Legend of Goodwood's golden racing era and Le Mans winner Roy Salvadori once famously said "give me Goodwood on a summer's day and you can forget the rest".
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 red & yellow of the Racecourse can be traced back hundreds of years, even captured in our stunning Stubbs paintings in the Goodwood Collection
Whoa Simon! A horse so determined and headstrong, he not only won the 1883 Goodwood Cup by 20 lengths, but couldn't be stopped and carried on running over the top of Trundle hill
The exquisite mirror in the Ballroom of Goodwood House it so big they had to raise the ceiling to get it inside!
As the private clubhouse for all of the Estate’s sporting and social members, it offers personal service and a relaxed atmosphere
The stunning fish which adorn the walls of the main corridor are hand crafted and represent the fishing documents from Gordon Castle of 1864-1898.
Our gin uses wild-grown botanicals sourced from the estate, and is distilled with mineral water naturally chalk-filtered through the South Downs.
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.
Festival of Speed is our longest-standing Motorsport event, starting in 1993 when it opened to 25,00 people. We were expecting 2000!
Sir Stirling Moss was one of the founding patrons of the Festival of Speed, and a regular competitor at the Revival.
The Fiat S76 or "Beast of Turin" is a Goodwood favourite and can usually be heard before it is seen at #FOS
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.
Whoa Simon! A horse so determined and headstrong, he not only won the 1883 Goodwood Cup by 20 lengths, but couldn't be stopped and carried on running over the top of Trundle hill
King Edward VII (who came almost every year) famously dubbed Glorious Goodwood “a garden party with racing tacked on”.
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.
Leading women of business, sport, fashion and media, take part in one of the most exciting horseracing events in the world.
Goodwood Motor Circuit was officially opened in September 1948 when Freddie March, the 9th Duke and renowned amateur racer, tore around the track in a Bristol 400
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 oldest existing rules for the game were drawn up for a match between the 2nd Duke and a neighbour
Flying training began at Goodwood in 1940 when pilots were taught operational flying techniques in Hurricanes and Spitfires.
Ray Hanna famously flew straight down Goodwood’s pit straight below the height of the grandstands at the first Revival in 1998
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 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.
The famous fighter ace, who flew his last sortie from Goodwood Aerodrome, formerly RAF Westhampnett has a statue in his honor within the airfield.
The replica of the original Axminster carpet is so lavish that the President of Bulgaria came to visit it before its departure!
As the private clubhouse for all of the Estate’s sporting and social members, it offers personal service and a relaxed atmosphere
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.
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 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 iconic spitfire covered almost 43,000 kilometres and visited over 20 countries on its epic journey and currently resides at our Aerodrome.
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!
Whoa Simon! A horse so determined and headstrong, he not only won the 1883 Goodwood Cup by 20 lengths, but couldn't be stopped and carried on running over the top of Trundle hill
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).
The Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
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
Easy boy! The charismatic Farnham Flyer loved to celebrate every win with a pint of beer. His Boxer dog, Grogger, did too and had a tendancy to steal sips straight from the glass.
The Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
From its humble origins in a garage in Bromley, Lola Cars rose to become Britain’s most successful manufacturer of racing cars, with a glittering history in every sphere of motorsport.
Words by Andrew Frankel
Goodwood Magazine
Goodwood Revival
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For a period of over half a century, starting 60 years ago, Lola Cars grew from nothing into one of the biggest racing car manufacturers on earth. In that time its cars saw success in almost every important field of motor racing, from Formula One and Indycars to sports car and Can-Am racing.
It all started in 1958 when Lola founder Eric Broadley built a beautiful little sports car in a friend’s garage. Powered by a Coventry Climax engine originally designed to act as portable fire pump, he called it the Lola Mk1 and registered the first car as 600 DKJ. Success came almost at once. With Broadley at the wheel it won what was only its third race. Further glory meant orders started to pour in – and within four years around 35 had been made. Lola was up and running.
The company’s first top-level championship success came when the new T70 Spyder absolutely dominated the inaugural 1966 Can-Am series, winning five out of the six rounds and making John Surtees the first ever Can-Am champion. The stiffest competition came from McLaren’s M1B, but with its light, stiff, advanced monocoque construction, the Lola almost always held a definitive advantage.
The T70 was developed over the next four seasons until it appeared in its ultimate Mk3B guise in 1969. Regarded as one of the most beautiful sports cars ever to race, the 3B’s greatest achievement of all was winning the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1969, outlasting a fleet of factory Porsche prototypes – not bad for car built to a limited cost and sold to private individuals. It also had a second life as a stunt double in Steve McQueen’s 1971 movie Le Mans. In the film’s two big crash sequences, the cars being destroyed may look like priceless Porsche 917 and Ferrari 512S prototypes, but what you’re actually looking at are radio-controlled T70s merely wearing the clothes of their blue-blooded rivals.
Lola’s greatest moment in F1 came, curiously enough, when Honda won the 1967 Italian Grand Prix. In fact, Honda had turned to Lola when its own F1 efforts failed to bear fruit and the resulting collaboration of a Honda engine in a Lola chassis was known officially as the RA300, but actually to all and sundry as the “Hondola”. Its unique claim to fame is to have won a world championship Grand Prix on the only lap of the only race it ever led.
But perhaps the most raced Lola of all is a 2-litre Group 6 sports car called a T297 that started life in 1972 as a T290 with chassis number HU22. It raced for 11 straight seasons, competing in no fewer than five Le Mans 24 hours, finishing four of them, – two with Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason, who owns the car to this day, at the wheel. And it only stopped racing when new Group C regulations for 1982 rendered the old Group 6 ineligible in the competition.
Sadly Lola stopped trading in 2012, but not before leaving an indelible mark on the motor racing world.
This article is taken from the Goodwood magazine, Summer 2018 issue.
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