The 2013 running of the Goodwood Festival of Speed featured
hundreds of great cars, motorcycles, drivers and riders taking to the 1.16-mile
Goodwood hill climb during the Festival weekend. The record 196,000 spectators
at the 20th Anniversary Festival were treated to some truly exceptional sights
and sounds as they basked in the blazing sunshine of Britain’s warmest weekend
so far this year.
Highlights at this year’s Festival of Speed included a
massive, triumphant-looking sculpture outside Goodwood House to celebrate the
50th Anniversary of the 911, as well as the fine selection of significant
racing Porsches that took to the Festival hill climb. 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 McLaren, Lamborghini, Mini
Cooper S, Ford Lotus Cortina and the European Touring Car Championship as well
as the 40th birthday of the World Rally Championship.
We typically narrow down our Festival of Speed “Cars of
Interest’ to a list of twenty, but for this 20th Anniversary running of the
Goodwood Festival of Speed, we just couldn’t do it. With more than 500 examples
of biggest, best, fastest, loudest and most outrageous vehicles of all time
invited back to Goodwood, such a selection made it almost too difficult to
choose even thirty, but we gave it our best effort. Given the particular focus
on Porsche, we paid extra attention to those famous cars from Stuttgart that
powered their way up the hill at Goodwood, but if we missed your favorite, we
certainly welcome your comments below.
Senior Photographer Tim Scott also provided the
following images of our Top Cars of Interest
1957 Maserati 250F Lightweight – Juan Manuel Fangio
piloted this 250F to his fifth and final Formula 1 World Championship. Chassis
number 2529, the curator of which is Swiss classic car specialist, Lukas Huni,
is the 250F in which Fangio won the 1957 Argentine, French and German Grands Prix,
clinching the Championship with his 24th and last GP victory at Nurburgring. In
the race, he beat Mike Hawthorn and Peter Collins on the penultimate lap after
a minute-long pit stop that had placed him a long way behind the British pair,
which were running non-stop, in their Lancia-Ferrari V8 F1 cars.
1938 Mercedes-Benz W154 Silver Arrows – Driven by
Jochen Mass at Goodwood, the dominant W154 gave the Mercedes-Benz racing
department its greatest number of victories during the Silver Arrows era. Mercedes-Benz
won almost all major competitions in the 1938 season and in 1939, the final
racing season before the Second World War, Manfred von Brauchitsch, Rudolf
Caracciola, and Hermann Lang repeated their triumphs of the previous year in
the W154.
1963 Aston Martin DP214 – Based on DB4GT chassis, Aston
Martin produced two Project 214 models to compete with Ferrari and others at
races like Le Mans.
1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 – Driven by Stirling Moss at
Goodwood, a sister car sold for nearly $30 million at the Bonhams Goodwood sale.
1917 Miller Aerodynamic Coupe – The Golden Submarine
first appeared at Goodwood in 1996. The 4-cylinder powered streamlined racing
car was designed and built by Fred Offenhauser and Harry Miller for Barney
Oldfield. The car competed in 54 races with 20 wins.
1995 McLaren F1 GTR – Won the 1995 Le Mans 24 Hours at
the hands of Yannick Dalmas, Masanori Sekiya and J.J. Lehto.
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