FOS Favourite Mad Mike Whiddett can be caught melting tyres in his incredible collection of cars (and trucks) up the hillclimb
Legend of Goodwood's golden racing era and Le Mans winner Roy Salvadori once famously said "give me Goodwood on a summer's day and you can forget the rest".
The first ever horsebox was used from Goodwood to Doncaster for the 1836 St. Leger. Elis arrived fresh and easily won his owner a £12k bet.
Leading women of business, sport, fashion and media, take part in one of the most exciting horseracing events in the world.
Goodwood’s pigs are a mix of two rare breeds (Gloucester Old Spots and Saddlebacks) plus the Large White Boar.
"En la rose je fleurie" or "Like the rose, I flourish" is part of the Richmond coat of Arms and motto
The exquisite mirror in the Ballroom of Goodwood House it so big they had to raise the ceiling to get it inside!
Built in 1787 by celebrated architect James Wyatt to house the third Duke of Richmond’s prized fox hounds, The Kennels was known as one of the most luxurious dog houses in the world!
Mattresses and eiderdowns are stuffed with wool from the Goodwood Estate.
Our gin uses wild-grown botanicals sourced from the estate, and is distilled with mineral water naturally chalk-filtered through the South Downs.
Festival of Speed is our longest-standing Motorsport event, starting in 1993 when it opened to 25,00 people. We were expecting 2000!
Our replica of the famous motor show showcases the "cars of the future" in true Revival style
Spectate from the chicane at the Revival to see plenty of classic cars going sideways as they exit this infamous point of our Motor Circuit.
Legend of Goodwood's golden racing era and Le Mans winner Roy Salvadori once famously said "give me Goodwood on a summer's day and you can forget the rest".
Our replica of the famous motor show showcases the "cars of the future" in true Revival style
Legend of Goodwood's golden racing era and Le Mans winner Roy Salvadori once famously said "give me Goodwood on a summer's day and you can forget the rest".
King Edward VII (who came almost every year) famously dubbed Glorious Goodwood “a garden party with racing tacked on”.
The first public race meeting took place in 1802 and, through the nineteenth century, ‘Glorious Goodwood,’ as the press named it, became a highlight of the summer season
King Edward VII (who came almost every year) famously dubbed Glorious Goodwood “a garden party with racing tacked on”.
The red & yellow of the Racecourse can be traced back hundreds of years, even captured in our stunning Stubbs paintings in the Goodwood Collection
The first ever horsebox was used from Goodwood to Doncaster for the 1836 St. Leger. Elis arrived fresh and easily won his owner a £12k bet.
Festival of Speed is our longest-standing Motorsport event, starting in 1993 when it opened to 25,00 people. We were expecting 2000!
Testament to the 19th-century fascination with ancient Egypt and decorative opulence. The room is richly detailed with gilded cartouches, sphinxes, birds and crocodiles.
Goodwood Motor Circuit was officially opened in September 1948 when Freddie March, the 9th Duke and renowned amateur racer, tore around the track in a Bristol 400
The first ever round of golf played at Goodwood was in 1914 when the 6th Duke of Richmond opened the course on the Downs above Goodwood House.
The first ever round of golf played at Goodwood was in 1914 when the 6th Duke of Richmond opened the course on the Downs above Goodwood House.
The first ever round of golf played at Goodwood was in 1914 when the 6th Duke of Richmond opened the course on the Downs above Goodwood House.
The famous fighter ace, who flew his last sortie from Goodwood Aerodrome, formerly RAF Westhampnett has a statue in his honor within the airfield.
The first thing ever dropped at Goodwood was a cuddly elephant which landed in 1932 just as the 9th Duke of Richmonds passion for flying was taking off.
We have been host to many incredible film crews using Goodwood as a backdrop for shows like Downton Abbey, Hollywood Blockbusters like Venom: let there be Carnage and the Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Estate milk was once transformed into ice-creams, bombes, and syllabubs, and the Georgian ice house still stands in the grounds in front of Goodwood House.
Ensure you take a little time out together to pause and take in the celebration of all the hard work you put in will be a treasured memory.
The red & yellow of the Racecourse can be traced back hundreds of years, even captured in our stunning Stubbs paintings in the Goodwood Collection
The Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
The Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
The Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
Testament to the 19th-century fascination with ancient Egypt and decorative opulence. The room is richly detailed with gilded cartouches, sphinxes, birds and crocodiles.
The Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
Just beyond Goodwood House along the Hillclimb, the 2nd Dukes banqueting house was also known as "one of the finest rooms in England" (George Vertue 1747).
Easy boy! The charismatic Farnham Flyer loved to celebrate every win with a pint of beer. His Boxer dog, Grogger, did too and had a tendancy to steal sips straight from the glass.
