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We've seen Bill Caswell's side of Ken Block's return to the Goodwood Festival of Speed, but here's the reel from the Gymkhana master, showing how even polite British society enjoys a thorough spot of hooning. More »
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At the top of Goodwood is the rally paddock and a 2 minute, 20-second forest stage that I raced down in Ken Block's Ford Fiesta. It was awesome, but the moment I got out of Ken's car I ran straight to the Group B paddock and started begging for rides. I'm riding in a Group B if it's the last thing I do. More »
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I've wanted to be a World Rally Championship driver ever since I saw Prodrive running BMW E30 M3's in the late 1980s. And for a brief moment I was one of those beloved athletes, cheered by fans and professional racers alike. Sadly, it was just a trick. More »
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The sound of an F1 engine has changed so much over the years. While I like the high pitch whine of the current cars, it sounds more like a missile being fired than a race car. But I shouldn't complain as I'm sure one day they will be electric or something that doesn't make any noise. That'll really suck. Because I like the noise. More »
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Chaparral's ingenious but strange race cars, with their six-foot tall wings and vacuum suction motors, were first mocked, then feared, then finally banned for being too advanced. Four decades later I got a ride in one. More »
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The Covini six-wheel supercar follows the model of other Italian supercars (big V8, sleek body, custom style) with one key difference captivating car and gadget geeks alike: it's got six wheels. And I'm the first person to drive it. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5818524&view=rss&microfeed=true Ken Block will haul his rally Ford Fiesta RS and the Gymkhana version to the Goodwood Festival of Speed aiming to destroy Lord March's front lawn. Travis Pastrana will loan him some eye candy. More »
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This is Red Bull’s chief technical officer Adrian Newey at the 2010 Goodwood Festival of Speed, reading the manual of the Red Bull RB5: the car he’s sitting in, and the car he designed for the 2009 Formula One season. More »
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The Goodwood Festival of Speed is more of an exhibition than an actual race, which is why Nissan's hoping to set two quirky records there: fastest four-wheeled car on two wheels and fastest backwards run — in the Juke and Leaf, respectively. More »
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At last year's Goodwood Festival, Toyota and racing group Gazoo unveiled an MR2 fitted with front-wheel-turning electric motors and a 3.3-liter V6 for the back. For this year's event, they've upgraded the Sport Hybrid Concept to version two-point-uh-oh. More »
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One of the highlights of the 2009 Goodwood Festival of Speed was Peter Fonda making his first appearance at the event, riding his now-destroyed Harley to Born to Be Wild blaring from the speakers. We were there. More »
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In what the British media is calling a "guerrilla ad campaign," Nissan recently stickered a handful of its fleet cars with "kill" graphics signifying motorsport wins. The targets? Porsche, BMW, and Audi. Guess which one couldn't take a joke. More »
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Say it with me now: Touring cars. Should. Be Based. On real street cars. And have big snorty exhausts poking out from under their rockers. (Jaguar XJ touring car at last weekend's Goodwood Festival of Speed.) Photo Credit: RacinginAmerica/Flickr More »
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Red Bull rider Dougie Lampkin, a 12-time world trials champion, jumps a spectator at last weekend's Goodwood Festival of Speed. Said spectator has balls — and Dougie is good. Photo Credit: Tom Leman/Flickr More »
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The ex-Paddy Hopkirk 1965 Mini Cooper S works rally car being driven — and offed — in anger at last weekend's Goodwood Festival of Speed. Adorable. Rallying needs to be adorable again. Photo Credit: Richebetspics/Flickr More »
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An Alfa Romeo 155 touring car in the paddock at last weekend's Goodwood Festival of Speed. That nose? Shovelicious. Photo Credit: Dwonderwall/Flickr More »
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Everyone says the Miata handles like a slot-car. Now the simile will become reality at the Goodwood Festival of Speed when Mazda brings a life-sized Scalextric set complete with Miata slot cars. How cool is that?! [WCF] More »
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The Toyota Tacoma Pikes Peak can hit 60 MPH in 1.6 seconds thanks to a 1,000 HP 2.1-liter engine. But it's only geared to do 132 MPH. Imagine how crazy that is. Oh wait, don't, there's video. More »
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Paul Jaye beautifully sheds some grass from his 1938 Alta after losing control in the historic Madgwick corner at the 2009 Goodwood Revival. [Photo Credit: markcann1 via fuckyeahcarburetors] More »
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Bentley brought a ringer to Goodwood to make sure its spankin' new Bentley Continental Supersports looked good in front of well healed fans. Le Mans legend Derek Bell uses every one of the 621 HP. More »
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In the name of art, it's cars in the sky at the Festival of Speed every year since 1997. Meet the man who makes them: Gerry Judah, a Baghdadi Jew from Calcutta. More »
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Noon was marked in high style at the Festival of Speed: the RAF’s Red Arrows acrobatic team performed a tight and very loud flyby. Click through for the scream of nine Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Adour turbofans. More »
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Ever since Jeremy Clarkson’s original review of the Veyron, we've wondered how close his description of its sound was to reality. It turns out he was spot on. More »
