LOGIC dictates that it simply can’t get much better. Each year it does.

Revved up, glammed up and full up since 1998, the stunning Goodwood Revival returned to the historic and picturesque motor racing circuit in the West Sussex countryside near Chichester last weekend for three more days brim full of vintage nostalgia, revelry, reenactment, class and drama on and off the race track, and this year maybe more than just a smattering of rain from the heavens.

Yet even Saturday’s deluge failed to dampen the spirits of the well-dressed droves of people who converged on Goodwood’s busy ‘streets’ and paddocks with refreshing zeal and anticipation having doubtless counted down the previous 12 months since they were here last.

Such is the consistently high quality of the event with its dream-like and surreal sense of occasion that repeat visits are undoubtedly a major factor in the Revival’s enormous and continuing success, with it attracting thousands upon thousands of people each year from all over the UK, across Europe, and even the United States.

It seems people will head for their fix of nostalgic glamour through hell and high water, which is pretty appropriate given the torrential rain on Saturday which would doubtless have washed away many a lesser event.

Friday was cloudy with sunny intervals, Sunday was majestically sunny. All three days were a sensational reflection of life in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s no matter the weather.

If anything, the heavy rain on Saturday at least added to the excitement on the race track. There were thrills and spills aplenty in the slippery conditions as the vintage two and four-wheel battles were as keen as ever, perhaps making up a little for many a pretty dress or beehive hairdo ending up a little worse for wear. Every thick black cloud and all that.

Off the track, the Revival has everything. Glitz, glamour and pzazz are in endless supply, as are the brilliant actors who give there all in myriad guises, from the gorgeous regulars the Glam Cabs Girls to the jivers and bikers of the 50s and from the England football throng marking the 50th aniversary of our nation’s famous World Cup win in 1966 to charming and quirky tea ladies, flower sellers and grid girls.

And all of this is perfectly set to revving car engines in the paddock and the whizzing wasps that seem to belt round the track on a regular basis.

And it’s ridiculously easy to get swept along with the euphoria of the occasion and immerse yourself into a bygone era. The attention to detail that is synonymous with a classy place like Goodwood is second to none, arguably highlighted by the thunderous Memorial Flight flypast, the majestic Lancaster bomber still turning admiring heads nearly 80 years on.

With so many men resplendent in flyers’ jackets, Army uniforms, sharp suits of spivs, bikers gear and mechanics’ uniforms and the ladies a sumptuous mix of Sixties mini-skirted style and wartime finery complete with the obligatory steamed stockings, it seems the Goowood Revival will never go out of style.