Built in 1787 by celebrated architect James Wyatt to house the third Duke of Richmond’s prized fox hounds, The Kennels was known as one of the most luxurious dog houses in the world!
He’s a young man with lofty aspirations – and the raw talent to back them up. Meet Max Verstappen, the 20-year-old pretender to F1’s throne
Words by Philip Duncan
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He might only be 20 years old, but racing driver Max Verstappen’s career has already been marked by controversy. When it was announced that he would be racing in Formula 1 back in 2015, he made headlines across the world. How could someone so junior, too young to even obtain a road licence, be allowed to race the world’s fastest automobiles? So aghast were F1’s rule-makers that they subsequently raised the minimum age for a competitor to 18, but the law would be enforced too late to stop Verstappen, and aged just 17 years and 166 days, he became the youngest driver in nearly 70 years of grand prix history to compete in the season-opening race in Melbourne.
The records would not stop there: the youngest driver to lead a race; the youngest driver to record a fastest lap; the youngest to score points; the youngest to secure a podium; the youngest to start from pole position; and the youngest winner in history, too. It’s hardly surprising, then, that there’s more buzz surrounding Verstappen today than any other young man on the circuit. How he performs this season will define his career – and there are plenty out there who believe he has what it takes to be the next great racing star.
He has a lot of raw talent and he is only getting better with age
“We all know Max is an exceptional driver,” enthused Lewis Hamilton, fresh from sealing a fourth Formula 1 World Championship in Mexico last year. “He has a lot of raw talent and he is only going to get better with age. Red Bull have a World Champion in him, that’s for sure.” Verstappen may have competed in only three seasons, but he is already the obvious heir to Hamilton’s F1 throne. Fast, fearless, aggressive, confident – the sport has not seen the like of him since Hamilton himself first burst onto the scene back in 2007.
Their upbringings, however, could not have been more different. Hamilton, who was raised in a modest Stevenage council flat, would see his father Anthony work around the clock to cobble together enough money to go racing. For Verstappen, motorsport was in the genes. His mother Sophie raced karts; his father Jos was best known for playing understudy to Michael Schumacher at Benetton, and for miraculously surviving a pit-stop inferno at the 1994 German Grand Prix, when his car caught fire. The same couldn’t be said for his career. Jos was a journeyman F1 driver who started more than 100 grands prix, but would never trouble the top step of the podium.
“My father has been very, very important for my career,” Max explains. “He has helped me, he has supported me, and he even stopped racing so he could teach me everything he knows. Without him I would not be in this position.” Verstappen’s early experiences on the track began with kart racing (his father had a team) from the age of four and a half, and he has a confidence that comes from winning consistently from a young age. “I was quite competitive from eight years old,” he said last year. “You could see it in the national races. Out of about 70 races, I won 68, so there wasn’t much competition. I wondered how it would be when I went international, but I was still having good results, so I thought, ‘OK, this doesn’t look too bad.’”
Stopping school at 15, he admits, was a risk: “A lot of people in racing did the same. It didn’t work out and they had to go back to school and study again.” But for him, failure was never an option. “I didn’t want to go back to studying, so that was my motivation to do well.”
I didn’t want to go back to studying, so that was my motivation to do well.
Verstappen has gone on to ruffle the feathers of the established order with his thrill-a-minute driving, and has pushed the letter of the law like no other. So much so that Vettel drove calls for the governing body to clamp down on what he viewed as the Dutchman’s dangerous driving, and the so-called “Verstappen law” – which outlawed drivers from moving under braking – was introduced only to be swiftly abolished.
There have been other controversies, too. Yet nothing has affected his following. An estimated 30,000 Dutch fans crossed the Belgian border last year to cheer on their hero, while the sport’s bosses are cashing in on his popularity by closing in on a deal to take F1 racing back to Holland for the first time in more than three decades. He has also won the journalist-voted FIA Personality of the Year award for the last three years.
“It must be because I’m a great guy,” he says with a smile, never one to hide his light under a bushel. “I’m always straightforward and honest, and that’s very important.”
Verstappen ended the 2017 campaign with a bang – securing two victories from the last six races – while also agreeing an impressive new Red Bull deal earning him in the region of £20 million a year. “I don’t know what challenges will face me this year – if I did I’d go on the stock market straight away,” he says. “But hopefully we can continue where we left off last season – that’s why I signed a new contract with Red Bull.”
Can he take the challenge to Hamilton and add the title of the sport’s youngest World Champion to his record-busting resume? “Last year we had our difficult periods, but I saw how hard the team was working to improve, so it gives me a lot of confidence that we can achieve great things together,” Verstappen ominously replies. “I am positive – so let’s wait and see.”
One thing’s for sure: Hamilton will be watching with intent.
This article is taken from the Goodwood magazine, Spring 2018 issue
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