Friday, January 05, 2024

the host of Goodwood, was explaining on the Ford CEO podcast, that his grandfather dropped out of Oxford when his brother died in WW1, to the horror of his royal parents, to build Bentleys, and race motorcycles

 He went to work at Bentley on the shop floor, known as Freddy, and didn't tell anyone that he was Lord Richmond. 

He went onto design and race sports cars. He won at Brooklands. Some of his cars are still in the family collection. 

He went on to establish an airfield on the family estate, then put a race track around it for the pilots. 

The current host, Charles, left high school at 16, and didn't go to university, but instead, met up with some film school students in London going to National Film School, and one was Stanley Kubrick, and got a job working for Kubrick in pre production stills photography.

(I'd forgotten that I'd learned that and posted it in 2017 https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/04/goodwood-festival-of-speed-and-goodwood.html

I am surprised at how much I've posted about Stanley Kubrick https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?q=Kubrick

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-duke-of-richmond-becoming-automotive-royalty/id1647604558?i=1000581580699

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