Building on the success of Goodwood

The gallery has made me see what's possible if I can find really interesting and current content to publish on Raadius. I thought the big draw might be driving techniques and great driving roads. It probably might be, but only if I can include as many interesting visuals as possible.

It's fascinating to see how many US visitors there were too. This is a great opportunity to share a bit of UK driving culture with people around the world. Utilising motoring forums such as Pistonheads, more and more people from all over the world are now visiting the site. Now I've got to find other forums which cater to the driving and motoring enthusiast and spread the word whenever the opportunity arises!

Goodwood

Wow.

It's amazing how far a little faith and perseverance can carry you. I almost didn't post any images from this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed on any fora, because of the high quality of some of the images a few other people had posted, but my wife encouraged me to do it.

But the images I captured, plus some extraordinary footage of a Pagani Zonda pirouetting into a barrier, have driven more traffic through Raadius in the last three days than has been since the entire three months since its launch. Now my links and images/video are appearing on fora all over the web.

I wish there were more hours in a day...

Goodwood itself was extraordinary. I've never, ever seen or heard so many beautiful cars in my life. And they weren't just on a roped-off stand, but being absolutely caned out on the track! And when they weren't being driven, they were on display, for all people to walk up to, photograph, and climb into - and not a barrier to be seen around even the most priceless classics.

Anyway, that event, and the invigorating drive back home along some great roads, had really inspired me to crack on with the site. The results of the past few days have very much been worth the very late nights and hard work. I can't wait to get back to it tomorrow!

Back at it

After the drama of exchanging my foreign licence for a British one, I now have the pleasure of using my very own car to explore the UK by road. I can now experience the joy of driving at a time and duration of my own choosing, in a car of my own choosing. No more wondering if I'll get a Fiat Punto.

Now that I have my own car, and I've had the pleasure of taking it out to some very fine roads, my interest in Raadius has been renewed. I thought some of my site's driving techniques were a little to elementary for many of my readers, but after going into a blind left-hand sweeper, and seeing someone enthusiastically coming the other way using a far too much of my half of the road (and having to adjust his line to avoid hitting me) I see that there might be a lot of Raadius visitors who could take some of the driving techniques to heart.

June 25 sees me travelling to Goodwood for the Festival of Speed for the first time, and I look forward to seeing what other British petrolheads get up to. It also gives me plenty of content with which to update the site! There's still so much to do, but since anything worth doing is worth doing properly, there's nothing for it, except to crack on.

My own BMW, challenging/fun roads, and a nation full of petrol heads... the Raadius project is definitely something worth doing. And doing well.