The Goodwood Festival of Speed has its roots in the early 1990s and is the vision of Lord March.
Lord March, also known as the Duke of Richmond, wanted to revive motor racing at Goodwood. However, reopening the Goodwood Circuit, which had been closed since 1966, proved to be a difficult task. Instead, he came up with a new concept: a celebration of motor racing history on the grounds of the estate itself.
It's a lovely hot day, the sun is shining and I’m in the McLaren secret garden at the Goodwood Festival of Speed with Rob Melville, director of Design at McLaren. As I finish off an extremely good chocolate mousse we get stuck into the reason for being here. The launch of the new McLaren GT.
The Duke of Richmond has today formally opened the 2019 Goodwood Festival of Speed and launched Airspeeder – the thrilling airborne motorsport for a new generation of race fans – by dropping the flag on the world’s first full-size quadcopter racing event.
Staged every summer since 1993, the Goodwood Festival of Speed presented by MasterCard is the world’s largest automotive garden party; set against the spectacular backdrop of Goodwood House in West Sussex. Over 600 cars and motorcycles spanning the phenomenal history of motoring and motor sport take part with some of the most legendary figures from the sport as well as international celebrities regularly attending.
Mahindra Racing’s Nick Heidfeld will return to Goodwood for the Festival of Speed this week in a bid to make history and set the open-wheel electric benchmark for the hillclimb course.
Heidfeld is currently the course record holder at Goodwood after setting an impressive time of 41.6 seconds in a McLaren MP4/13 in 1999. If successful, Heidfeld will be the first driver to hold two records at Goodwood.
Goodwood Festival of Speed is delighted to announce that the car Bugatti call “the world’s most powerful, fastest, most luxurious and most exclusive production super sports car,” will be making its UK dynamic debut at the world’s most luxurious motoring celebration.
After its global premiere at this year’s Geneva International Motor Show, Festival of Speed visitors will to be able to get up close to this incredible car, named after Monegasque racing driver Louis Chiron, as it prepares to tear up the infamous Goodwood hill.
His Royal Highness Prince Harry made his Goodwood Motor Circuit debut today (Saturday, February 15), as part of a track day run by the Royal Foundation Endeavour Fund.
After being greeted by Lord March, owner of Goodwood Motor Circuit, Prince Harry completed a handful of adrenaline-fueled laps of the historic circuit in a classic Aston Martin DB4, before another high-speed run, this time in a Lamborghini Gallardo.
Former World Touring Car champion Rob Huff is the latest star name to confirm his attendance at the Goodwood 72nd Members’ Meeting on 29-30 March, 2014.
The 34-year-old Englishman, who claimed his WTCC title in 2012, will race in the Gerry Marshall Trophy for Group 1 touring cars and also take part in the weekend’s high-speed demonstration of turbocharged Formula 1 machinery.
The sights, sounds and smells of rallying’s most exciting era will sweep through Goodwood Motor Circuit during the 72nd Members’ Meeting on March 29-30 as the magic of Group B comes to the fore.
From 1982-86, Group B was rallying and made world champions Hannu Mikkola, Stig Blomqvist and Juha Kankkunen into international superstars as flame-spitting Audis, Peugeots and Lancias swept all before them on the world stage.
The words Glorious Goodwood have become synonymous with horse racing on the South Downs. In the minds of motor racing afficionados, they can equally be applied to their sport at the historic circuit at the foot of Trundle Hill.
Closed in 1966, the motor racing circuit assumed a new lease of life in 1998 when the Earl of March, after some huge battles, put on the first Revival Meeting. This was held over three days, with restricted entry to all those cars and motor bikes that had raced at the circuit between 1948 and 1966.
