Leigh’s Diecast Diary

Those of you who visited Goodwood at the weekend must have got very wet! I’ve been to 14 of the 15 Festivals of Speed, and never seen conditions like I saw over the last couple of days. It made Glastonbury look like a desert!

On Saturday the weather was fine in the morning, but there was a massive thunderstorm at lunchtime. I was working in our red vending trailer, while lots of punters sheltered underneath its canopy. You could also barely hear anyone who actually was trying to buy something at that time because of the noise of the rain and hail drumming on the roof. It carried on raining for the rest of the day.

Then yesterday there must have been about 20 minutes all day when it didn’t rain. The vending area was a complete swamp by the time we packed up for the day. It was easy to know when Hamilton went up the hill because the rest of Goodwood was completely deserted; everyone was lining the course to cheer the new British hero on his run. Forget Mansell Mania, we have Hamilton Hysteria! It would be fantastic if Minichamps did a Hamilton Goodwood special complete with wet tyres and arm raised waving at the crowd.

I also made sure we had a TV in our trailer so we could watch the Donington Moto GP. Stoner’s made the same sort of impact in that series as Hamilton has in F1 this year. You get the feeling that you’re watching the changing of the guard as the two future giants of these two disciplines come to the fore. With Rossi only finishing fourth and Stoner now having won five out of eight races, it looks like Ducati might have their first Moto GP World Champion this year.

Anyway, I do actually have some diecast news today as well as relaying my Goodwood exploits. We received Premium Classic’s 1:43 1940s Porsche transporter truck (PRE12452), as well as a couple of new signed items from Jason.

These are James Toseland’s 1:10 2006 Honda Fireblade (GY13718S), and the Roy Salvadori signed 1:43 Le Mans Aston Martin two car set of his 1959 winning DBR1 and the 2006 007 DBR9 (PD008S).