Festival of Speed is our longest-standing Motorsport event, starting in 1993 when it opened to 25,00 people. We were expecting 2000!
Sir Stirling Moss was one of the founding patrons of the Festival of Speed, and a regular competitor at the Revival.
Leading women of business, sport, fashion and media, take part in one of the most exciting horseracing events in the world.
Leading women of business, sport, fashion and media, take part in one of the most exciting horseracing events in the world.
Testament to the 19th-century fascination with ancient Egypt and decorative opulence. The room is richly detailed with gilded cartouches, sphinxes, birds and crocodiles.
G. Stubbs (1724–1806) created some of the animal portraiture masterpieces at Goodwood House, combining anatomical exactitude with expressive details
As the private clubhouse for all of the Estate’s sporting and social members, it offers personal service and a relaxed atmosphere
The dining room is host to an original painting from the Goodwood collection of the 6th Duke as a child.
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
Festival of Speed is our longest-standing Motorsport event, starting in 1993 when it opened to 25,00 people. We were expecting 2000!
Our replica of the famous motor show showcases the "cars of the future" in true Revival style
The iconic spitfire covered almost 43,000 kilometres and visited over 20 countries on its epic journey and currently resides at our Aerodrome.
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 Fiat S76 or "Beast of Turin" is a Goodwood favourite and can usually be heard before it is seen at #FOS
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
Leading women of business, sport, fashion and media, take part in one of the most exciting horseracing events in the world.
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
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
For safety reasons F1 cars can no longer do official timed runs so instead perform stunning demonstrations!
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.
One of the greatest golfers of all time, James Braid designed Goodwood’s iconic Downland course, opened in 1914.
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
Flying training began at Goodwood in 1940 when pilots were taught operational flying techniques in Hurricanes and Spitfires.
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.
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.
Flying training began at Goodwood in 1940 when pilots were taught operational flying techniques in Hurricanes and Spitfires.
The famous fighter ace, who flew his last sortie from Goodwood Aerodrome, formerly RAF Westhampnett has a statue in his honor within the airfield.
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 horsebox was used from Goodwood to Doncaster for the 1836 St. Leger. Elis arrived fresh and easily won his owner a £12k bet.
One of the greatest golfers of all time, James Braid designed Goodwood’s iconic Downland course, opened in 1914.
The Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
As the private clubhouse for all of the Estate’s sporting and social members, it offers personal service and a relaxed atmosphere
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!
A 20m woodland rue, from Halnaker to Lavant, was planted by our forestry teams & volunteers, featuring native species like oak, beech, & hornbeam
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
The Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
Inspired by the legendary racer, Masten Gregory, who famously leapt from the cockpit of his car before impact when approaching Woodcote Corner in 1959.
Our gin uses wild-grown botanicals sourced from the estate, and is distilled with mineral water naturally chalk-filtered through the South Downs.
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.
He may not carry a gun in his glove compartment but there are some quirky connections between racing legend Sir Stirling and a certain James Bond.
Words by James Collard
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One might be a fictional hero, the other a living legend, but 007 and motor-racing icon Sir Stirling Moss have much that connects them. Aston Martins, for a start. Moss raced the DBR1, famously winning the World Championship for the marque some 60 years ago this year. And Aston Martin has been James Bond’s primary on-screen car of choice since the release of Goldfinger in 1964, when Sean Connery drove a DB5 – though Bond aficionados would be quick to point out that in Ian Fleming’s 1959 novel of the same name, the secret agent drove an earlier model. According to Ben Macintyre, author of For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond , 007 drove only one Aston Martin in the books themselves: “It was in Goldfinger
– a grey DB Mark III from the secret service pool with headlights that change colour, a reinforced bumper, a radio receiver and a Colt .45 in a secret compartment. I don’t think Stirling Moss ever drove with one of those.”
The world’s most famous spy and the racing driver also hail from the same generation. The cinematic Bond is eerily ageless, as he must be in order to keep the franchise in fine fettle. His novelistic year of birth, however, is generally calculated as either 1920 or 1921, while Moss was born in 1929, and turns 90 this month – many happy returns.
Fame arrived for both the spy and the driver in the early 1950s. The publication of Casino Royale introduced James Bond to the world in 1953. Fleming’s books, of course, became an almost instant success, but it’s a sign of Moss’s celebrity during this era that an unpublished (and never filmed) story by Fleming, Murder on Wheels , centred on a plot by SMERSH, the evil Soviet counterintelligence agency, to bump him off while he raced at the Nürburgring circuit in Germany. In the story, James Bond rode to the rescue, or rather drove to it – having been taught to race by Moss, this time driving a Maserati.
Although the plot never made it to the movie screen – or indeed to the “Jimmy Bond” US TV series that Fleming was working on before the film franchise took off – it became the basis for Anthony Horowitz’s Trigger Mortis , commissioned by the Fleming estate and published in 2015 (with the racing driver renamed as Lancy Smith). But Moss’s biggest 007 moment came in 1967 with his cameo performance in the spoof Peter Sellers Bond movie, Casino Royale , playing a chauffeur. True, his role was brief – “Follow that car!” he was instructed – and uncredited. But he was in good company, as the movie also contains uncredited performances from none other than Peter O’Toole, Anjelica Huston and Geraldine Chaplin.
Macintyre adds that Fleming was himself a car aficionado: “He bought a Daimler with the money from the film rights to Casino Royale and then a vast American car called a Studillac, a Studebaker with a Cadillac engine, which he test-drove at 80mph before being pulled over by traffic cops.” Now that’s something that never happened to Bond – or Moss.
This article was taken from the Autumn 2019 edition of the Goodwood Magazine.
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