When was goodwood 2010

Stay tuned for more! It looks quite a beast. Getting so close to these beasts is a rarity; Goodwood definitely beats Le Mans for hero worship.

That said, the Festival has grown enormously since my first trip in Has it lost some of its purity? The crowds are massive on day one when once they were minuscule a decade ago. There's sponsorship and corporate hospitality galore, yet you have to hand it to LM. It's done classily and with great attention to detail.

On balance, Goodwood still has style and character in spades. The glass doors are absolutely tiny and an Opel engineer helps guide me in.

Let's brush over a small low-speed nudge of wing mirror — the doors on this tent are seriously tiny! No harm done. I hand over the keys and come away quietly impressed by the Ampera. I've followed this from day one, when the Chevy Volt was first shown in Detroit in These range-extending hybrids seem to me like a very good solution, although the prices will have to fall before they gain mainstream appeal.

I can see what he means about spending most of the time looking through the side windows. He tells me that he especially likes the first two corners of the course. Cheers Mike — you've given one of our readers a day he'll never forget. Tug it into D and we're off, silently creeping to our starting place at the foot of Lord March's drive. There are only two cars ahead of me, including the taxi with a Lotus-derived fuel cell.

Sadly it pulls over at the side of the road and we're waved past. It's my first run up the hill. Thankfully in an automatic electric vehicle, few can expect doughnuts or burn-outs, so I simply mash the throttle and We must be hitting mph by the first corner, so I brake weird pedal feel and haul the Ampera into the first corner as Goodwood House looms.

I keep remembering the price and the roly-poly, US-spec suspension. We're wallowing and pitching through every corner and even with full EV charge, our pace is at best sedate.

Still, what a way to go up the hill. You can read more about that car here: Banned! Gas turbine engines. After the death of Colin Chapman in the team fell into decline. The and show the old team in its death throes — particularly the car, which Nelson Piquet and Satoru Nakajima failed to qualify at Spa that year. Read more: Great F1 cars of the last six decades: Lotus Another of the grand old names of the sport.

The F is arguably the first great car of the world championship. Great F1 cars of the last six decades: Maserati F. Jackie Stewart won his first world championship in this car, run by Ken Tyrrell. Hamilton and team mate Jenson Button will get to drive another championship-winning turbo-powered McLaren — the MPC which took Alain Prost to his second title in Bruno Senna , meanwhile, will drive the car his uncle won his final races with in — including that remarkable triumph in the Donington drizzle.

GP2 front runner Sam Bird will sample an M23, model which started 80 races in the s, delivering championship titles for Emerson Fittipaldi and James Hunt. Read more: Hamilton and Button to drive Prost?

Juan Manuel Fangio won the championship in and driving a W Mika Hakkinen, who also won two world championships with Mercedes power, will drive this car, as will Goodwood hillclimb record-holder Nick Heidfeld. The only Porsche to win a round of the world championship will be present.

Dan Gurney won the French Grand Prix with this car. Star designer Adrian Newey will sample one of his most recent creations, driving the RB5 which won six races last year.

The car Ayrton Senna made his F1 debut in will be on the hill — see here for some early pictures of this unmistakeably eighties creation. The sublime and the ridiculous from Tyrrell: Jackie Stewart won his final world championship in a in Three years later the team produced and won one race with the bizarre six-wheeled P The Williams FW08 was the last normally-aspirated car to win the world championship before the turbo brigade took over.

McLaren will demonstrate their first road car since the F1 in public for the first time. The sports prototype designed by Ross Brawn in to beat the Mercedes driven by, among others, Michael Schumacher.

A gorgeous creation, find pictures of it here. It was produced for Mercedes designer Rudolf Uhlenhaut, who created, among others, the W Got a potential story, tip or enquiry? Find out more about RaceFans and contact us here. US Williams Fan 23rd June , Macca macca 2nd July , Kate 23rd June , Keith Collantine keithcollantine 23rd June , BasCB 23rd June , Tim 23rd June , I would love to be at Goodwood next weekend but it clashes with my wedding anniversary and other family events.

Quite why the HSCC thinks it makes good sense to run a high profile meeting including historic F1 and sportcar races in direct competition with the Festival is entirely beyond me.

Not that I could go to the Superprix either, of course. I thoroughly recommend the Superprix if anyone is minded to go — a more limited selection of old F1 cars than at Goodwood, but you get to see and hear them race one another. Formula 2 and F are pretty spectacular as well. Seeing the old Can-Am cars last year was incredible. That is odd. Taking place at what is often described as 'the world's most beautiful racecourse' the five-day Festival Meeting is a riot of colour, fashion, famous faces and spectacular hats.

A firm fixture in the English summer Season for years, all of society's cognoscenti descend on Goodwood each year to revel in its ravishing setting as well as to marvel at the world's top jockeys, trainers and horses as they battle it out on top of the Sussex Downs.

Goodwood History. Formal horseracing began at Goodwood in , with the first running of a principal race, the Goodwood Cup, a decade later. Throughout the nineteenth century, several of the principal races, which today continue to be key fixtures of the Goodwood season, were established.