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".
King Edward VII (who came almost every year) famously dubbed Glorious Goodwood “a garden party with racing tacked on”.
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.
Testament to the 19th-century fascination with ancient Egypt and decorative opulence. The room is richly detailed with gilded cartouches, sphinxes, birds and crocodiles.
Our gin uses wild-grown botanicals sourced from the estate, and is distilled with mineral water naturally chalk-filtered through the South Downs.
The exquisite mirror in the Ballroom of Goodwood House it so big they had to raise the ceiling to get it inside!
As the private clubhouse for all of the Estate’s sporting and social members, it offers personal service and a relaxed atmosphere
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.
Every single item from plates to pictures has its own home within the Lodge, with our butler (James) has his own "bible" to reference exactly what is out of place.
Inspired by the legendary racer, Masten Gregory, who famously leapt from the cockpit of his car before impact when approaching Woodcote Corner in 1959.
The Fiat S76 or "Beast of Turin" is a Goodwood favourite and can usually be heard before it is seen at #FOS
Sir Stirling Moss was one of the founding patrons of the Festival of Speed, and a regular competitor at the Revival.
Flying jetpacks doesn't have to just be a spectator sport at FOS, you can have a go at our very own Aerodrome!
FOS Favourite Mad Mike Whiddett can be caught melting tyres in his incredible collection of cars (and trucks) up the hillclimb
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!
Sir Stirling Moss was one of the founding patrons of the Festival of Speed, and a regular competitor at the Revival.
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
Whoa Simon! A horse so determined and headstrong, he not only won the 1883 Goodwood Cup by 20 lengths, but couldn't be stopped and carried on running over the top of Trundle hill
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.
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
Leading women of business, sport, fashion and media, take part in one of the most exciting horseracing events in the world.
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 iconic spitfire covered almost 43,000 kilometres and visited over 20 countries on its epic journey and currently resides at our Aerodrome.
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.
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.
According to Head Butler at Goodwood House David Edney "Class, sophistication and discretion".
The iconic spitfire covered almost 43,000 kilometres and visited over 20 countries on its epic journey and currently resides at our Aerodrome.
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.
One of the greatest golfers of all time, James Braid designed Goodwood’s iconic Downland course, opened in 1914.
Flying training began at Goodwood in 1940 when pilots were taught operational flying techniques in Hurricanes and Spitfires.
The iconic spitfire covered almost 43,000 kilometres and visited over 20 countries on its epic journey and currently resides at our Aerodrome.
The Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
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.
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.
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 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.
One of the greatest golfers of all time, James Braid designed Goodwood’s iconic Downland course, opened in 1914.
Flying jetpacks doesn't have to just be a spectator sport at FOS, you can have a go at our very own Aerodrome!
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!
The famous fighter ace, who flew his last sortie from Goodwood Aerodrome, formerly RAF Westhampnett has a statue in his honor within the airfield.
Our gin uses wild-grown botanicals sourced from the estate, and is distilled with mineral water naturally chalk-filtered through the South Downs.
The iconic spitfire covered almost 43,000 kilometres and visited over 20 countries on its epic journey and currently resides at our Aerodrome.
Inspired by the legendary racer, Masten Gregory, who famously leapt from the cockpit of his car before impact when approaching Woodcote Corner in 1959.
The iconic spitfire covered almost 43,000 kilometres and visited over 20 countries on its epic journey and currently resides at our Aerodrome.
Goodwood’s pigs are a mix of two rare breeds (Gloucester Old Spots and Saddlebacks) plus the Large White Boar.
The Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
Whoa Simon! A horse so determined and headstrong, he not only won the 1883 Goodwood Cup by 20 lengths, but couldn't be stopped and carried on running over the top of Trundle hill
With forward-looking manufacturers pushing agricultural technology into new and exciting territories, what does the future hold for the humble tractor?
Words by James Collard
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We’ve all heard about Tesla’s driverless cars, but driverless tractors, controlled by the farmer using his smart phone? Who knew? The driverless tractor – and another designed to run on methane, which farming produces naturally in abundance – are part of a new wave of agricultural technologies emerging from CNH Industrial.
With the Agnelli family’s Exor group as its largest shareholder, CNH Industrial is in the same stable as Fiat Chrysler and Ferrari, headed up by Gianni Agnelli’s grandson, John Elkann. The idea that the dashing Agnelli-Elkann clan should know a thing or two about tractors might come as a surprise to some. But the connection between making cars and making tractors has often been a close one. The Agnellis founded Fiat Trattori in Turin in 1919, just 20 years after launching the Fiat car-making business. Renault only stepped away from making tractors a decade ago, while in the 1930s Hitler tasked Ferdinand Porsche with developing a “people’s tractor” or Volksschlepper at the same time as his new Volkswagen. Our own Aston Martin was owned by tractor manufacturer David Brown for many years, while back in Italy, the business founded as Lamborghini Trattori only moved into making sports cars as part of Ferruccio Lamborghini’s furious rivalry with Enzo Ferrari.
These concepts serve to stretch our designers – to get them to look beyond what is in production today or even tomorrow
Given that it’s the Italian-American offspring of both Fiat’s and Ford’s tractor-making businesses, CNH Industrial has impeccable automotive DNA. But wedded to that is the farm-tech know-how of the former New Holland Machine Company, founded in 1895 in New Holland, Pennsylvania by Abram Zimmerman – a brilliantly inventive Mennonite blacksmith who helped transform American farming. But for all the diverse richness of its pedigree, CNH Industrial is very much future-focused – and bent on radically transforming the way we farm. Witness this driverless tractor, the Case IH, and its methane-fuelled sibling – the fruit of what CNH Industrial’s design director David Wilkie describes as “our focus on three key megatrends: automation, digitisation and alternative fuels”. That, and an R&D investment of more than a billion dollars last year alone.
“These concepts serve to stretch our designers – to get them to look beyond what is in production today or even tomorrow,” Wilkie explains, and to forge “innovative ideas which can then be applied to production machines”. Wilkie acknowledges the ongoing parallels with developments in the automotive industry, with its interest in driverless and eco-friendly technologies, although he argues that we’re likely to get accustomed to driverless tractors working our fields more rapidly than we are to driverless cars on our roads. And he goes on to mention the rather more complex tasks these tractors will perform, such as distinguishing crops from weeds and controlling not just their own movements but those of the equipment they’re towing.
It’s very rare in industrial design to be presented with a blank sheet of paper
It’s all very impressive, brainy stuff. But you also sense that just as car designers have fun with concept cars, the design team got a kick out of envisaging an autonomous tractor. “It’s very rare in industrial design to be presented with a blank sheet of paper,” say Wilkie, “and that is exactly what we had when designing the cabless autonomous concept tractor. So one of the main challenges was delivering a striking, eye-catching design that would grab people’s attention – that encapsulated the groundbreaking nature of this technology. Breaking free of those long-held conventions was both a challenge and a fantastic opportunity.” And who said farming couldn’t be fun?
This article was taken from the Summer 2019 edition of the Goodwood Magazine.
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