The Goodwood Festival of Speed 2013 was held July 11-14 at Goodwood House and the 1.16-mile Goodwood hill climb in West Sussex, England. A record total of more than 195,000 attendees visited this year’s event, with more than 150 star drivers and riders present, plus over 500 interesting and diverse vehicles, as Goodwood celebrated the 20th anniversary of the popular motorsports gathering.
The 20th annual Festival saw the biggest, best, fastest, loudest and most outrageous vehicles of all time invited back to Goodwood to help celebrate the birthday. Goodwood also honored the 90th anniversary of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, 60 years of the World Sports Car Championship, the 50th anniversaries of the Porsche 911, McLaren, Lamborghini, Mini Cooper S, Ford Lotus Cortina and the European Touring Car Championship and the 40th birthday of the World Rally Championship.
Goodwood dedicated the 50th anniversary of the Porsche 911 with a bespoke 911-inspired sculpture, displayed, as has become the tradition, quite prominently outside Goodwood House. Twice each day the hill climb played host to a dedicated class of road and race going 911s, covering all seven generations of this iconic rear-engined sports car from Germany. Further examples of significant Porsche competition cars including the 917, 936 and 956 were also featured. At the wheel were a variety of famous drivers with strong affinity to Porsche, including two-time winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours and German Touring Car Champion, Hans-Joachim Stuck, Porsche Supercup factory Junior driver Michael Christensen, alongside former works aces Richard Attwood and Vic Elford.
There was an exhibition of timeless red and blue striped livery of Martini Racing cars, in celebration of the Italian drinks brand’s 150-year heritage, the Land Speed Legends Display, which featured masterpieces conceived to break world records and the collection of McLaren Racing machines on the hill, from the 1964 McLaren-Oldsmobile M1A right up to the latest cutting-edge MP4-12C GT3.
Crowds were left speechless by the staggering wheelies as Bob Riggle’s 1500bhp ‘Hemi Under Glass’ 1965 Plymouth Barracuda became airborne and the rear laid a succession of sparks along the rubber coated Tarmac. In addition, Peter Fonda was found waving to the crowds from his Easy Rider Harley-Davidson chopper, the mighty Vulcan bomber was roaring overhead and current Formula 1 drivers were tearing up the course in the latest F1 machinery.
The Sunday Shootout competition was won by Justin Law in his Jaguar XJR8/9, with Law posting a quick time of 45.95 seconds up the 1.16-mile Hill Climb course. In second place (47.32 secs) was the impressive Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak car driven by Gregory Guilvert, who just beat squeezed by Jonny Cocker in the unconventional yet technically impressive Lola-Drayson (47.34 secs). Closing in was fourth place Alex Buncombe who also reached a sub-48 time of 47.79 seconds in a Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3. However, the overall Festival Fastest Time of Day of 45.86 seconds was shared jointly by Gregory Gilvert in the Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak and the Goodwood hillclimb record holder Nick Heidfeld in a Lola-Toyota B12/60.
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Senior Photographer Tim Scott documented the 2013 Goodwood Festival of Speed, offering up a wonderful selection of images that capture the essence of “largest motoring garden party in the world”. We split up Tim’s 479 pictures into two galleries. The first gallery starting below features our favorite images, all displayed in the full-width view of Sports Car Digest, while the second gallery can be found on the last page of the article and gives a comprehensive view of all the photographs. To see more from Tim, visit fluidimages.co.uk.
Goodwood Festival of Speed 2013 – Top Photo Gallery
Making quite the statement is Bob Riggle’s 1500bhp ‘Hemi Under Glass’ 1965 Plymouth Barracuda
Mercedes-Benz W 154 Silver Arrows driven by Jochen Mass
1936 Auto Union Type C driven by Nick Mason
Alfa Romeo P3 Don Lee Special
Lotus 79
Le Mans Lagonda leads down hill
1950 Ferrari 166 MM Barchetta by Touring
Ex-Rob Walker Team, Goodwood Tourist Trophy-winning Ferrari 250 GT SWB Berlinetta Competitizone
Ex-Rob Walker Team, Goodwood Tourist Trophy-winning Ferrari 250 GT SWB Berlinetta Competitizone
AC Cobra
Full face helmets in pre-1950s cars look historically out of place. This is especially noticeable with the 1903 Mercedes 60HP. And this is Goodwood where history is a primarily on display.
Forgot to mention, the photos are great. Fantastic reportage.
Steve, the photos show the cars not simply “on display,” but going almost full clip. I’m sure that insurance regs require modern helmets. Cloth caps would be on display in static settings.
David, I am referring to full face helmets vs. open face helmets. It simply looks appropriate to use an open face helmet with an older car.
A minor but legitimate point.
The photographs are stunning. Brilliant really.
Really appreciate these photos and goes a long way to compensate for not being there. These photos are incredible and so much better than the grim video coverage I’ve seen. Thank you so very very much.
Superb photos.
What beautiful cars we had when aerodynamic meant simply streamlined. Then downforce was discovered, and that all went to hell.
Note: the Ex-Rob Walker Team, Goodwood Tourist Trophy-winning Ferrari 250 GT SWB Berlinetta Competizione now has bumpers and a radio aerial!
Is the Jaguar XJR 13 a replica, or has the original been taken out of the museum?
thank you so much from one who can’t be there. 917’s, a 300 SLR, pre-war GP cars, racing legends at the wheel. I can’t even imagine attending. You would see this 53 year old become the most excited 16 year old kid!
I can’t imagine a comment being made re Modern Helmets being worn in Goodwood Festival events. If I was fortunate enough to get a drive ,even though the cars are up to 100 years old I would like to wear the safest kit available & could not care less it it was not in keeping with the era.
My safety is paramount ——-not that I would ever get to drive any of these classics.
Goodwood is an item on my bucket list. Thanks for the previews!
Absolutely Fantastic! Shame Icould not be thre! Next time,I hope!
Superbe photos sans oublier le reportage. Excellent
Spectacular photographs, thanks for sharing them in the larger format. Next best thing to being there…
Mr. Scott’s photos are spectacular. To say I have “Goodwood envy” would be an understatement. If Mr. Scott ever needs an equipment “pack mule” to schlep his gear around Goodwood in the future then I would like to be the first to volunteer.