Found on the lawn at FOS is the finest concours d'elegance in the world, where the most beautiful cars are presented
Our replica of the famous motor show showcases the "cars of the future" in true Revival style
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 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
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.
A 20m woodland rue, from Halnaker to Lavant, was planted by our forestry teams & volunteers, featuring native species like oak, beech, & hornbeam
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.
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!
Each room is named after one of the hounds documented in January 1718, including Dido, Ruby and Drummer.
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.
The bricks lining the Festival of Speed startline are 100 years old and a gift from the Indianapolis Speedway "Brickyard" in 2011 to mark their centenary event!
For the last two years, 5,800 bales have been recylced into the biomass energy centre to be used for energy generation
FOS Favourite Mad Mike Whiddett can be caught melting tyres in his incredible collection of cars (and trucks) up the hillclimb
The bricks lining the Festival of Speed startline are 100 years old and a gift from the Indianapolis Speedway "Brickyard" in 2011 to mark their centenary event!
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.
The red & yellow of the Racecourse can be traced back hundreds of years, even captured in our stunning Stubbs paintings in the Goodwood Collection
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 first thing ever dropped at Goodwood was a cuddly elephant which landed in 1932 just as the 9th Duke of Richmonds passion for flying was taking off.
The first thing ever dropped at Goodwood was a cuddly elephant which landed in 1932 just as the 9th Duke of Richmonds passion for flying was taking off.
The origins of the collection lay in the possessions of Louise de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth, and Duchess of Aubigny in France, to whom some of the paintings originally belonged.
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.
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.
Flying jetpacks doesn't have to just be a spectator sport at FOS, you can have a go at our very own Aerodrome!
The Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
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.
Testament to the 19th-century fascination with ancient Egypt and decorative opulence. The room is richly detailed with gilded cartouches, sphinxes, birds and crocodiles.
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.
As the private clubhouse for all of the Estate’s sporting and social members, it offers personal service and a relaxed atmosphere
The oldest existing rules for the game were drawn up for a match between the 2nd Duke and a neighbour
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.
Goodwood’s pigs are a mix of two rare breeds (Gloucester Old Spots and Saddlebacks) plus the Large White Boar.
Our gin uses wild-grown botanicals sourced from the estate, and is distilled with mineral water naturally chalk-filtered through the South Downs.
The iconic spitfire covered almost 43,000 kilometres and visited over 20 countries on its epic journey and currently resides at our Aerodrome.
Inspired by the legendary racer, Masten Gregory, who famously leapt from the cockpit of his car before impact when approaching Woodcote Corner in 1959.
The iconic spitfire covered almost 43,000 kilometres and visited over 20 countries on its epic journey and currently resides at our Aerodrome.
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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