FESTIVAL OF SPEED
British festival of iconic automobiles
Mark Smyth reports on some of the highlights of this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK
If you have ever been to Goodwood Festival of Speed then you will know that picking highlights is no easy thing. The venue is the massive estate belonging to Lord March, Duke of Richmond in the south of England, a picturesque spot of quintessential rolling English hills replete with stately homes, postcard cottages and sprawling lawns. The estate also has a racetrack and a horseracing track but the focus for the festival is the 1.86km hillclimb route.
The highlights begin the minute you walk through the gate. Actually, they begin before you even get to the gate because the car park is full of iconic automobiles. People drive their supercars and classics in from all over the UK and Europe. Once through the gate you are greeted by the performance car parking area with a line of Paganis, a line of McLarens and another of Lamborghinis and Porsches. A chap arrived in his Aston Martin DB5 Superleggera and we found him putting the child seats in the boot. Then it’s past the paddocks ...
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