Nick Heidfelds 1999 (41.6s) hillclimb record was beaten after Max Chilton in his McMurtry Spéirling fan car tore it to shreds at 39.08s in 2022!
Sir Stirling Moss was one of the founding patrons of the Festival of Speed, and a regular competitor at the Revival.
One Summer, King Edward VII turned his back on the traditional morning suit, and donned a linen suit and Panama hat. Thus the Glorious Goodwood trend was born.
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.
The oldest existing rules for the game were drawn up for a match between the 2nd Duke and a neighbour
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).
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!
Dido is traditionally for the host, but every single room is designed with personal touches from Cindy Leveson and the Duke & Duchess of Richmond.
Found on the lawn at FOS is the finest concours d'elegance in the world, where the most beautiful cars are presented
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.
The bricks lining the Festival of Speed startline are 100 years old and a gift from the Indianapolis Speedway "Brickyard" in 2011 to mark their centenary event!
For safety reasons F1 cars can no longer do official timed runs so instead perform stunning demonstrations!
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.
From 2005 to present there has been a demonstration area for the rally cars at the top of the hill
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
One Summer, King Edward VII turned his back on the traditional morning suit, and donned a linen suit and Panama hat. Thus the Glorious Goodwood trend was born.
Leading women of business, sport, fashion and media, take part in one of the most exciting horseracing events in the world.
Leading women of business, sport, fashion and media, take part in one of the most exciting horseracing events in the world.
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.
Sir Stirling Moss was one of the founding patrons of the Festival of Speed, and a regular competitor at the Revival.
Flying training began at Goodwood in 1940 when pilots were taught operational flying techniques in Hurricanes and Spitfires.
A 20m woodland rue, from Halnaker to Lavant, was planted by our forestry teams & volunteers, featuring native species like oak, beech, & hornbeam
The oldest existing rules for the game were drawn up for a match between the 2nd Duke and a neighbour
The Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
One of the greatest golfers of all time, James Braid designed Goodwood’s iconic Downland course, opened in 1914.
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.
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 Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
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!
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
One of the greatest golfers of all time, James Braid designed Goodwood’s iconic Downland course, opened in 1914.
The iconic spitfire covered almost 43,000 kilometres and visited over 20 countries on its epic journey and currently resides at our Aerodrome.
As the private clubhouse for all of the Estate’s sporting and social members, it offers personal service and a relaxed atmosphere
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 oldest existing rules for the game were drawn up for a match between the 2nd Duke and a neighbour
The oldest existing rules for the game were drawn up for a match between the 2nd Duke and a neighbour
"En la rose je fleurie" or "Like the rose, I flourish" is part of the Richmond coat of Arms and motto
Testament to the 19th-century fascination with ancient Egypt and decorative opulence. The room is richly detailed with gilded cartouches, sphinxes, birds and crocodiles.
Porsche pulled the wraps off its most powerful, mad-as-a-box-of-frogs 911 to date at Goodwood Festival of Speed this summer: the 911 GT2 RS. With a price tag of £207,506, and limited availability, plus the increasing propensity of any limited-edition 911 to travel only one way in value, this car may turn out to be the most expensive second-hand 911 so far, too.
This may be the ultimate poster boy for the eco brigade: a car that can power a house’s electrical supply, rather than the home powering the car
What’s more, we easily pushed the price north of £240,000 with endless fiddling on the online configurator, taking the cost even higher with the addition of the performance-boosting Weissach Package, which adds such fripperies as a roll-cage, just to be on the safe side. You can smother the interior in carbon, have the dials in Guards Red, paint the climate-control panel bright blue, add IsoFix points in the front passenger seat, get the 12 o’clock steering wheel marking in red… and before you know it, it’s lunchtime.
But this car wouldn’t be a Porsche if the truly staggering price tag were not matched by an equally eyebrow-raising power output. The twin-turbocharged petrol engine develops 700 horsepower and the rear wheels of the 911 GT2 RS are capable of producing 500,000 watts of power. Now here’s an electrical discussion about a car we’re all keen to delve into. Bless Porsche: while the rest of the world debates the recharging time of a Nissan Leaf and how much energy the battery is capable of storing, Porsche has built a car for which the talking point is how much electricity the rear wheels can generate. This may be the ultimate poster boy for the eco brigade: a car that can power a house’s electrical supply, rather than the home powering the car.
To give you an example of just how powerful the GT2 RS is, consider the following, worked out by Goodwood Estate’s sustainability manager (you don’t often hear “GT2 RS” and “sustainability” in the same sentence): 500,000 W means that if we took the car on a splendid jaunt from London to Goodwood at the peak revs required for maximum horsepower all the way (wishful thinking) it would generate 500 kWh. That means the Porsche's engine, via the rear wheels, could power the entire Goodwood Racecourse (413 kWh), or Goodwood House (183.4 kWh) and The Kennels (143 kWh) combined. It could certainly light up the entire hillclimb at Goodwood, given that one new light bulb uses 15 watts. The future’s bright.
This article is taken from the Goodwood magazine, Autumn 2017 issue
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