For safety reasons F1 cars can no longer do official timed runs so instead perform stunning demonstrations!
Our replica of the famous motor show showcases the "cars of the future" in true Revival style
Leading women of business, sport, fashion and media, take part in one of the most exciting horseracing events in the world.
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 famous fighter ace, who flew his last sortie from Goodwood Aerodrome, formerly RAF Westhampnett has a statue in his honor within the airfield.
"En la rose je fleurie" or "Like the rose, I flourish" is part of the Richmond coat of Arms and motto
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).
A huge variety of glassware is available for each wine, all labelled by grape type to give the best flavour profile.
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
Our replica of the famous motor show showcases the "cars of the future" in true Revival style
For the last two years, 5,800 bales have been recylced into the biomass energy centre to be used for energy generation
Our replica of the famous motor show showcases the "cars of the future" in true Revival style
For the last two years, 5,800 bales have been recylced into the biomass energy centre to be used for energy generation
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!
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 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 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
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”.
Ray Hanna famously flew straight down Goodwood’s pit straight below the height of the grandstands at the first Revival in 1998
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.
A 20m woodland rue, from Halnaker to Lavant, was planted by our forestry teams & volunteers, featuring native species like oak, beech, & hornbeam
The Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
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 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.
Flying training began at Goodwood in 1940 when pilots were taught operational flying techniques in Hurricanes and Spitfires.
A temple-folly guarded by two sphinxes, the beautiful shell house was built in 1748 with collected shells and the floor made from horse teeth.
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.
Ray Hanna famously flew straight down Goodwood’s pit straight below the height of the grandstands at the first Revival in 1998
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!
Flying training began at Goodwood in 1940 when pilots were taught operational flying techniques in Hurricanes and Spitfires.
"En la rose je fleurie" or "Like the rose, I flourish" is part of the Richmond coat of Arms and motto
"En la rose je fleurie" or "Like the rose, I flourish" is part of the Richmond coat of Arms and motto
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.
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.
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!
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 famous fighter ace, who flew his last sortie from Goodwood Aerodrome, formerly RAF Westhampnett has a statue in his honor within the airfield.
The oldest existing rules for the game were drawn up for a match between the 2nd Duke and a neighbour
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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