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Fos 2018 Preview Edition PREVIEWFOS EDITION 2018 JULY 2018 NO. 43 1 8 9 9 1 8 — 2 0 NEWSLETTER GOODWOOD ROAD RACING CLUB Festival favourite: Jenson Button FESTIVAL OF SPEED, 12-15 JULY FASTEN UP... BUTTON’S COMING We are just days away from our Silver Jubilee Festival of Speed, the entry list is complete and many of the star cars and bikes are already at Goodwood, ready for the weekend Jenson Button, always a favourite with the Weslake, ‘96 with the Ferrari F1 team and ‘Mad’ Mike The Silver Jubilee fans, is back, this time at the wheel of a ‘98 with a Chaparral 2E and a Lotus 56 in 25 Cars great historic Grand Prix car - the Honda turbine car from the Indianapolis Hall RA301 raced in period by John Surtees. of Fame in America. A hugely loyal and enthusiastic supporter Motorcycle fans will cherish the return of the Festival, this will be Jenson’s 17th of Superbike hero Carl Fogarty, and the appearance at Goodwood. Expect to see ever-youthful Giacomo Agostini will JB up on the balcony for a chat with remind us of an era that inspired so many Mark Webber on Sunday... of the sport’s more recent champions. Porsche celebrates its 70th anniversary The Formula 1 teams will strut their with a sensational collection of cars and stuff, the line-up including Sauber-Alfa its Central Display Romeo, Red Bull, sculpture will Williams with illustrate its Nowhere else in the Robert Kubica, consistent success world will you get so McLaren with Carl Fogarty at Le Mans, in Stoffel Vandoorne, rides again sportscar racing, on close to the cars and and Mercedes- the road and in the stars Benz with rallying. Valtteri Bottas. Meanwhile, the entire Batch of cars A spectacular show is guaranteed at the dedicated to the German manufacturer halfway point of what is building up to be 70 Years of includes its Formula 1 winner — the 804 a tremendous season of Grand Prix racing. Porsche — and many other rarely seen machines. Nowhere else in the world will you get As well as bringing its competition cars, so close to the cars and the stars. Porsche will also challenge for fastest time When it comes to spectacle few can in the Supercar Shootout with the latest challenge Kiwi ‘Mad’ Mike Whiddett who incarnation of its legendary 911. The will be out to win the ‘power slide of the fastest ever Porsche, the new 919 EVO, weekend’ competition. will also be out on the Hill. So, we look forward to seeing you all for To mark the Silver Jubilee, we will relive what is sure to be a Festival of Speed to some of the greatest moments from the remember. Don’t forget, there’s a photo last 25 years, remembering 1993 with a call for GRRC Members at the Porsche V16 BRM, ‘95 with Dan Gurney’s Eagle- sculpture on Thursday at midday. PAGE 1 GRRC Newsletter_JULY 2018 Rev6.indd 5 02/07/2018 10:55 PREVIEWFOS EDITION 2018 HOW TO PLAN YOUR FESTIVAL WEEKEND THURSDAY TICKETS As part of your 2018 Membership, you are entitled to complimentary tickets to the opening day of the Festival of Speed on 12 July. These tickets must be booked in advance through the Customer Sales Team on +44 (0)1243 755055. We would also like to invite all Members into the Kinrara Enclosure on Thursday. Please ensure you are wearing your lapel badge, which will gain access for yourself and one guest. LOCKER USAGE Lockers are available in the Kinrara and GRRC Enclosures, but please bear in mind that the numbers are limited, and they will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please remember to return your key at the end of each day. 20TH ANNIVERSARY PHOTO Join the GRRC for a 20th Anniversary photo under the Porsche Central Feature on Thursday 12 July at 12.00hrs. Due to capacity, this exclusive photo will be for GRRC Members only, and you must wear your GRRC lapel badge to be included. Q&A SESSIONS Don’t miss our fantastic Festival Q&A sessions with leading motorsport personalities. These will take place daily in the Kinrara and GRRC Enclosures. Please check at the reception desks for more information and timings. PROGRAMMES Half-price programmes are only available on a pre-order basis via the website ticketing area (remember to login as a Member) or by calling the Customer Sales Team on +44 (0)1243 755055. You will be issued with a voucher, which you can redeem from a programme collection point on the Festival site. GRRC LAPEL BADGE Don’t forget your 2018 GRRC badge. This is the only way for you and your guests to access the Kinrara enclosure on Thursday and the GRRC Enclosure throughout the event. FORWARD