FOS Favourite Mad Mike Whiddett can be caught melting tyres in his incredible collection of cars (and trucks) up the hillclimb
Sir Stirling Moss was one of the founding patrons of the Festival of Speed, and a regular competitor at the Revival.
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 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.
Goodwood’s pigs are a mix of two rare breeds (Gloucester Old Spots and Saddlebacks) plus the Large White Boar.
After a fire in 1791 at Richmond House in Whitehall, London, James Wyatt added two great wings to showcase the saved collection at Goodwood. To give unity to the two new wings, Wyatt added copper-domed turrets framing each façade.
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!
The Fiat S76 or "Beast of Turin" is a Goodwood favourite and can usually be heard before it is seen at #FOS
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.
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.
For safety reasons F1 cars can no longer do official timed runs so instead perform stunning demonstrations!
Sir Stirling Moss was one of the founding patrons of the Festival of Speed, and a regular competitor at the Revival.
Our replica of the famous motor show showcases the "cars of the future" in true Revival style
Our gin uses wild-grown botanicals sourced from the estate, and is distilled with mineral water naturally chalk-filtered through the South Downs.
Festival of Speed is our longest-standing Motorsport event, starting in 1993 when it opened to 25,00 people. We were expecting 2000!
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 first public race meeting took place in 1802 and, through the nineteenth century, ‘Glorious Goodwood,’ as the press named it, became a highlight of the summer season
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.
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
The red & yellow of the Racecourse can be traced back hundreds of years, even captured in our stunning Stubbs paintings in the Goodwood Collection
King Edward VII (who came almost every year) famously dubbed Glorious Goodwood “a garden party with racing tacked on”.
King Edward VII (who came almost every year) famously dubbed Glorious Goodwood “a garden party with racing tacked on”.
The iconic spitfire covered almost 43,000 kilometres and visited over 20 countries on its epic journey and currently resides at our Aerodrome.
The famous fighter ace, who flew his last sortie from Goodwood Aerodrome, formerly RAF Westhampnett has a statue in his honor within the airfield.
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.
One of the greatest golfers of all time, James Braid designed Goodwood’s iconic Downland course, opened in 1914.
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 famous fighter ace, who flew his last sortie from Goodwood Aerodrome, formerly RAF Westhampnett has a statue in his honor within the airfield.
We have been host to many incredible film crews using Goodwood as a backdrop for shows like Downton Abbey, Hollywood Blockbusters like Venom: let there be Carnage and the Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The exquisite mirror in the Ballroom of Goodwood House it so big they had to raise the ceiling to get it inside!
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.
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.
The red & yellow of the Racecourse can be traced back hundreds of years, even captured in our stunning Stubbs paintings in the Goodwood Collection
One of the greatest golfers of all time, James Braid designed Goodwood’s iconic Downland course, opened in 1914.
Flying jetpacks doesn't have to just be a spectator sport at FOS, you can have a go at our very own Aerodrome!
As the private clubhouse for all of the Estate’s sporting and social members, it offers personal service and a relaxed atmosphere
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).
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).
Goodwood’s pigs are a mix of two rare breeds (Gloucester Old Spots and Saddlebacks) plus the Large White Boar.
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!
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.
Our gin uses wild-grown botanicals sourced from the estate, and is distilled with mineral water naturally chalk-filtered through the South Downs.
Goodwood’s pigs are a mix of two rare breeds (Gloucester Old Spots and Saddlebacks) plus the Large White Boar.
There are fast cars, there are beautiful cars, and there are some cars that sound extraordinary, from the distinctive growl of the ’68 Dodge Charger to the mesmeric thrum of the Matra V12.
Words by Andrew Frankel
Goodwood Magazine
Motorsport
revival
Goodwood Revival
We don’t know why one car sounds better than another, but nor do we need to: we know a great-sounding car when we hear one, and that’s all that counts. Here then, from road and track, present and past, are some of the most sonically stunning machines ever created.
We start before the war, with Bugatti, and it doesn’t really matter if you choose a Type 51 Grand Prix car or a Type 55 street machine because they both shared the same engine: a 2.3-litre supercharged motor with eight cylinders all in a long line. Decades ago someone likened its ripping, screaming voice as being akin to “tearing calico” and I don’t suppose anyone will ever describe it better.
The purest sounds, however, were always made by straight-six engines. For some reason they always remind me of Britain, so let’s choose the engine of a lightweight Jaguar E-type, tuned to the very limit of existence. Hearing such a car howling its way around Goodwood is like listening to the very soundtrack of the circuit.
We need an eight-cylinder too, or a V8 to be precise. But these can be engineered to make very different sounds, as anyone who’s heard, say, a V8 Ferrari and almost any American V8 will attest. I won’t dwell on the crankshaft configuration responsible but to me it’s always been the American approach I’ve preferred: if you ever feel an engine shake the ground beneath your feet, turn to your neighbour and say, “That’ll be a V8 with cross-plane crank,” and 99 times out of 100 you’ll be right. The best? In the racing arena, the Aston Martin AMR1 Le Mans car of 1989. Among road cars it’s probably the 1968 Dodge Charger 440 R/T. Perhaps the most interesting sound made by a conventional car engine these days belongs to those with five cylinders in a line. These engines are inherently unbalanced, but that’s actually the source of their amazing noise. Their offbeat thrum was captivating when we first heard it regularly in cars like the original Audi Quattro, but with its cylinder count doubled to make a V10, and shoehorned into the back of a modern supercar, the configuration can sound absolutely incredible. Indeed the current Lamborghini Huracán Performante is probably the most exciting-sounding car on sale today.
Best of all? It has to be a V12, the most classically configured engine arrangement of them all. A proper V12 can do it all, changing its voice from growl to howl to scream to shriek as the revs rise. But the V12 sound, at least if you’re listening to the right one, is also deeply layered and complex, a mesmeric orchestration of mechanical sound. It’s an old cliché, so motoring journalists no longer use it, but there is something symphonic about these engines that no others have.
As for the best, racing geeks will know it’s the Matra V12 engine, used in F1 and sports cars from 1968 through the 1970s. Its sound is incomparable. But the car that most people have heard of that has the best claim to being the greatest-sounding car ever created? I’d probably choose the 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO, thanks to its 3-litre V12 engine. Its voice is not the loudest, nor the most exciting, but simply the most beautiful I’ve ever heard a car make. And that’s good enough for me.
Goodwood Magazine
Motorsport
revival
Goodwood Revival