Saturday (May 9th) kicks the action up a gear with a day of “Goodwood Firsts” – celebrating debut moments from Revival, Festival of Speed and Members’ Meetings. We begin with the first cars to ascend the Goodwood Hill as part of the 1993 Festival, before the inaugural races from the 1998 Revival and 72nd Members’ Meting follow. The rest of the day will continue with Festival batches, including Lewis Hamilton's debut, the first Forest Rally Stage, and Members’ Meeting demos before the stunning Kinrara Trophy from the 2016 Revival ends the day.
Sunday (May 10th) will bring the weekend to a high-speed climax with a day of “Goodwood’s Fastest” – a selection of our greatest high-mph moments. This kicks off with the Glover Trophy from 1999, the last time that post-’66 3.0-litre F1 cars, representing the iconic ‘return to power’, raced at the Revival. This star-studded race (with the likes of Sir Jack Brabham behind the wheel), is followed by the fastest runs from the 1999 Festival of Speed – including Nick Heidfeld’s mesmerising McLaren MP4-13 run. We’ll follow that through the day with our fastest races and demos, including the wild 2016 RAC TT Celebration (including the dramatic battle for the lead between Gordon Shedden and Giedo van der Garde) and two Festival of Speed shootouts. The day will end with the reveal of a brand new video – the fastest times ever seen at the Festival of Speed, a compilation that has had to be remade after two record-breaking years at Goodwood.
The full timetable for the weekend’s racing is below; join us here on GRR to watch Speed Weekend in full and take part in with the conversation on social media using #GoodwoodSW. After all the action is over members of the GRRC Community will be able to relive the whole thing for free.
Main image by Jayson Fong, Lewis Hamilton image courtesy of Motorsport Images.