With Formula 1 as its main theme, the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed, supported again by Mastercard, provided an epic weekend for hard-wired petrol heads to casual motoring enthusiasts! Held in sublime British summer weather, the 4-day weekend attracted over 200,000 spectators to the stunning Sussex estate with the headline theme ‘Champions and … [Read more...]
Fan-tastic supercar sets Goodwood record
Former F1 driver Max Chilton driving an innovative Batmobile-like EV equipped with a pair of fans creating 2000kg of downforce, provided an impressive climax to Goodwood’s mid-summer motorsport soiree. Followed by an impressive swirl of dust as it whooshed along, the diminutive Gloucestershire-made car’s stealth-fighter-like profile might look intimidating, … [Read more...]
Impreza lookalike announced by Prodrive
Some 25 years since the first Subaru Impreza World Rally Car made its winning debut on the stages of the World Rally Championship, the bespoke Prodrive P25 recaptures the essence of that very Impreza, while taking inspiration from the 22B arguably the most iconic Impreza. Modern technology ensures the P25 is more powerful, lighter and with better … [Read more...]
Sportslines 11 November
Williams Advanced Engineering and Castrol have entered into a five-year technical partnership to co-develop high performance Electric Vehicle Fluids. As part of the agreement, Castrol will become the official supplier of EV Thermal Fluids for WAE’s growing electrification programmes and motorsport activities such as Formula E, Extreme E, ETCR and LMdH and … [Read more...]
Stars, cars, rain and sun – Goodwood FoS returned
Following its enforced 2020 sabbatical, the Mastercard Goodwood Festival of Speed returned with a bang – including daily pyrotechnics – last week after being chosen as a pilot event by the UK Government's Event Research Programme, writes Ken Davies. Adding credibility to this decision, the Right Hon Oliver Dowden MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media, … [Read more...]
Goodwood Festival gets go-ahead
Goodwood Festival of Speed will now form part of the Events Research Programme (ERP) as a pilot event and will take place as planned from Thursday 8 - Sunday 11 July. The event is sold out across Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The capacities agreed with the ERP will mean that all 2021 Festival of Speed ticket, hospitality and grandstand pass holders … [Read more...]
Sportslines 18 June
The Goodwood Festival of Speed in July and Goodwood Revival in September have been cancelled for this year. Social distancing requirements have made it impossible to stage the popular events and they will next be held in 2021 and the British Motor Show has also moved to November at Farnborough International Conference Centre. … [Read more...]