Ok, this is one of those gearhead videos that comes out of the ‘chute hot and continues to be awesome all the way through. You are going to watch he 10 fastest runs in the history of the Goodwood Festival of Speed, an event which highlights how great motorsports were in the past and how great they are now. The sound and the lineup of vehicles is what makes this video over the top. Where else to you get to see a Jag IMSA racer, a Tyrrell P34, a crazy Toyota hillclimb truck, and various other hot rods being run as hard and fast as they can, basically in the name of fun.
Some would call this whole thing dumb because what’s the point, right? You are racing up a rich guy’s driveway effectively, so why bother. Those people need to move right the hell along because the facts are that these cars represent pinnacles of engineering achievement in their time and when you see the tight grouping that exists between the first and last runs, you’ll understand how bad ass they all are.
The last point is that it does take balls to do this because there are some famously hard objects in the way on the trip. There’s the huge stone wall for starters and over the years people have wrecked some stuff with force while attempting to make the haul at full throttle.
Driving talent, awesome cars, and historically low elapsed time. Yes!
This is on the “life list” of events I would like to attend. It won’t be cheap, that’s a given, but the cars, planes, atmosphere, and enthusiasm of those attending undoubtedly makes this an epic experience. That said, has anybody here actually attended this already? Was it worth it?
I attended the next best thing, The Monterey Historic’s in ’97 . I couldn’t get a hotel room (3 night minimum at $100 plus per night) so I slept in the back seat of the car behind a Shell station for 2 nights. Worth every penny! I would love to go to Goodwood also.
This event is on my bucket list…
This is on Crusty’s bucket list for sure, if I can only see one more motorsport event before I die this is it for sure.