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.
King Edward VII (who came almost every year) famously dubbed Glorious Goodwood “a garden party with racing tacked on”.
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!
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 Fiat S76 or "Beast of Turin" is a Goodwood favourite and can usually be heard before it is seen at #FOS
Extracts from the 4th & 5th Dukes diaries are on display with red ink used to highlight great things that had happened.
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.
Nick Heidfelds 1999 (41.6s) hillclimb record was beaten after Max Chilton in his McMurtry Spéirling fan car tore it to shreds at 39.08s in 2022!
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.
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.
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.
From 2005 to present there has been a demonstration area for the rally cars at the top of the hill
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 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
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 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 red & yellow of the Racecourse can be traced back hundreds of years, even captured in our stunning Stubbs paintings in the Goodwood Collection
Flying jetpacks doesn't have to just be a spectator sport at FOS, you can have a go at our very own Aerodrome!
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.
Estate milk was once transformed into ice-creams, bombes, and syllabubs, and the Georgian ice house still stands in the grounds in front of Goodwood House.
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.
Flying training began at Goodwood in 1940 when pilots were taught operational flying techniques in Hurricanes and Spitfires.
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.
G. Stubbs (1724–1806) created some of the animal portraiture masterpieces at Goodwood House, combining anatomical exactitude with expressive details
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 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.
As the private clubhouse for all of the Estate’s sporting and social members, it offers personal service and a relaxed atmosphere
The iconic spitfire covered almost 43,000 kilometres and visited over 20 countries on its epic journey and currently resides at our Aerodrome.
Goodwood’s pigs are a mix of two rare breeds (Gloucester Old Spots and Saddlebacks) plus the Large White Boar.
The famous fighter ace, who flew his last sortie from Goodwood Aerodrome, formerly RAF Westhampnett has a statue in his honor within the airfield.
A 20m woodland rue, from Halnaker to Lavant, was planted by our forestry teams & volunteers, featuring native species like oak, beech, & hornbeam
The iconic spitfire covered almost 43,000 kilometres and visited over 20 countries on its epic journey and currently resides at our Aerodrome.
The oldest existing rules for the game were drawn up for a match between the 2nd Duke and a neighbour
Inspired by the legendary racer, Masten Gregory, who famously leapt from the cockpit of his car before impact when approaching Woodcote Corner in 1959.
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!
In the world of cycling, shaving of a few grams can radically enhance a bike’s performance. So where should you go to find some of the lightest and most durable frames available to mankind? Why, Sussex of course.
Words by Alex Moore
Sussex is fast becoming the epicentre of bleeding-edge bicycle manufacture in the UK. In Hailsham, Jim Walker and the Enigma team have been reimagining the capabilities of titanium frames for the past 13 years (Jim’s involvement in the industry stretches back nearly half a century), while at the foot of Ditchling Beacon – a sore subject for many a Sussex cyclist – Orro Bikes is experimenting with the same Sigmatex composite materials used in aerospace. It’s safe to assume that this localised passion for engineering has something to do with Sussex also being a hotbed for motorsports.
At Reilly Cycleworks in Brighton, master frame builder Mark Reilly (an apprentice of the late, great framebuilder Ron Cooper) has teamed up with industrial model maker Neil FitzGerald (no stranger to making things lighter and faster). FitzGerald learned his trade in Fontwell, working on Thrust SSC, the first land vehicle to break the sound barrier when it set the world land speed record (763mph) back in 1997. From there, he went to work with the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 team in Brackley, designing the aerodynamic prototypes that are tested in the wind tunnel. He still works the weekend shift there but spends the rest of his time making Reilly’s framesets as light and durable as is scientifically possible.
“There’s a simple purity in a bicycle frame,” explains FitzGerald. “It’s a million miles away from Formula One, where it can take thousands of people to create just two cars. I can pretty much make a bike with my bare hands. But the engineering challenges still exist, only with bikes it’s about seeing how far you can go with two triangles and two wheels.”
If only it were that simple. To get Reilly’s latest frames weighing under 600 grams (that’s less than a basketball), FitzGerald has sought the expertise of “carbon composite guru” Dr Rob Neumann. “We use a special type of spread tow carbon fibre,” he explains. “It’s a unidirectional carbon, around 70 per cent lighter than your typical woven carbon fibre as it requires far less resin. It’s also incredibly stiff.”
It would seem the words of legendary Lotus founder Colin Chapman not only permeate every aspect of F1 design, but also the working practices of those involved in the sport: “Simplify, then add lightness.” Indeed, FitzGerald is already wondering how to shave another 50 grams off the latest design. With a bike that light, suddenly the prospect of Ditchling Beacon doesn’t sound quite so daunting.