Goodwood Festival of Speed
The Goodwood Festival of Speed ( FoS ) is a summer annual since 1993 motor sports event in the grounds of Goodwood House, Goodwood near Chichester in West Sussex, England. The organizer is the motorsport enthusiast Charles Gordon - Lennox, Earl of March and Kinrara, better known as Lord March. It is the world's largest event of its kind
Prehistory
The first "Motor Sport Event " at Goodwood was a private mountain race, which in 1936 hosted the racers Frederick Gordon - Lennox, 9.Duke of Richmond and grandfather of the present Lord March, on his property.
In the late 1930s, the British Air Ministry had commandeered near Westhampnett land by the Duke of Richmond, to build an alternate landing site for the RAF Tangmere airfield. After the early 1940s, the first Hawker Hurricane associations had moved to Westhampnett, a ring road was built of concrete, which was later replaced by asphalt due to the wet soil. Two squadron leader was already in use at the time the ring road for private races in their MGs. Had served as the airfield after the war and been widely reflected on the reconstruction of airfields to race tracks ( Silverstone, Boreham, Turnberry, Davidstow ), the Duke followed the proposal of one of the squadron leader and built the round course as a race track, the Goodwood Circuit, from. On September 18, 1948, the first race was held. Over the years, the track was the venue for numerous races. Due to the ever higher speeds, the route was no longer sufficient safety standards from 1966. The racing was therefore set after the last race on July 2, 1966.
Race
The Festival of Speed is more a tribute to the motor sport as a serious race, but which forms the background of the event. It is, unlike the Goodwood Revival, not on the track, but on a mountain route before Goodwood House and a rally track in the woods instead. The Sunday Times calls it " a cross between the Grand Prix of Monaco and Royal Ascot ."
On display are racing and sports cars, racing motorcycles and rally cars from all eras of motorsport history - from pre-war models to modern Formula 1 cars, as well as many current and former racing aces (2007: Stirling Moss, Stig Blomqvist, Phil Hill, Jochen Mass, Lewis Hamilton and many, many more). What makes the Festival of Speed is that visitors can enter all the paddock throughout the event, to see the cars and talk to the drivers.
The race is held in the form of a mountain race. The route runs 1.16 miles ( 1.86 km ) up a hill and has nine curves. Juan Pablo Montoya is cited to by the Sunday Times: "The Narrowest, bumpiest, least grippy course I've ever driven, and I absolutely love it ." ( The narrowest, buckligste and bidding the least traction circuit I 've ever driven, and I really love them ).
The track record is held by Nick Heidfeld on a McLaren -Mercedes MP4/13 41.6 seconds ( 1999).
Since 2007 is for rally cars, a separate competition held on a rally course. Located in close proximity to the target of the mountain race " Forest Rally Stage" leads to 2.5 km long U-shaped over a makeshift gravel forest road, the master, the participants in two and a half minutes. Included are legendary rally cars like Lancia Stratos, Ford RS200, Audi Sport quattro, Opel Manta 400 or the Colin McRae R4.
Gallery
Scuderia Ferrari F1 models with two 248 F1 in 2006, FoS 2007
Lancia Rally 037 before the start of the Forest Rally Stage, FoS 2007
Mercer Raceabout of 1912, FoS 2007
Audi Sport quattro. Winner of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb 1985, Michèle Mouton, FoS 2006
Lancia D50, 1954, FoS 2007
Paul Tracy's 1997 Penske PC -26 Champ Car, FoS 2006
The reconstructed Chitty Bang Bang IV, Higham Special or " Babs " FoS 2005