Showing posts with label Goodwood Festival of Speed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Goodwood Festival of Speed. Show all posts

Saturday, 3 November 2012

Goodwood Festival of Speed 2016 – Top of the Hill (Forest Rally Stage)


After a 20 minute walk from about two thirds of the way up the hill climb strip, through the forest rally stage which had been sponsored by Skoda. We finally arrived at the top of the hill, where we found plenty of mud related fun happening through the forest stage that had been set up.

It was late in the day, and it wasn’t long before the rally stage was closing. But people were still trying to improve on their time around the forest rally stage
Opposite to where the rally stage started on top of the hill was the end of the hill climb, where cars were coming up and parking up ready to back down once clear. We observed for a while as it was quite interesting to hear the cars coming up.
                                     Here’s a couple of quick video clips I got, remember to watch these HD!
This was pretty much the end of the day for us, we then headed back down through the forest towards the car park slowly again stopping in places to observe cars going up the hill climb.
 Earlier in the day, with it being the Queens Jubilee year there was a fireworks display, red arrows passing over Goodwood House and a euro fighter doing aerial acrobatics. We unfortunately only caught the Euro Fighter aerial acrobatics, so here’s a video clip…and here’s a couple of pictures I found

 Having an interest in Motorsport I thought it was pretty amazing to see the machines used up close. We got to see Gordon Sheddon’s Yuasa Honda Civic BTCC car, Sebastian Vettel’s Red Bull F1 car and Lewis Hamilton’s Mclaren go up the hill, and there’s many we probably missed.
All in all it was an absolutely amazing experience, especially with it being my first time at Goodwood, I would definitely recommend it to anyone and can’t wait to do it next year!

Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Goodwood Festival of Speed 2012 – Top 20 Cars of Interest

Goodwood Festival of Speed 2012 

Top 20 Cars of Interest

The 2012 running of the Goodwood Festival of Speed featured hundreds of
great cars,
motorcycles, drivers and riders taking to the 1.16-mile Goodwood hillclimb
during the
Festival weekend. The record crowd of 185,000 spectators at this year’s
event were
treated to many exceptional sights and moments.
Goodwood Festival of Speed 2012 highlights included the homage to Lotus,
in the
form of a massive sculpture outside Goodwood House, plus a great
 selection
of more than 40 significant racing examples of the marque taking to the
Festival
hillclimb.
Choosing our Top 20 “Cars of Interest” among the hundreds of spectacular
entrants
 is a difficult task, but we gave it our best effort. Lotus was the featured
marque at
the Festival of Speed, as the British company celebrates 60 years of
innovation
and motor sport success. Given the focus on Colin Chapman’s automobiles,
we gave extra attention to the sporting Loti that powered up the hillclimb at
Goodwood. We welcome your comments below if we missed your favorite.
Similar to our 2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed Hillclimb Photo Gallery,
Lotus Photo Gallery and Cartier Style et Luxe Concours stories,
photographer
Tim Scott also provided the following images of our Top 20 Cars of Interest.
To see more from Tim, visit fluidimages.co.uk.
Goodwood Festival of Speed 2012 – Top 20 Cars of Interest
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The revolutionary Colin Chapman-designed 1962 Lotus 25 was the
first fully
stressed monocoque chassis to appear in Formula One. Many of its
design
principles are still followed in today’s F1 machines.
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Ex-Dan Gurney Thompson-Buick Special in which ‘Handsome
Dan’ finished twentieth in the 1962 Indy 500.
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Ex-Klaus Ludwig Zakspeed Ford Capri. This 1.5-litre turbo beast
captured the 1981 DRM title and multiple Le Mans winner Ludwig
was reunited with the car over the Festival weekend.
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1976 March 2-4-0 – Though never raced in period, this
Robin Herd-designed machine was hillclimbed with some
success by Roy Lane in 1979.
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1952 Jaguar C-Type (XKC 005) piloted by Sir Stirling Moss and Norman
Dewis. Moss drove this C-Type to victory in the 1952 Reims
Grand Prix for sports cars.