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    Jaguar cars to celebrate 50 years of its iconic E-Type at the Goodwood Festival of Speed and Revival

    jaguar cars will be officially celebrating two significant anniversaries at goodwood’s popular annual motor sport events this year, with 50 years of britain’s best-loved sports car - the legendary jaguar e-type – being honoured at both the 2011 festival of speed (1-3 july) and goodwood revival (16-18 september), as well as 60 years since the coventry marque first triumphed in the gruelling le mans 24 hour endurance race.

    Unveiled exactly 50 years ago at the 1961 geneva motor show, the e-type quickly became the epitome of 1960s cool, as well as establishing an enviable record on the racing circuits of the world, including goodwood. At the festival of speed this summer, the e-type’s 50th birthday will be marked with an original and highly impactful ‘central feature’ installation as a tribute to this incomparable motoring icon.

    As well as the central feature – once more created by gerry judah, who has designed every memorable festival display since 1997 – e-types will be much in evidence at the 19th festival of speed. A class in the world-renowned cartier ‘style et luxe’ concours d’elegance will be dedicated to variants of jaguar’s most famous model, while the goodwood hill will see examples of each notable racing e-type.

    Additionally, the 60th anniversary of jaguar’s first le mans win will be celebrated with a class of the marque’s 24 hours challengers. As well as the c-types and d-types which claimed five victories in the 1950s, jaguar’s triumphant return to la sarthe in the 1980s with the xjr series will also be represented, alongside examples of every other jaguar model to compete at the 24 hour race.

    Jaguar e-types will also have a strong presence at this year’s goodwood revival. Saturday’s feature race at the revival - the fordwater trophy - will be a 45-minute two-driver race for e-types only. In honour of this, the official 2011 goodwood revival poster depicts the famous ‘4 wpd’ noddy coombs lightweight development e-type racing at goodwood.

    Jaguar has a long and impressive history at goodwood. An ss100 won the very first post-war public motor race at the west sussex circuit in september 1948, and the marque went on to enjoy great success with sports, gt and saloon cars during goodwood’s active years from 1948 to 1966. It is testament to this special relationship that the 2011 goodwood festival of speed and revival are the only uk-based motor sport events officially recognised and supported by jaguar cars.

    Commenting on this announcement, lord march says: “i am delighted that we are able to honour jaguar’s sporting heritage and the 50th anniversary of the e-type in particular, at goodwood this year. Goodwood and jaguar have always enjoyed a very close relationship, and it is entirely fitting that they should choose to celebrate these two very special anniversaries with us.”

    tickets and further information for the 2011 festival of speed, moving motor show and goodwood revival can be found on the goodwood website (http://www.goodwood.com/motorsport), or via the ticket hotline as follows:

    Telephone: +44 1243 755055
    on-line via the ticket section of the website http://www.goodwood.com/motorsport
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    Canaletto, Stubbs, Hearsey and E-Types. The Goodwood art collection grows

    not only is goodwood home to two of the world’s leading annual motor sport events – the festival of speed (1-3 july) and revival (16-18 september) – it also houses a fine collection of art, including stunning landscapes painted by canaletto, and famous horse scenes by celebrated equine artist george stubbs.

    This year goodwood’s artwork collection is expanded with the reveal of the official printed posters for the 2011 festival of speed and revival. These highly-desirable motor sport prints are certain to become much sought-after collector’s items in the future, yet are available now in limited numbers for a modest £20 each from the goodwood shop (located at the motor circuit) and on-line at shop.goodwood.com.

    As in the previous 18 years since the festival of speed began, goodwood has commissioned renowned motor sport artist peter hearsey to depict the annual festival theme and main attractions with an evocative and colourful painting. This year’s theme is ‘racing revolutions – quantum leaps that shaped motor sport,’ celebrating the ceaseless quest for increased power, efficiency and speed.

    The centenary of “the greatest spectacle in racing” - the indianapolis 500 - is a 2011 festival highlight with a stunning gathering of indy cars and drivers due to appear at goodwood in july. Illustrating this indy 500 focus, peter hearsey has painted the striking wedged 1968 lotus type 56 of joe leonard rounding the first right-hand bend on the challenging festival of speed hillclimb. The innovative turbine lotus 56 indy car used four wheel drive to get the most out of the 500 bhp pratt and whitney gas turbine engine.

    Complementing this year’s festival of speed artwork is the official 2011 goodwood revival poster image, depicting the famous ‘4 wpd’ noddy coombs lightweight development jaguar e-type racing at goodwood and marking the 50th anniversary of this most iconic of british sports cars.

