The Goodwood Festival of Speed occurred two and a half weeks ago and only now have I gotten over how amazing it was. Overall I would say it was better than last years event due to the variety and diversity of the cars scattered around the grounds. This review will be split down into different sections of the festival in order to make this review easier to break down.
RACING PADDOCKS
One key element to the Festival is the race car paddocks as Goodwood is one of the only places to see some of the world's greatest racing cars in one place. The race cars range across all pedigrees of motorsport from Formula One and Le Mans to Rally and Touring Cars, it is an extensive collection of motorsport gems. Some highlights that stood out to me in particular include the mass amount of Porsche 917s dotted about. This year celebrated 50 years of the Porsche 917 and therefore there were 11 in total including the legendary Gulf liveried 917s and a metallic silver road legal 917 which is allegedly daily driven in Sussex. With a value of £14,000,000 for each 917, to see 11 in a row is truly spectacular. In the same paddock as this was a line of all of Michael Schumacher's ex-cars which was a sight to behold also: Bennettons, Jordans, Ferraris and a Mercedes to make up the illustrious career of one of the greatest drivers of all time. These two were incredible sights to see but to me, the best scenes in the paddock was of vintage Le Mans cars. My favourite era of cars are Le Mans from 1966-2008 and therefore there were some utter gems hidden. Bentley's 2003 Speed 8 which took them to a victory at Le Sarthe, the 2002 Dallara SP1 in it's iconic livery, the 1999 BMW V12 LMR which placed 1st in 1999 and the extensive line of modern and vintage Aston Martin racing cars were my highlights by far. Not forgetting to mention that in the Aston Martin section was a DBR1, worth up to £20m, a DB3S worth up to £8m, a DB4 GTZ worth up to £14m and the special project Aston Martins which are near to priceless. Paddocks overall was a little worse than last year as last year featured an MC12 GT1, Jag XJR12 and many other 90s Le Mans legends that unfortunately were not present this year.
Wednesday 31 July 2019
Monday 1 July 2019
Goodwood FOS 2019 Preview
The Goodwood Festival of Speed begins in 3 days and for me it begins in 5 days. It is always a haven for the motoring industry and car fans alike, meaning there are always some dynamic debuts which become greater and greater each year. Here are a few of the highlights featured this year.
Pagani will have a huge presence at this years show as they celebrate their 20th anniversary. As many would know, Pagani is a favourite of mine and having seen 3 of their cars last year, I thought that three would be the most I'd see in one place. This year, they are hosting the biggest collection of Pagani cars in one place with rumours of over 20 cars to be on display as well as the Pagani Museo collection. The Pagani's will have a 'takeover' of the supercar paddock on Saturday and on Sunday they will part but to see them in the metal will be truly special.
Following on from Pagani, another smaller hypercar manufacturer is making a dynamic debut at this years festival being Koenigsegg. 20 years ago, no-one would've heard of Koenigsegg but after years of stunning the supercar game, they are debuting their newest car at Goodwood. The Jesko (named after the founder's father) will be on the Michelin Stand and will not take to the hillclimb. However the 1600hp Jesko will be on display for its UK debut most likely among other Koenigsegg's on display to go up the hill.
Ford are celebrating 60 years since the 1969 Le Mans victory over Ferrari in the Ford GT40s and not only are they taking all 4 GT40s that raced in that amazing victory in 1969, but they teased on their social media a special racing version or a racing-inspired version of the current GT. There are currently no details besides the still, shadowed image but this Thursday all shall be revealed.
Ferrari are taking 3 very special cars to debut at Goodwood this weekend that are making their world debuts. The first of which is the SP2 from their Icona range to celebrate their heritage. The SP2 based on the 1957 250 Testarossa is a two seater speedster limited to 200 units, the sister car to the single seater SP1 which is as of yet unconfirmed. The second car is the SP3JC which is a one off produced for a customer which uses the running gear from an F12tdf and the body to celebrate the old 1960s Ferrari Roadsters. It is rumoured to be a one off but two of these have been spotted, one with a blue, yellow and white colour scheme and one finished in gunmetal grey and red. The final is a first for Ferrari which is a one-off special project based on a racing chassis. The P80/C is based on a 488 GT3 and therefore is not road legal but still a spectacular project.
