Goodwood Festival of Speed
The Goodwood Festival of Speed is an annual motorsports festival featuring modern and historic motor racing vehicles taking part in a hill climb and other events, held in Goodwood House, West Sussex, England, in late June or early July. The event is scheduled to avoid clashing with the Formula One season, enabling fans to see F1 machines as well as cars and motorbikes from motor racing history climb the hill.
Festival of Speed, 2011 | |
| Location | Goodwood House, West Sussex, England |
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| Time zone | BST |
| Owner | Charles Gordon-Lennox, 11th Duke of Richmond |
| Opened | 1993 |
| Major events | Goodwood Festival of Speed |
| Website | https://www.goodwood.com/ |
| Hillclimb | |
| Length | 1.86 km (1.16 miles) |
| Turns | 9 |
| Race lap record | 0:39.081 (Max Chilton, McMurtry Spéirling, 2022) |
| Forest Rally Stage | |
| Length | 2.5 km (1.5 miles) |
In the early years of the Festival, tens of thousands attended over the weekend. As of 2014 it attracted crowds of around 100,000 on each of the three days it was held. A record crowd of 158,000 attended in 2003, before an advance-ticket-only admission policy came into force; attendance was subsequently capped at 150,000.
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