Previous winners of the Festival of Speed Timed Shoot-Out

At any other time of the year, the 1.16-mile course that wends its way through the serene Goodwood Estate is unassuming and quiet, yet there is perhaps no stretch of road anywhere else in the world that can claim such an astonishing history. 

Hundreds if not thousands of cars have crossed Goodwood’s very own yard of bricks, passed Goodwood House, and navigated the treacherous flint wall on their way to the summit. Champions of Formula 1, sportscars, touring cars, rallying and motorcycle racing, winners of events like the Monaco Grand Prix, the Le Mans 24 Hours, the Indianapolis 500, the Dakar Rally and more. 

The Festival of Speed’s Timed Shoot-Out has a history of its own, though, that begins with the inauguration of an officially recognised event in 2011. In prior years, cars would complete timed runs throughout the course of the event, before Dan Collins became the first driver to claim the Timed Shoot-Out crown at the wheel of the legendary Lotus 88. 

Collins was deposed in 2012 by touring car legend and Super Touring stalwart Anthony Reid, who set a blistering 46-second time in a Chevron GT8 GT3 car. Then in 2013 it was Justin Law, who had set the fastest time of the weekend on four previous occasions, who claimed his first Timed Shoot-Out victory with his Jaguar XJR8/9. 

It didn’t take long for the Shoot-Out to start generating a huge amount of interest from spectators and competitors alike. The high-speed and narrow course with its seven challenging corners is the perfect recipe for drama and excitement, and soon some of motorsport’s biggest names were drawn to get involved in the spectacle. 

Nine-time World Rally Champion Sébastien Loeb jumped into the savage Peugeot 206 T16 Pikes Peak machine to blitz the rest of the field and claim the Shoot-Out crown in 2014. 

Olly Clark became the first multiple-time winner when he took back-to-back triumphs with the Subaru Impreza ‘Gobstopper II’ in 2015 and ‘16, just pipping Justin Law at the post as he claimed his own second crown with the Jaguar XJR-12D in 2017. 

King of the Hill Romain Dumas won the first of his four Shoot-Out titles in 2018 with the extraordinary Volkswagen ID.R, for what was the first victory at the event for an electric car. He did the double in 2019 with an astonishing 42-second run before being dethroned by Rob Bell’s similarly spectacular McLaren 720S GT3X in 2021. 

Then came 2022, the one we’ll remember forever. We all raised an eyebrow when McMurtry announced its intention to finally beat the long-standing Goodwood Hill record set by Nick Heidfeld in 1999, but none of us knew what we were about to witness when the car was unleashed from the start line for the first time.  

The McMurtry Spéirling will be eternally etched in Goodwood folklore for its achievement during the 2022 Festival of Speed, a run that is simply unforgettable. If you’ve never seen Max Chilton’s Shoot-Out-winning run, we suggest you spend the next 39.08 seconds giving it a watch, because it has to be seen to be believed. 

That record-breaking run was followed up by the renaissance of the V10 when Marvin Kirchhöfer brilliantly took victory in the eye-catching McLaren Solus GT. That car for now, however, remains the final combustion engined machine to win the Timed Shoot-Out at the Festival of Speed. Since then, it’s been all about Romain Dumas and a pair of 2,000PS EV monsters. 

The Ford Supervan 4.2 was an exciting debutant in the 2024 Timed Shoot-Out, and with Dumas at the wheel you just knew it was going to be fast. There have been few more remarkable sights at the Festival of Speed than this huge Transit-sized racing car complete with gargantuan rear wing absolutely flying up the Goodwood Hill, and its victory defined everything we love about the event. 

Ford and Dumas returned in 2025, this time with the reprofiled Supertruck, setting another absolutely rapid time as the Frenchman claimed his fourth Timed Shoot-Out title. 

The Goodwood Festival of Speed Timed Shoot-Out has always been a hugely competitively event, contested by a wide variety of cars and drivers from all corners of the motorsport landscape. There’s always something new and exciting to pique your interest in the line-up, and we’re looking ahead with anticipation to find out who will come out on top in 2026.   

Previous winners of the Festival of Speed Timed Shoot-Out 

Fastest times from the pre-Shoot-Out era 

The Timed Shoot-Out is the highlight of Sunday at the Festival of Speed. Tickets for Sunday are now available to purchase, as is access for all four days of the event.

If you’re not already part of the GRRC, you can sign up to the Fellowship today and save ten per cent on your 2026 tickets and grandstand passes, as well as enjoying a whole host of other on-event perks.

Photography by Jayson Fong, Jochen van Cauwenberg, Dominic James, Phil Hay, Max Carter, Nick Wilkinson and Matt Dunkinson.