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LORD
MARCH ANNOUNCES HIGHLIGHTS FOR
THE
2012 GOODWOOD MOTOR SPORT SEASON
Late
last week the Earl of March – founder of the annual Festival of
Speed (28 June – 1 July) and Goodwood Revival (14 – 16 September)
– announced some of the news highlights for this season’s
Goodwood events. These include:
2012
Festival of Speed Highlights:
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| Very young guns heading for the revival. |
-At
least seven current Formula
One teams attending and in
action, including the very first Goodwood appearance for double F1
World Champion Sebastian
Vettel, along with the Red
Bull Racing team and his team mate Mark Webber. Expect to see other
top teams and drivers at the Festival too, with more names due to be
confirmed shortly. Sebastian Vettel’s Goodwood attendance links in
perfectly with the 2012 Festival
of Speed theme - ‘Young Guns – Born to Win’.
-The
Cartier ‘Style et Luxe’ is one
of the World’s finest automotive concours d’elegance car design
competitions, and for 2012, a unique gathering of vehicles will be
brought together to mark Her
Majesty The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
All vehicles will have a direct connection with Her Majesty, with
most never or rarely seen in public before. These will range from
formal State limousines, through to personal cars, an aircraft and
even a Royal train carriage.
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| Lotus will feature prominently |
-The
2012 Festival of Speed will honour one
of Britain’s most iconic and innovative sports car brands –
Lotus.
The Company’s past, present and future will be celebrated with the
main Central Feature ‘installation’ outside Goodwood House, plus
at least 50 significant Lotus race and road cars in action and on
display during the Festival weekend.
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| Festival favourite, Dougie lampkin will perform. Girls not nessasarily included. |
-The
2012 Festival will see expansions and enhancements to the GAS
(Goodwood Action Sports) arena, the relocation of the Goodwood
Aviation Exhibition within
the Festival Parkland, near the Moving Motor Show, plus the largest
collection of two-stroke
competition motorcycles
ever assembled at the event.
2012
Goodwood Revival Highlights:
-An
at-speed demonstration of the breath-taking Silver
Arrows Mercedes-Benz and
Auto Union competition cars 75 years after their memorable race in
the UK at Donington.
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| The cobra will also be a main feature at the Revival. Lord March and girls not necessarily taking part. |
-Fiftieth
anniversary celebrations
for the Ferrari 250 GTO,
with plans for a daily parade of at least half the total GTO
production, plus an all-AC
Cobra race to mark the
first half-century of the iconic Anglo-American sports car.
-A
daily tribute to American
racer Dan Gurney, 50 years
after taking his first Grand Prix victory.
-Two
very special races, with the Nine
Hours night race, 60 years
after this first Goodwood race into the dark, plus a new Goodwood
competition, the Settrington
Cup, being held for young
drivers in Austin J40 pedal
cars!
There
will be many other features and attractions to this year’s Goodwood
motor sport event, with more details to follow over the coming weeks
and months.
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JAGUAR TAKES
ON THE GOODWOOD HILL AS 2012 FESTIVAL OF SPEED IS LAUNCHED
The Jaguar XF-R looks right at home on the Goodwood Hillclimb
The Jaguar XFR has taken
on the notorious Goodwood Hill at the launch of the 2012 Festival of
Speed.
The demonstration
runs provided a suitably dramatic start to
the preview event for the 2012 running of the Festival of Speed –
set to take place between June 28 and July 1.
The theme for the
2012 Festival is 'Young Guns – Born to Win' celebrating young
drivers, riders, designers and engineers in every aspect of the
automotive world. This theme is echoed by the recent steps taken by
Jaguar Land Rover to recruit hundreds of new graduates in every part
of the business, encouraging them to contribute to, and play a key
part in, JLR's ambitious plans for the future.
In 2011 the Festival
celebrated 50 years of the E-type in spectacular style with a
28-metre sculpture of the iconic sports car forming the centrepiece
of the event that saw significant Jaguars including the XJ13, C-, D-
and, of course, E-type being driven in anger in front of crowds
numbering in excess of 175,000 people.
Once again Jaguar is proud
to play a role in the Festival of Speed with vehicles from the past
and a little way into the future promising to take part in the
notorious run up to Goodwood Hill.
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Racing
Ahead : Keeping
Britain at the front of global motor sport
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| Lord March (Left) and Colin Hilton, MSA Chief Executive. |
Established
by Motor Sports Association and Motorsport Industry Association –
the two leading bodies in UK motor sport – as an integral part of
National Motorsport Week 2012, the new scheme is titled ‘Racing
Ahead – keeping Britain at the front of global motor sport’
and will reward and inspire a select band of this country’s most
promising young drivers and engineers.
