BMW drive to Goodwood for 75th birthday celebrations

BMW is celebrating 75 years of automobiles this summer, and in fitting
celebration the company will be marking this important birthday in exciting
style at this year's Goodwood Revival meeting over the weekend of September 3 -
5.

It was on the morning of 9 July 1929 that BMW announced in full-page
advertisements that it had started business as an automobile manufacturer. A
small car - the 3/15 - made its debut in Berlin. Within seven years BMW had
progressed from these humble roots to offering a fully-fledged sporting
roadster, the BMW 328. Having won all the major races of the late 1930's, the
328's innovative engine was recreated by Bristol after the war. The 328 and
many Bristol-powered sports cars achieved tremendous success right up to the
late 1950's.

Staged at Goodwood's historic and beautifully restored motor circuit, the
Revival is the world's most popular historic motor racing event and the only
sporting event in the world set entirely to a period theme. The meeting will
draw over 100,000 people, many in period costume, to watch an action packed
weekend of racing, air shows and theatre. Not least among the races will be a
race devoted only to BMW history. The Madgwick Cup will see more than 30
exciting yet rarely seen BMW or BMW-powered sports racing cars battling it out
around the picturesque West Sussex track. Even the great Sir Stirling Moss
will take part, in a 1950 Frazer-Nash BMW.

The Goodwood Motor Circuit was the spiritual home of British motor racing from
its creation in 1948 until its closure as a contemporary circuit for racing in
1966. Lovingly restored, the circuit plays host to the Goodwood Revival every
year - the only motor racing that now takes place there. Dubbed by the Daily
Telegraph as 'a magical step back in time' the Revival is a chance for the
whole family to experience motor racing as it used to be in a setting recreated
specifically for the purpose and in exacting period detail.

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