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Some great news for those of us that think a smartphone isn’t an essential asset:
https://www.goodwood.com/help/digital-ticketing/
Pity really, but clearly I won’t ever be going to Goodwood again.
Good on them, I say. Trying to reduce their carbon footprint should be commended, not met with derision.
So you think we all should be forced to buy a smartphone, Glad?
Next you’ll be saying get rid of cash.
I can tell them the best thing they can do to reduce their carbon footprint.
For all those in charge to be castrated / sterilised.Value Is EverythingGoodwood say in that piece for anyone without a smartphone should phone their office.
Have you tried that AP?
Just wondered are they giving an alternative?
Value Is EverythingMany years since I was a member / went to Goodwood.
If I was one now I wouldn’t be getting a smartphone for their benefit.
Reducing their carbon footprint is an excuse to cut what costs them more.Value Is EverythingIve got into the google wallet ticket thing for sports events for past few years , tbh iam no IT whiz but it works pretty well and very straightforward .
I think owners of Goodwood also run a motor racing circuit next to it or nearby so iam sure they not bothered about climate change and carbon footprints at all , its just easier and cheaper for them .
Maybe those classic racing cars are now powered by clean generated electric engines so i stand to be corrected .I had a laugh about Goodwood of all places trying to “reduce its carbon footprint”, as Hellcat points out. And I am sure it will make a lot of difference when the Chinese government builds another power station.
I haven’t been to Goodwood for a long time but the new arrangements wouldn’t personally affect me. I do have a smartphone and I have used e-tickets to gain admission to racecourses before.
I take issue with Goodwood’s suggestion it will speed up entry to the course. I reckon it is more likely to do the opposite. Not everyone gets their e-ticket ready, so have to spend time finding the app on their phone. Then the code has to be scanned, which isn’t always straightforward.
However, as Ginger pointed out the FAQs does appear to have an option for anyone who does not want to use a smartphone, so it doesn’t look like anyone who doesn’t have one is going to be excluded.
It is the same with other sporting events. I was sent my e-ticket for the Open Golf via the relevant app a few days ago. It worked OK at Hoylake two years ago.
On the subject of e-tickets, I find it a bit odd how whenever I apply for a Racing TV club day, I have the ticket emailed to me but with instructions that it must be printed out because only a printed copy will be accepted. Doesn’t that defeat the point of an e-ticket? I have never bothered to print it out and the electronic version has always been accepted anyway!
The email always reminds me to bring along my metal RTV membership badge which must also be shown to gain admission. No one has ever asked to see it.
I have mentioned all of this to RTV twice now but they haven’t replied.
“I think owners of Goodwood also run a motor racing circuit”
Yeah – I agree that certainly makes this attempt to cut emissions seem hypocritical.
“Reducing their carbon footprint is an excuse to cut what costs them more.”
It’s often overlooked that the two go hand-in-hand: being greener is often cheaper. But, of course, it isn’t in the interests of the handful of billionaires who own the rightwing media to point this out.
“I am sure it will make a lot of difference when the Chinese government builds another power station.”
A facile argument which has been addressed many, many times over the years:
And, if the Guardian is too “woke” for you, NASA produced this:
Human Activity in China and India Dominates the Greening of Earth, NASA Study Shows
George Monbiot. :wacko:. Even by the standards of “The Guardian”.
If NASA is correct, it begs an obvious question of why the West seems intent on wrecking itself with Net Zero if the earth is getting greener anyway?
Tony Blair made a rare sensible intervention on this very point quite recently.Admittedly it has strayed a long way from AP being faced with a bit more difficulty getting into Goodwood. But the statement about the organisation wanting to reduce its carbon footprint is preaching, virtue signalling and the height of hypocrisy.
Why can’t people just pay in cash on the gate anyway? Southport FC reintroduced that simple method during the season before last. Attendances have gone up by 20% despite the team being rubbish for most of last season.
And how will it work with different types of ticket? Usually racegoers have to display a lapel badge to go into the Richmond Enclosure.
Imagine not worrying about the future of life on Earth.
Anyway, I’m lea ing it there: this is not the appropriate thread for climate change discussion.
Just another way to alienate long time racegoers.
I will be up in the Lake District towards the end of June, the meeting at Cartmel on June 27th would have fitted in well but looking at an advanced ticket price of £59 soon knocked that on the head.
this may sound silly but (due to my dementia brought on by my boxing) i dont have a smart phone as i dont know how to use one.
Carbon Footprint and Net Zero would be good names for racehorses, given that they spend a great deal of time cocconed in gas-guzzling horseboxes trundling around our brown and pleasant land
Trained in Lambourn, a winner at Perth…delicious irony
It was £50 for an ordinary card at Aintree last night, all because of a concert “headlined” by something named The Red Rum Club.
To be fair, I don’t know if cheaper tickets where available in advance. But it was a bit tough on anyone who just wanted an evening at the racing.
Still, I suppose if the money Aintree makes out of the meeting helps to keep down the prices for the Thursday in April then it is worth it. The track now stands idle until Old Roan day.
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