As
the governing body of UK motor sport, the MSA will select six
potential future world champions from junior karting, circuit racing
and rallying. These will be joined by six of the brightest young
engineers selected by the MIA, the world’s leading trade
association representing the UK motor sport industry. The MSA’s
group will be announced shortly while the MIA will be organising a
special competition for gifted young engineers via the new National
Motorsport Week website which also was launched at Goodwood’s media
preview event.
The
12 members of the Racing Ahead initiative will experience a full
programme of activities during National Motorsport Week (30 June-8
July) including visits to both the Goodwood Festival of Speed and the
Santander British Grand Prix at Silverstone. They will also enjoy
exclusive tours of the UK’s premier Formula One factories and World
Rally Championship teams aimed at providing invaluable insights into
the sport and industry.
“National
Motorsport Week is about raising awareness of the UK’s leading
position in world motor sport, as well as giving people the chance to
try our sport for the first time,” explained Colin Hilton, MSA
Chief Executive. “We may have produced more Formula One World
Champions than any other country, but we face increasingly strong
competition from other nations, so we cannot afford to be complacent.
The MSA is committed to investing in future champions because it is
fundamental to our objective to lead and develop the sport at both
international and grass roots levels.”
In
2011, the MSA joined forces with MIA to promote the annual National
Motorsport Week and the creation of Racing Ahead is another product
of this teamwork to promote the unrivalled status of UK motor sport.
“The UK motor sport industry is booming, during otherwise uncertain times,” said Chris Aylett, MIA CEO. “Customers, from all over the world, realising the exceptional quality, value and expertise of UK motor sport products and services, are spending their hard won budgets here in Motorsport Valley. Jobs are growing in engineering and the sport to meet this increased demand. We particularly need more young, well-trained, engineers and technicians so we stay ahead in this race for business. As part of National Motorsport Week, the MIA will shortly announce details of an exciting national competition for all young engineers looking to get into motor sport. The six selected winners will join this special Racing Ahead scheme and thus gain a great head start to their careers.”
Full
details of the competition will be revealed on the new National
Motorsport Week website which has been developed by web specialists
mso.net and is launched simultaneously with Racing Ahead. The new
look site includes information on how all involved in the sport can
take full advantage of the promotional period and will also list all
the special events taking place during NMW 2012. Appropriately the
week commences with the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the world’s
greatest celebration of past and present automotive culture.
“We
are delighted that the Festival of Speed will kick off this year’s
National Motorsport Week – more so as the Racing Ahead initiative,
which is being set up to highlight many of the next generation of
drivers and engineers, ties in so well with our own ‘Young Guns –
Born to Win’ theme that we are celebrating at the Festival in
June,” confirmed Lord March, founder of the Goodwood Festival of
Speed.
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FORD FOCUS ST IN FILM STAR ROLE AT THE GOODWOOD FESTIVAL OF SPEED
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| Lights, Camera, Action!! |
Ford's
first global performance car is previewing its starring role in new
film blockbuster The
Sweeney at
the Goodwood
Festival of Speed this summer.
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| The Focus ST and Jaguar waltz around Goodwood's hillclimb |
Stunt
drivers will take the place of famous Flying Squad detectives Jack
Regan and George Carter as their black Ford Focus ST is pitted
against a Jaguar XFR up the famous Goodwood hillclimb in an exciting
chase sequence to whet the appetite ahead of the movie’s release in
September.
Ford
has been a major sponsor of the Goodwood Festival of Speed since its
inception in 1993 and it is again supporting this prestigious event
over the weekend of June 29-July 1, 2012. The Festival of Speed is
Europe's premier historic motor sporting event – a combination of
hillclimb, rally stage, garden party, and motor show, all in the
grounds of Goodwood House, the Earl of March's ancestral home in West
Sussex.
Ford
Focus ST takes centre stage
In
October 2011, special Ford Focus ST prototypes were secretly
delivered to The
Sweeney
set, joining Ford Mondeo, Galaxy and Transit models also being used
by the cast as unmarked Flying Squad vehicles.
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| Red and black... but black first. See, our colour scheme is right! |
Director
and co-writer, Nick Love, whose prior films include The
Football Factory
and
The Firm,
said: "It was important for me to collaborate with Ford on The
Sweeney as their legacy with the original TV show is so strong –
they're the perfect partner. I like the Ford Focus ST so much, I
want one!"
