to those concerned that this venue can't offer actual "racing" for us, I think what they've done here is partially to say thanks and strengthen the partnership between Kazanori and the organizers of the Goodwood events, and partially to provide more of a glorified photo mode location.
It's sort of a hybrid between a photo location and a track location.
That might mean it's counted among the 37 locations figure we've heard about, but I don't think it was a mistake to do this. As MastrGT said, it "brings class" to the release and was a very natural fit and easy to reproduce because PD staff very likely follow Kaz to these events and were walking around taking pictures anyway.
In other words, I don't think that including this small location (relatively speaking) kept them from including another thing we'd want more.
On the possibility of Pikes Peak at release -- I'd say not likely because there is a guy at the PSN forum who lives near there and would spot the white vans of Japanese taking pics of the area. He has yet to report anything worthwhile...
But I would LOVE to see a fully paved Pikes, and one partially paved and one with full dirt, to preserve what history has now erased.