    The jaguar e-type will be much in evidence at both the 2011 festival of speed and at the revival, where this legendary car will be in the spotlight with a one-make e-type race.

    Tickets and further information for the 2011 festival of speed, moving motor show and goodwood revival can be found on the goodwood website (www.goodwood.com/motorsport/), or via the ticket hotline as follows:

    Telephone: +44 1243 755055
    on-line via the ticket section of the website www.goodwood.com/motorsport/
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    Goodwood to follow the red brick road at the 2011 Goodwood Festival of Speed

    following the recent announcement that the 2011 festival of speed (1-3 july) will include the largest celebration of 100 years of the famous indianapolis 500 race outside of the usa, goodwood can today (1st april) confirm that it is commencing construction work on the challenging festival track to cover the entire 1.16-mile hillclimb with one million bricks.

    The indianapolis motor speedway is affectionally known as the ‘brickyard’ due to the circuit’s original dangerous dirt track being resurfaced with 3,100,000 bricks in late 1909 to improve safety. Today a yard of the original brick track remains at the celebrated american speedway circuit.

    Commenting on this special indy 500 centenary initiative, festival of speed founder lord march says: “authenticity is absolutely fundamental to everything that we do at goodwood, with all of the competition cars at the festival appearing in their original livery for example, and often campaigned by their original drivers.”

    lord march continues: “we are taking the first 100 years of america’s most important motor race very seriously, so as well as having a line-up of 33 significant indy cars (the number which traditionally start the 500) on the goodwood hill, plus many winning drivers and famous indy 500 pageantry, we will be covering the goodwood hillclimb with over a million bricks to accurately replicate the very first indianapolis 500 mile race in 1911.”

    a full grid of 33 indy cars will be displayed together in the formula one paddock at the festival, to create goodwood’s very own gasoline alley. Indy car highlights will include johnny rutherford’s winning 1974 mclaren m16 and 1980 chaparral 2k, the 1977 coyote in which aj foyt scored his record-breaking fourth win, bobby unser’s 1981 penske which was finally declared the winner by an appeals board four months after the race, and bobby rahal’s winning 1986 march. Along with these winning cars, will be everything from the peugeot l45 which heralded a brief period of european domination either side of wwi to the fabulous roadsters of the 1950s, and the sensational gas turbine lotus 56 to the very latest dallara-hondas.

    Goodwood will be undertaking extensive testing to ensure that the nine formula one teams expected to attend the 2011 festival don’t bottom-out their f1 cars on the brick surface, along with the many other low-slung vehicles in action, including le mans winners and the very latest supercars. However, a number of competition motorcycle riders due to be tackling the festival hillclimb are reported to be bricking it.

    Tickets and further information aboutr the 2011 festival of speed and moving motor show can be found on the goodwood website (www.goodwood.com/motorsport), or via the ticket hotline as follows:
    Telephone: +44 (0)1243 755055
    on-line via the ticket section of the website www.goodwood.com/motorsport
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    • Goodwood can already confirm over 60 drivers and riders for the 2011 Festival of Speed
    • Goodwood’s salute to the Indianapolis 500 centenary will feature over 30 significant Indy cars


    With just over eight weeks to go until the 2011 Festival of Speed (1-3 July), Goodwood can already confirm more than 60 star drivers and riders will be present at the world’s largest celebration of motoring culture.

    To honour the centenary of ‘The Greatest Spectacle In Racing’, the Indianapolis 500, a fantastic array of Indy 500 champions will gather in the West Sussex countryside, to create the largest celebration of Indianapolis outside the United States. Drivers present will include Emerson Fittipaldi, in action in a Penske PC23, Bobby Unser in his 1981 Indy 500-winning Penske PC9B, and Bobby Rahal in his 1986 Indy 500-winning March 86C. Gil de Ferran will also take to the hill in his 2003 Indy-winning Penske, with Dario Franchitti driving the Lotus 38 that Jim Clark drove to second place in the 1966 race.

    Already several manufacturer teams have indicated their intention to attend this year’s Festival, and Goodwood is aiming to attract a record number of contemporary F1 teams to the Festival, with at least nine of the 12 teams competing this year looking like a real possibility. Those teams confirmed so far includeScuderia Ferrari, McLaren-Mercedes, Red Bull, Lotus-Renault, Mercedes GP, Williams-Cosworth and Team Lotus.

    Past Grand Prix winners present at the Festival of Speed are set to include Sir Stirling Moss, John Surtees, Jochen Mass and Peter Gethin, alongside the current voice of F1 on the BBC, Martin Brundle. Le Mans winners Derek Bell, Richard Attwood,Jan Lammers, Jackie Oliver, Andy Wallace and Marco Werner will join a roll-call of other motor sport stars that reads like a Who’s Who of motor racing.

