Rallying’s most extreme era is being celebrated at the 2016 Goodwood Festival of Speed. The short-lived Group B category was axed in 1986, but not before it left an indelible imprint on the memories of anyone who witnessed these incredible machines in their pomp.
The incredibly rare 1949 Aston Martin DB Team Car, registered ‘UMC 65’, was left in a garden for decades before being stolen some 14 years ago. Now, finally returned to its rightful owners, it has sold at Bonhams Festival of Speed Sale for £679,100.
Continue reading …The luxuriously powerful Continental GT Speed, Bentayga SUV and Flying Spur V8 S will all be presented to UK customers for the first time at the famous event.
Continue reading …Bonhams Festival of Speed sale (26 June) includes highlights: the ultimate pre-war racer, the Ex-Works Racing Aston Martin Ulster Team Car, LM19, estimate £1,600,000-2,200,000; and property of Sir Stirling Moss, the 1961 Porsche RS-61 Spyder Sports-Racing Two-Seater, estimate £1,700,000-2,000,000.
Continue reading …GP2 driver Jordan King, endurance racer Alex Buncombe and ex-touring car racer Steve Soper will be driving for JD Classics.
Continue reading …Renault will showcase over 115 years of motorsport history at the 2015 Goodwood Festival of Speed, this glittering history of innovation and success demonstrated by cars ranging from the 1902 Renault Type K to the 2005 Formula 1 Renault R25
Continue reading …This year is the 85th anniversary of that most famous Bentley Boy adventure – the Blue Train race. The car that accomplished the feat will be at GFoS running up the world-renowned, 1.16-mile hillclimb, keeping the spirit of Captain Woolf Barnato alive
Continue reading …Mazda will celebrate its motorsport heritage as Central Feature Marque at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. Born from the desire to develop, prove and showcase the rotary engine in the testing world of competition, Mazda’s involvement in motorsport has always stayed true to the spirit of ‘never stop challenging’.
Continue reading …Fitting in with the Flat-Out & Fearless theme once more, the area will host a trio of ultra-rare pre-war Vauxhalls: a 1922 TT, Vauxhall’s only Grand Prix race car; a 1930 Villiers Supercharged, with 300bhp and top speed of 150mph; and a 1910 C-10 ‘Prince Henry’, acknowledged as the first proper sports car
Continue reading …While the 2015 Goodwood Festival of Speed proudly celebrates the theme ‘Flat-Out and Fearless – Racing on the Edge’, an all-new category for the Hillclimb will celebrate those that put everything into reaching Formula 1, but never quite achieved the success that they craved.
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