Ultimately the debuts will be special but the hypercar line-up so far is insane not even including what was mentioned prior. Apollo will be there again with the IE 'Purple Dragon', Brabham will feature a BT62 to go up the hill and a second one on their stand, W Motors will again be there with their Fenyr and De Tomaso get a reboot with the highly-anticipated Project 'P'. Don't worry there's more : a brakes manufacturer are bringing a TVR Cerbera Speed 12 prototype, Ginetta are bringing their new Akula supercar, Ultima have their Evolution RS, TechArt are bringing their interpretation of a 991.2 GT3 RS, Ford are bringing their new Shelby GT500 and finally Morgan have found new light with their Plus 6 powered by the 3.0 V6 in the new BMW Z4 and Toyota Supra.
With Goodwood approaching there will be a lot of new announcements that will be followed up with a lot of articles and posts on here. 785 photos last year, let's see if I can get anymore that that this year.
Pagani will have a huge presence at this years show as they celebrate their 20th anniversary. As many would know, Pagani is a favourite of mine and having seen 3 of their cars last year, I thought that three would be the most I'd see in one place. This year, they are hosting the biggest collection of Pagani cars in one place with rumours of over 20 cars to be on display as well as the Pagani Museo collection. The Pagani's will have a 'takeover' of the supercar paddock on Saturday and on Sunday they will part but to see them in the metal will be truly special.
Following on from Pagani, another smaller hypercar manufacturer is making a dynamic debut at this years festival being Koenigsegg. 20 years ago, no-one would've heard of Koenigsegg but after years of stunning the supercar game, they are debuting their newest car at Goodwood. The Jesko (named after the founder's father) will be on the Michelin Stand and will not take to the hillclimb. However the 1600hp Jesko will be on display for its UK debut most likely among other Koenigsegg's on display to go up the hill.
Ford are celebrating 60 years since the 1969 Le Mans victory over Ferrari in the Ford GT40s and not only are they taking all 4 GT40s that raced in that amazing victory in 1969, but they teased on their social media a special racing version or a racing-inspired version of the current GT. There are currently no details besides the still, shadowed image but this Thursday all shall be revealed.
Ferrari are taking 3 very special cars to debut at Goodwood this weekend that are making their world debuts. The first of which is the SP2 from their Icona range to celebrate their heritage. The SP2 based on the 1957 250 Testarossa is a two seater speedster limited to 200 units, the sister car to the single seater SP1 which is as of yet unconfirmed. The second car is the SP3JC which is a one off produced for a customer which uses the running gear from an F12tdf and the body to celebrate the old 1960s Ferrari Roadsters. It is rumoured to be a one off but two of these have been spotted, one with a blue, yellow and white colour scheme and one finished in gunmetal grey and red. The final is a first for Ferrari which is a one-off special project based on a racing chassis. The P80/C is based on a 488 GT3 and therefore is not road legal but still a spectacular project.
Ultimately the debuts will be special but the hypercar line-up so far is insane not even including what was mentioned prior. Apollo will be there again with the IE 'Purple Dragon', Brabham will feature a BT62 to go up the hill and a second one on their stand, W Motors will again be there with their Fenyr and De Tomaso get a reboot with the highly-anticipated Project 'P'. Don't worry there's more : a brakes manufacturer are bringing a TVR Cerbera Speed 12 prototype, Ginetta are bringing their new Akula supercar, Ultima have their Evolution RS, TechArt are bringing their interpretation of a 991.2 GT3 RS, Ford are bringing their new Shelby GT500 and finally Morgan have found new light with their Plus 6 powered by the 3.0 V6 in the new BMW Z4 and Toyota Supra.
With Goodwood approaching there will be a lot of new announcements that will be followed up with a lot of articles and posts on here. 785 photos last year, let's see if I can get anymore that that this year.
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