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Video: How to push the Mercedes F1 W04 up the Festival of Speed Hill

10th May 2020

Ben Miles

First published July 16th 2015. Anthony Davidson is no stranger to the hillclimb at Goodwood, having taken various Mercedes-AMG F1 and Toyota WEC machinery up our 1.16-miles ...

This year the 2014 World Endurance Champion attacked the Hill with a great deal of gusto, both in the Mercedes-Benz W04, which we saw at Member’s Meeting in the same hands, and his World Endurance Championship winning Toyota TS040.

Today we’re sharing two runs up the Hill in the Mercedes-AMG F1 car as peddled in the series by Nico Rosberg and World Champ Lewis Hamilton.

We don’t put a stopwatch near Formula 1 cars at the Festival of Speed presented by Mastercard any more, but we at GRR have an inkling that one of these two runs could well have pushed Nick Heidfeld‘s long-standing record of 41.6 seconds very close indeed.

It wouldn’t be the first time an untimed run has raised a few eyebrows in the office, as in 2014 Formula E racer and co-WEC champion Sebastien Buemi had a good go at the Hill in a Red Bull.

We’ll never truly know just how fast our Ant’ was, or how fast he could have gone had the stopwatch been running, but we do know that the timed shootout saw a winning run of just 44.9-seconds by Olly Clark in his ‘Gobstopper II’ Subaru Impreza. Maybe the record is ripe for breaking…

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Formula 1

Video: How to push the Mercedes F1 W04 up the Festival of Speed Hill

F1 cars aren't timed at the Festival any more, but if they were...

10th May 2020

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Video: Driving a Mercedes F1 car flat-out round Goodwood

Goodwood is fast enough in a Fiesta, let alone in a Mercedes F1 car…

10th May 2020

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Video: Onboard Nico Rosberg's seriously fast hillclimb run – FOS 2015

Rosberg had already done some doughnuts, so now it was time for a quick run...

25th April 2020

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Video: How fast can a Toyota TS040 Le Mans car go at FOS?

The answer is, of course, very, very fast indeed…

25th April 2020

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Mercedes-AMG to run newest F1 car ever at FOS

Hamilton and Bottas's W10 will be the first F1 car with the Halo to run on the Hill...

24th June 2021

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Video: Very sideways Hesketh F1 run up Festival of Speed Hill

Big, cold tyres and a very angry Cosworth DFV…

18th May 2020

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Nick Mason at the wheel of the 1939 Auto Union Type D…

02nd June 2020

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