With such high octane hijinks, and more burn-outs as the day wore on, it seems fair to say that Goodwood has restored glamour to a sagging category.

After Goodwood, even the biggest show in the calendar, Geneva, seems, you know, a bit static.

For all that, the manufacturer pavilions at Goodwood were very splendid and crammed with interest even if they were heavily accented with AMG brawn, hot and hottest RS derivatives of Audis, and various other bling metal.

Among the monsters, some sprites. Renault, for instance, were displaying the rear-mounted engine of the rear wheel drive 2014 Twingo, which was shown off in the 90 bhp Sport version.

This is surely one of the greatly intriguing non-MINI small cars to hit the road in 2014 (it’s not quite out yet), and I can’t wait to try it.

At the end of the day, having walked miles and miles in bright sun, with sweat seeping into my jacket, I realised that the improbability of Porsche setting up in a steeply sloping field full of rabbits might be the clue to the event’s success.

Apparently it takes six weeks to build these multi-storey pavilions, completely level on sloping ground. They look permanent and feel solid and are as large as a central London main dealership. But Barnett showed me a photo of the site a few weeks hence, returned completely to the South Downs landscape and the rabbits. Very hard to believe but true.