From 2005 to present there has been a demonstration area for the rally cars at the top of the hill
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".
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 oldest existing rules for the game were drawn up for a match between the 2nd Duke and a neighbour
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.
Head Butler David Edney has worked at Buckingham Palace taking part in Dinner Parties for the then Duke of Richmond and the Queen.
Our gin uses wild-grown botanicals sourced from the estate, and is distilled with mineral water naturally chalk-filtered through the South Downs.
A bell under each place at the table to signal if butlers can come back in to the dining room, a guests privacy is always paramount.
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
FOS Favourite Mad Mike Whiddett can be caught melting tyres in his incredible collection of cars (and trucks) up the hillclimb
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 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!
A 20m woodland rue, from Halnaker to Lavant, was planted by our forestry teams & volunteers, featuring native species like oak, beech, & hornbeam
Future Lab is Goodwood's innovation pavilion, inspiring industry enthusiasts and future scientists with dynamic tech
The Fiat S76 or "Beast of Turin" is a Goodwood favourite and can usually be heard before it is seen at #FOS
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.
Leading women of business, sport, fashion and media, take part in one of the most exciting horseracing events in the world.
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 Fiat S76 or "Beast of Turin" is a Goodwood favourite and can usually be heard before it is seen at #FOS
The Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
Testament to the 19th-century fascination with ancient Egypt and decorative opulence. The room is richly detailed with gilded cartouches, sphinxes, birds and crocodiles.
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 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.
Ray Hanna famously flew straight down Goodwood’s pit straight below the height of the grandstands at the first Revival in 1998
The replica of the original Axminster carpet is so lavish that the President of Bulgaria came to visit it before its departure!
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!
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 famous fighter ace, who flew his last sortie from Goodwood Aerodrome, formerly RAF Westhampnett has a statue in his honor within the airfield.
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.
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.
A 20m woodland rue, from Halnaker to Lavant, was planted by our forestry teams & volunteers, featuring native species like oak, beech, & hornbeam
"En la rose je fleurie" or "Like the rose, I flourish" is part of the Richmond coat of Arms and motto
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!
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.
Flying training began at Goodwood in 1940 when pilots were taught operational flying techniques in Hurricanes and Spitfires.
Since its launch 60 years ago, the Fiat 500 has changed the face of Italian urban life. Stephen Bayley looks back at the iconic design – celebrated at last year's Revival – which remains a potent symbol of Italy’s postwar optimism
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THE FIAT 500 WAS DEFINED by Italian townscapes: its tiny dimensions allowed it to cope with the narrow streets and alleyways of cities such as Florence or Naples. It was also designed with Italian passion: a product conceived without cynicism, but with a simple belief that ordinary things can be beautiful – as was demonstrated when so many pristine examples of this gamechanging car were paraded by their proud owners in honour of its 60th anniversary at Goodwood Revival last year.
This simple construction was visually interesting – the nuova cinquecento was a model of intuitive genius
This nuova cinquecento of 1957 was the successor to the great Dante Giacosa’s original 500 of 1936, known as “topolino” or “little mouse”. The smallest car in the world at the time, this first front-engined 500 weighed just 535kg and could carry two people and 50kg of luggage at 85km/h. The nuova cinquecento was conceived for a very different world from Giacoso’s Mussolini-era topolino. This was the Italy of the ricostruzione, the postwar rebuilding, and it was necessary, first, to motorise the citizenry and, second, to provide Italians with agreeable symbols of much hopedfor national renewal. Corradino d’Ascanio’s Vespa scooter, designed using aeronautical principles, was the first machine to meet this brief; the nuova cinquecento, designed to be just a little bit more comfortable than a Vespa, was the second.
A disciplined and committed engineer, Giacosa had a fundamental disapproval of excess and spoke eloquently about the quest for simplicity. He understood every aspect of the motor car, but took a special interest in body construction, designing panels that were cheap to manufacture with minimum waste. But, very cleverly, he somehow made this simple construction visually interesting. The 500 deploys nearly flat glass, but pinching and contouring of the body creates an effect of sculpted generosity, rather than of a frugal metal box. Interestingly, Giacosa would come to dislike computers, saying they were only capable of rapidly verifying results, not of anticipating them. The nuova cinquecento was a design of intuitive genius.
The full-size wooden styling buck used to determine the final form of the body still exists, a haunting reminder of how car design was once done. Yet the 500 was forward-looking too: it was launched on live TV at Fiat’s Lingotto plant in Turin with Giacosa presiding. The 500 revolutionised Italian life and won the Compasso d’Oro design award in 1959. It stayed in production, largely unaltered, until 1975. When, in 2007, Fiat decided to revive the 500, the technology was very different, but Roberto Giolito’s new design paid frank homage to the original. You still see them today, in cheerful colours, animated, charming and useful. Not just one of the greatest cars to roll off a production line, but one of the greatest designs… ever.
This article is taken from the Goodwood magazine, Winter 2018 issue
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