Ford's
strong link with the 1970s Sweeney TV series saw Regan, Carter and
their Flying Squad colleagues using a string of Ford Granada, Consul
and Cortina models to make the streets of London a safer place.
Production
Companies Vertigo and Embargo Films, used six Ford Focus ST models
during filming. Set in modern day Britain, The
Sweeney
stars Ray Winstone as Jack Regan and Ben Drew (aka Plan B) as George
Carter and also features Hayley Atwell (from Captain
America),
Damian Lewis (Homeland),
Steven Mackintosh (Underworld:
The Rise of the Lycans)
and Paul Anderson (The
Firm).
The
Sweeney
will be released in the UK in September.
Ford at the Goodwood Festival of Speed
Ford's
motorsport heritage is unparalleled: there were successful Model Ts
in motor racing in the 1920s, Ford V8s won the Monte Carlo rally in
the 1930s, and since the 1950s Ford has always been prominent in
racing and rallying, often with specially-developed cars like the Le
Mans winning GT40s, the Escort RS1600 and RS1800, the RS200, the
Sierra RS500 Cosworth, and racing Mondeos. Ford-powered cars from
all around the world will be reflecting this heritage at the Festival
of Speed.
Visitors
to Goodwood will see an astonishing variety of famous Fords,
including those located on the Ford stands at the entrance to the
festival and the main exhibition site inside the hillclimb track.
Prominent in these displays, as well as on the Goodwood hillclimb,
will be the
Ford Focus ST with its powerful 2.0-litre 250PS four-cylinder
EcoBoost engine.
The
new Ford Focus ST goes on sale in 40 countries this year and was
shown in final production-ready form at the Geneva motor show this
month.
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| Daniel Lloyd takes to the hill with a nervous passenger aboard his Porsche 911 GT3 |
Lloyd stars at Goodwood for Porsche Carrera Cup GB
Porsche Carrera Cup GB Scholarship driver Daniel Lloyd wowed the motoring and motor sport media during the annual press day for the Goodwood Festival of Speed (Wednesday 14 March).Fresh from a stunning performance the day before when he ran fourth fastest in the Carrera Cup pre-season test day at Silverstone, the Huddersfield racer was in action on the famous Sussex hillclimb course.
Just ten days after his 20th birthday, Daniel ferried journalists up the Goodwood Hillclimb in a 450bhp 911 GT3 Cup as the Festival of Speed unveiled a ‘Young Guns’ theme for 2012. In addition, the livery of Daniel’s car celebrated the tenth anniversary of the Carrera Cup GB.
As well as getting to grips with the rather different environment of the hillclimb course, Daniel gave a first class account of himself as he handled media interviews and photograph sessions with aplomb.
Media including What Car? and the Daily Telegraph rode alongside Daniel in the car and the Telegraph has already featured an in-car video they shot on its website, as part of its role as media partner of Goodwood. The video can be watched at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/motoringvideo/9144498/Daniel-Lloyds-hillclimb-at-Goodwood.html
Meanwhile, Daniel and his crew at Team Parker Racing are now busy preparation for the opening races of the Porsche Carrera Cup GB at Brands Hatch (31 March/1 April).
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| The TWR prepared XJS is a regular at the festival of speed. |
JAGUAR WINS 'MOST SPIRITED GETAWAY' AWARD FOR SECOND TIME AT GOODWOOD
A Jaguar has won the 'Most
Spirited Getaway' Award for the second consecutive year at the launch
of the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
The honour, won last year
by Touring Car driver Anthony Reid in an XFR, was won at the 2012
event by Alex Buncombe at the wheel of an XJS TWR owned by JD
Classics.
The light-hearted Award is
given to the driver judged to have made the most enthusiastic,
crowd-pleasing departure up the notorious Goodwood Hill.
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| The XJS meets it's big brother, the XJR-8/9 which is sure to be a quick car |
The car, a 1984 Jaguar XJS
TWR and chassis 005 of just seven produced was previously driven by
Win Percy. It made a suitably dramatic start as the combination of
slick tyres and a 485bhp, race-specification V12 and side-exit
exhaust system ensured a visual and aural spectacle.
It was joined on the
Goodwood Hill by the iconic Silk Cut Jaguar XJR-8/9 run by Don and
Justin Law – the latter aiming to once again set the pace at the
2012 running of the event having completed the run in just over 44
seconds in previous years.
The 2012 Festival of Speed
takes place between June 28 and July 1 with crowds expected to number
in excess of 180,000 over the three days.
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