PARKING As a GRRC Member you can park in the forward areas of the car parks. Spaces fill up quickly, so arrive early, and ensure you have your green 2018 GRRC sticker on display. Cars displaying a Blue Badge will be directed to a dedicated area. To find out more about everything that is happening at FoS this year visit: www.goodwood.com GRRC Newsletter_JULY 2018 Rev6.indd 6 02/07/2018 10:55 HOW TO PLAN YOUR FESTIVAL FOS 2018 WEEKEND PREVIEW EDITION The Silver Jubilee Festival of Speed is just days away and I’ve been thinking back to our very first one in June 1993. It was just two days then, with some practice on the Saturday, and timed runs on Sunday. Of course, there was no Central Feature, just a tiny exhibition area, and not enough loos! I will never forget that first morning, looking out of my bedroom window, and seeing thousands of fans coming up Cathedral Walk towards the House. We really had no idea how many people would come, no idea if Goodwood still meant anything to anyone in terms of cars and motorsport. We soon found out, and were blown away by the excitement and enthusiasm. We were advised that 3-4000 might come, but the figure was more like 25,000! Everything has changed and yet nothing has changed. The ethos of the Festival remains exactly as it was all those years ago. The event is still driven by content and design, and we still aim to make the absolute best cars and motorcycles as accessible as possible. Just as importantly, we strive to get the right drivers and riders into those cars, and onto those bikes. The Festival is bigger, has more breadth and depth, but the growth has been organic and gradual. Thanks to your support, your enthusiasm and your response to what we do, we will hopefully celebrate our Silver Jubilee in style. Be prepared for a lot of noise and a lot of dramatic action. THE DUKE OF RICHMOND FOS 2018 JULY 2018 N o . 43 1 8 9 9 1 PREVIEW EDITION 8 — 2 0 FESTIVAL OF SPEED, 12-15 JULY RALLY CELEBRATION Colin McRae and Richard Burns are being celebrated up on the Forest Rally Stage in honour of their relationship with the Festival of Speed in the early SPOTLIGHT years. Expect to see many of the drivers’ most important cars, and interviews with the people who PORSCHE 919 EVO knew them best. Time attack Porsche, based on its successful LMP1 challenger, takes a break from smashing circuit records to make a trip to the Festival PASSENGER RIDES There is a new pasenger experience on the Off-Road Based on Porsche’s 2-litre turbo LMP1 challenger from 2017, Arena in two-seater, 1000cc, the EVO is essentially a restriction-free time off-road buggies. They will be operating on all attack car. In April this year it was nearly 0.8 seconds faster four days - go to the around Spa than Lewis Hamilton’s 2017 F1 pole time, and Off-Road Arena for over 12 seconds faster than the standard 919 Hybrid’s more information. 2017 World Endurance Championship pole lap. It has since smashed the Nürburgring Nordschleife record as well: Stefan Bellof set a marker of 6m 11.13s, in a 956 ESCORT in qualifying for the 1983 Nürburgring 1000km. It now ANNIVERSARY stands at a truly astonishing 5m 19.546s. Ffity years of Britain’s The numbers behind the EVO are staggering: it weighs Ford Escort is being 849kg (39kg lighter than before), it develops 720bhp from the celebrated with a special V4 engine and has an extra 400bhp from its electric motors. class of cars on the Forest Rally Stage. There will be Compare to its LMP1 cousin, it has 53 per cent more downforce, 12 of the most important it’s 66 per cent more aerodynamically efficient and can use 8.49 examples of the model attacking megajoules of recovered energy. Search for ‘Porsche 919 EVO the Stage every day of the Festival. Nordschleife’ on YouTube to see it. BTCC SHOOTOUT The BTCC Shootout is back! A selection of the top current teams and drivers will be fighting for the fastest time on the Hill on Sunday THE BORG-WARNER TROPHY afternoon. Andrew Jordan won the A rare trip across the Atlantic for one of the most famous trophies in inaugural class last year and remains the one to beat come 15 July. motorsport sees the Borg-Warner at Goodwood House A slice of Indianapolis is coming to the Festival of Speed in the shape of the Borg-Warner Trophy. The Borg- DRIFT Warner Corporation (now BorgWarner Inc.) commis- Don’t miss the drift cars returning to the Festival of Speed - they have been a sioned the Trophy in 1935 for the winner of the Indi- highlight for the past four years.
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