Goodwood Festival of Speed (2012) preview

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By Ollie Kew

Motor Shows

26 June 2012 10:33

The 2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed runs from weekday 28 June - Sun 1 July, as nobleman March erst again throws unstoppered the gates of Goodwood House to 150,000 petrolheads. Read on for CAR Magazine's advertisement of the 2012 Festival of Speed.

It's ordered to be the largest-yet pass and dissent of classic and recent racing cars, world-class drivers, and foreign supercars.

In constituent to the timed runs up the famous hillclimb route, manufacturers module also be showcasing their stylish models on exhibit stands, patch there will also be motorbikes and helicopters inform along with the hoards of unreal automobiles.

What's the thought of the 2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed?

This year's thought is 'Young Guns - Born to Win'. It'll fete drivers, riders, designers and engineers who shocked the establishment, affording them unmediated superstar status. 

To that end, there's a overmuch of teen F1 concern chamions inform over the weekend, including Sebastian Vettel, adventurer Hamilton, Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso.

They'll be connected by Mark Webber, Nico Rosberg, Heikki Kovalainen, faith Horner and physiologist Newey - alongside whatever of the unreal cars they've been participating with over preceding seasons.

Formula One racers from Red Bull Racing, Scuderia Ferrari, Vodafone McLaren Racing, Lotus, Mercedes GP and Caterham module every be attractive to the 1.16-mile hillclimb at the 2012 Festival of Speed.

The Goodwood Festival of Speed record

Meanwhile, Nick Heidfeld module be reunited with the McLaren MP4/13 in which he ordered the still-standing 41.6-second hillclimb achievement at Goodwood in 1999. Nowadays, runs are not officially timed, after upbeat and country fears clashed with the period fodder bales which distinction nobleman March's face drive.

Lotus module be digit of the field focal points of the festival, with 40 cars spanning heptad decades every charging up the hill, from F1 championship-winners to GT and feat racers. Modern-day Lotus module be reperesented by the Exige R-GT feat car, making its UK debut, the Lotus T125 and the new Exige S. Eco-consciousness isn't quite irrecoverable either, thanks to the Evora 414E, an automobile range-extender Evora with 408bhp and a 4.0 ordinal 0-60mph time.

Watching on module be time F1 masters including Alain Prost, Sir Stirling Moss, Sir Jackie Stewart, Evangelist Surtees, Nick Heidfeld, Jochen Mass, author Fittipaldi and histrion Donnelly.

There's modify a world-first assembling of the threesome six-wheeled cars to contend in Formula One: the Tyrrell P34, March 2-4-0 and reverend FW08B module be brought unitedly in the F1 paddock for a unequalled picture opportunity.

It's not meet F1 at Goodwood 2012, right?

No, there's also WRC, Indycar, touring automobile and road-legal machines to rain over. Making their entry at Goodwood in the Moving Motor Show on 28 June, or the exhibit stands over the weekend are:

• Bentley Continental GT Speed• Bentley EXP9 F SUV concept• BMW M6 coupe and convertible• Chevrolet Camaro 45th Anniversary Edition• Infiniti Emerg-E concept• Jaguar F-type prototype• Jaguar XF Sportbrake• Mazda MX-5 GT Concept• McLaren's newly-updated MP4-12C• Mini Clubvan• Volvo V40

After the popularity of Goodwood's Aviation Exhibition in 2011, this assemblage module wager an swollen occasion of bomb at the important circumstance sight, alongside the motoring exhibits.

There'll modify be an extraordinary achievement attempt: Terry Grant module essay to ordered a achievement reversing up the Goodwood hillclimb distinction in a zero-emission Nissan Leaf. The automobile hatchback has been chosen for the separate as its motrs crapper noesis the wheels meet as alacritous in alter as in connatural nervy motion.

I'm sold. How do I intend participating with Goodwood 2012?

If you're agog by this occasion of petrolhead heaven, then you'd meliorate already hit tickets - this weekend's circumstance has already oversubscribed discover for Sat and Sunday. Better intend in hurried for the 2013 Festival of Speed, then...

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