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The W25 was the first Silver Arrow, and one of many to make an appearance at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Watch the F1 championship leader drive it 75 years after its German debut. More »
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Know how sometimes things just come together in spectacular fashion? That just happened to two Jalopnik readers at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Hilarious T-shirts combined with fate help create this spectacular image. More »
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Goodwood has a reputation of lowered walls between the masses and the motoring glitterati. Let’s see who among the many famous wandered into view. More »
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Among many incredible Jaguars at Goodwood was their fastest production car ever, the 2010 Jaguar XFR. With stock tires and a wing on the back, it did 225 MPH before being paraded in the South of England on Sunday. More »
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After a long and very offline journey, the Crazy Euro Car Boy is back from the 2009 Goodwood Festival Of Speed. To whet the appetite for the coming days of petrolhead madness, here's a primer on what it was like. More »
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The almost too-good-to-be-true Frazer-Nash Namir, the self-proclaimed world's fastest hybrid, took to Goodwood for the hill climb. More »
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Jaguar revealed their Goodwood special edition XKR yesterday at the annual Festival of Speed. The limited edition pussy-cat gets an extra 20 horses under the bonnet, bringing this envious-looking little kitty up to 530 HP. More »
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Alfa Romeo will celebrate their 99th anniversary by racing historic racing and concept cars, including the first production 8C Spider, up the driveway at this weekend's Goodwood Festival of Speed. Our own Crazy Euro Car Boy will be there. More »
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Audi will be the featured marque at this year's Festival of Speed, held July 3-5. This is your last chance to see the Auto Union race cars before Audi becomes, by default, hopelessly uncool. More »
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Rolls-Royce CEO Ian Robertson took the podium to confirm several things: that Rolls is still custom-crafted catnip to Beverly Hills plastic surgeons (90210 harbors their number one dealership); that their armored superluxe market is healthy; that the glistening British stalwart refers to potential lineworkers, in charmingly medieval fashion, as "apprentices"; and that even non-news sounds juicy when it's delivered in tasteful BBC tones. More »
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The Nissan GT-R made a quick drive-by at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. The GT-R making the rounds was still wearing the fascia-obscuring black bra, but still looking pretty hot. It'll make an official debut at the Tokyo Motor Show later in the year, but Goodwood ain't a bad way for a test vehicle to spend a long weekend, is it? – Ray Wert More »
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The epicenter of automotive coolness this weekend is approximately 50°52'2.38"N and 0°43'58.46"W. That's the Goodwood Estate, where all manner of vehicular foolishness is happening this weekend. For said car p0rn, check out this delectable Flickr pool, or see what Autoblog Frank uncovered on his trip there. Very nice, indeed. – Mike Spinelli More »
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The original "Formula 1 car for the street," the Caparo T1 will get a little more displacement under that tiny bonnet — and no silly intake tricks. When the street-ready T1 launches at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK this June, it'll be sporting a proprietary, naturally aspirated 3.5-liter V8 with an aluminum block and power of up to 200 horsepower per liter. That should propel the 1,100-lb car quite nicely indeed. That means the original goal of 1000 hp per ton has been met and exceeded. Of course, for all its sporting pretense and likely sale to the well-heeled track-day types, the T1 is a showcase car for Caparo's weight-saving technologies the company intends to translate into better mileage and reduced emissions for normal cars. Nonetheless, waaaahooo! – Mike Spinelli More »
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With no plans to bring a Marcos of any stripe to the US, we'll just stare from afar as the Brits re-invent 1977, three decades hence. The company's TSO is already one of the purest muscle coupes in the world, and now it's gotten T-Tops, which places the GTC R/T in the realm of the Screaming Chicken Trans Am. Might a UK-centric remake of "Smokey and the Bandit" be in order? Say, a mustacheoed lad in a Marcos GTC rides shotgun for a cockney-spoken lorry driver, as he hauls a load of cider from Norfolk to Eastbourne, pursued via traffic camera by an angry constable and his nitwit son, Nigel? We're in for ten bucks. More »
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This past weekend, Rally champ Colin McRae may have revolutionized the rallying game, unveiling his R4 racer at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. The car, which Mcrae once said he wanted to look like the Mk2 Escort (not that the finished product reflects it), was created with help from UK firms, DJM Race Preparations and Millington Engines. It's got a 340-hp, 2.5-liter bespoke four-cylinder engine, six-speed sequential gearbox and a choice of rear-wheel or four-wheel drive. According to Autocar, the principals expect the R4 to hit 60mph in five seconds, with subsequent models including a turbocharged mill for even more trecherous tree-dodging. Privateers should expect to shell out $240,000 this fall for the 'base' model. More »
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Ascari! Scag! Viper! Zonda! Veyron! Even a Z4 Coup ! All manner of fully-awesome hardware is hooning it up the hill at Goodwood and the kids over at Supercars.net have a bushel of photos of the machines on the line and headed up the course. We're praying for transporter technology to improve and come down in price, because we really wish we were there right now. Click over for a faceful of sheer radness. More »
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