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Goodwood Festival of Speed and Revival 2017 Dates Announced

Provisional 2017 dates for Goodwood’s flagship motorsport events – the Festival of Speed and Revival – have today been announced as:

Goodwood Festival of Speed - 22-25 June 2017
Goodwood Revival - 8-10 September 2017

These dates are provisional and subject to change.

The 75th Members’ Meeting date is already confirmed as 18-19 March 2017, and will not change.

Tickets for the 75th Members’ Meeting are currently available only to Goodwood Road Racing Club Members. Remaining tickets will be made available to the Goodwood Road Racing Club waiting list from 31 October 2016, with a strictly limited number available to the general public from 2 January 2017.
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The S.F. Edge Trophy returns for the Goodwood 75th Members’ Meeting

11th October 2016

Plans for the 75th Goodwood Members’ Meeting are hotting-up, with the hugely popular S.F. Edge Trophy confirmed to be back in the event line-up, taking place over 18-19 March 2017.

The S.F. Edge Trophy will again feature all manner of eccentric Edwardian leviathans wielding aircraft engines, manual fuel pumps and lanterns, racing improbably fast around the famous Goodwood Motor Circuit. Named after Australian born British businessman and race driver Selwyn Francis Edge, the race will be spectacular to behold.

The Gerry Marshall Trophy will also be back by popular demand, in celebration of the best of 1970s and early ’80s saloons from the Mini 1275 GTs to the Chevrolet Camero Z28s, promising to be full of drama.
For bike fans the noisy Hailwood Trophy will again feature late ’70s and early ’80s two-stroke race bikes, with the likes of Yamaha TZGs and T2350Gs roaring around the track.

The S.F. Edge, Gerry Marshall and Hailwood Trophy races are all outside of the Goodwood Revival period, bringing new and exciting content to please the Goodwood Motor Circuit crowd.

Tickets for the 75th Members’ Meeting are currently available only to Goodwood Road Racing Club Members. Remaining tickets will be made available to the Goodwood Road Racing Club waiting list from 31 October 2016, with a strictly limited number available to the general public from 2 January 2017.
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New dates for the 2017 FOS:

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FESTIVAL OF SPEED NEW DATE CONFIRMATION
29 June – 2 July 2017

As Christmas fast approaches, it brings with it confirmation of the 2017 Formula 1 calendar. This new calendar reveals the Baku race has moved one week later and therefore the previously announced provisional dates for the 2017 Festival of Speed will change, and are now confirmed as June 29th to July 2nd. This will allow the F1 teams and drivers to be present so you can get up close to the amazing cars and watch as they put on an incredible display roaring up the Hillclimb.
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RACE-FORMAT CHANGES FOR THE POPULAR GERRY MARSHALL TROPHY AT THE 75th GOODWOOD MEMBERS’ MEETING.

Friday 13th January 2017

Since the revival of the sell-out Goodwood Members’ Meeting in 2014, the Gerry Marshall Trophy has proved to be one of the most anticipated and spectacular races at this annual March event.

For this year’s 75th Members’ Meeting, taking place over the weekend of 18-19 March 2017, the format of the Gerry Marshall Trophy race for Group 1 production saloons of the 1970s and early ’80s will differ from previous years, but with the racing set to be as exciting as ever.

For the first time, the Gerry Marshall Trophy becomes a one-hour, two-driver race. The Group 1 saloons will be taken into battle by a wealth of famous drivers into dusk on Saturday, evoking memories of the legendary Spa 24 Hours, ahead of the evening’s lively entertainment and fireworks.

On the Sunday, the inaugural Gerry Marshall Sprint will form the second-leg of this touring-car epic. Taking inspiration from the current British Touring Car Championship, this race will feature a reversed grid, with the owners taking over, their starting position determined by the car’s result from the Gerry Marshall Trophy.

Only cars running at the finish of the Saturday-evening Trophy race, and those that competed 95 per cent of the Saturday winner’s race distance, will be reversed. All others will start the Sunday Sprint from their Saturday Trophy finish or non-finish position.

Always popular with Members’ Meeting spectators, the Gerry Marshall line-up will include a number of famous Group 1 racing tin-tops, all sporting their correct period sponsor livery, including Ford Escorts and Capris, Chevrolet Camaros, Mini 1275 GTs, Rover SD1s and Triumph Dolomite Sprints, sharing track space with other memorable marques such as Alfa Romeos, BMWs, Mazdas and Volkswagens.

One Group 1 racer expected to make its Goodwood racing debut will be the ex-Gerry Marshall Vauxhall Magnum DTV, in which he took a class victory, and second place overall, at the 1977 Spa 24 Hours. This well-known Vauxhall was sold by Goodwood partner Bonhams at its sale of Historic Motor Cars during last year’s 74th Members’ Meeting, with the car being prepared since then ready to compete at this year’s event. A trio of period competition Ford Capris is also set to race for the very first time at the Members’ Meeting.

Among the many star drivers contesting the Gerry Marshall Trophy will be tin-top favourites Andrew Jordan, Tim Harvey, Patrick Watts and Stuart Graham and numerous other race aces.
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FOS latest

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Goodwood Announces the 2017 Festival of Speed Theme, “Peaks of Performance – Motorsport’s Game-Changers”.

Goodwood can today announce that the theme for the 2017 Goodwood Festival of Speed will be “Peaks of Performance – Motorsport’s Game-Changers”.

The 2017 Festival of Speed will celebrate racing machines that were so fast, powerful, expensive or complicated that the rules had to be changed to rein them in. These are the high-watermarks of motorsport; cars and motorcycles that left an indelible mark on the history of the sport.

The event will showcase the greatest examples of this theme, including monstrous unlimited sportscars, 1930s-era 750kg Grand Prix cars, Group B rally monsters, and ground-effect and turbo-powered F1 brutes.

Alongside this central theme, the 2017 Festival will also feature a glittering array of cars and motorcycles from a huge variety of disciplines, further enhancing the Festival of Speed’s reputation as an event unlike any other in the world.

The 2017 Goodwood Festival of Speed will be from 29th June to 2nd July.

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Stunning field of Franco-Italian pre-war racers to do battle in all-new Varzi Trophy at 75th Members’ Meeting.

A brand-new race for French and Italian pre-war Grand Prix and Voiturette machines has joined the roster for the 75th Members’ Meeting, taking place at the Goodwood Motor Circuit on March 18th-19th.

Named in honour of Italian superstar Achille Varzi, who switched from motorcycles to cars in the late 1920s and achieved great success for Alfa Romeo, Auto Union and Bugatti during the 1930s, the Varzi Trophy will form part of the 12-race programme during the Springtime spectacular.

Catering for cars that competed up to 1939, the race will feature a mouth-watering line-up comprising beauties from Alfa Romeo, Bugatti, Delahaye, Maserati and Talbot-Lago.

Members and racegoers at the 75th Members’ Meeting, the fourth of the Motor Circuit’s recreations of the 71 period BARC Members’ Meetings, will be able to ogle 8C 2300 and 2600 Monzas and P3 Tipo Bs from Alfa Romeo, all the important racing Bugattis, Types 35, 35B, 51 and 59/50B, a Delahaye 135S and classic Maseratis in the shape of 4CM, 4CS, 6CM, 8CL, 8CM and V8 RI and a T150C from Talbot-Lago.
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