    From the world of rallying, rising star and Skoda UK Motorsport IRC Rally driver Andreas Mikkelsen will be on the Forest Rally Stage along with many other rallying greats who will be reacquainted with the cars that made them famous, including RaunoAaltonen, Jimmy McRae, Hannu Mikkola and Russell Brookes. TV chef and classic car lover James Martin will also be in action on the Forest Rally Stage.

    Motorcycling heroes will include current World Superbike riders James Toseland and Jonathan Rea alongside TT legends John McGuinness, Cameron Donald, Keith Amor, Guy Martin, Sammy Miller and Ron Chandler. Joining them will be Freddie Sheene, son of World Champion Barry, riding the Icon Sheene motorcycle. The latest summary of the drivers and riders due to appear at the 2011 Festival of Speed, along with the vehicles they will be running up the challenging 1.16-mile Goodwood hillclimb, is available via this news page.
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    • A record number of new supercars set to make their dynamic UK debut at the Festival of Speed
    • British premiers to include the Ferrari FF, Lamborghini Aventador, Marussia B1 and Hulme CanAm Spyder
    • Goodwood to give a 'first glance' of other interesting road cars, including the world debut of the Honda CR-Z Mugen, Abarth 695 Tributo Ferrari and Porsche Panamera Turbo S

    From 1-3 July, the Festival of Speed will be the only place in Britain to see the very latest supercars in action, as well as up close in the popular Goodwood Supercar Paddock. The Festival of Speed has firmly established itself as the best place to see the newest, greatest and fastest supercars from around the globe. The Goodwood Supercar Run is unique in providing a dynamic environment in which the public can view new models for the first time.

    Unlike a conventional motor show, the Supercar Run affords a fantastic opportunity not only to exhibit a new supercar, but also to show it in action on the Goodwood hillclimb. Last year's Festival saw over 20 UK public debuts out of a 50-car field, and with six weeks still to go, this year’s entry is looking even stronger.

    For 2011 the Supercar Run promises the very latest supercars from all around the world, with cars from as many as 11 countries anticipated. Cars already confirmed to be making their World and/or UK dynamic debuts will include the Ferrari FF, Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4, Jaguar XKR-S, Pagani Huayra, GTA Spano, Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport, Hennessy Venom GT, Koenigsegg Agera R, Marussia B1 and B2, Hulme CanAm Spyder, the six-wheeled Covini C6, and the production version of the McLaren MP4-12C, which made its World debut in pre-series form at the 2010 Festival of Speed.

    In all, as many as 50 great supercars will be in action on the Hill, which will certainly be a feast for the senses of the expected 175,000+ visitors to the Festival of Speed and Moving Motor Show. A number of other important UK debuts will also take place in the First Glance class, FoS-TECH and in the manufacturers’ vast exhibition area at Goodwood, including the new Morgan 3 Wheeler, Alfa Romeo 4C, Peugeot EX1, Chevrolet Camaro Convertible and Infiniti Etheria concept.

    Away from the Supercar Run, over a dozen other new vehicles are expected to be making their UK public debut on the Hill as part of the new Goodwood Moving Motor Show, presented by Auto Trader, details of which will be confirmed in the coming days and weeks.
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    • With just four weeks to go until the Festival of Speed bursts into life, Goodwood commences work on its striking 2011 central feature ‘installation’
    • The 2011 Festival central feature will pay a memorable and unique homage to the Jaguar E-type on its 50thanniversary
    • The Goodwood sculpture will be 28 metres high and weigh 150 tonnes – the same as 122 E-types!
    • Goodwood will also mark 60 years of Jaguar’s success in the Le Mans 24 Hours race, plus new production models in the Supercar Run and Moving Motor Show

    After much hard work and planning, in just four weeks time Goodwood will end the speculation and reveal its much-anticipated central feature art installation for the 2011 Festival of Speed (30 June-3 July). The annual Goodwood central feature sculpture has become the key focal point and signature of each year’s Festival, with its huge impact always creating excitement, debate, flashing cameras and jaw-dropping awe amongst the event’s 175,000+ spectators.

    For 2011, Jaguar will take centre stage directly outside Goodwood House as the Festival celebrates two significant anniversaries for the famous Coventry marque, as well as British dynamic debuts for new Jaguar production models in the popular Supercar Run, plus Moving Motor Show, presented by Auto Trader.

    The Festival of Speed and Goodwood Revival (16-18 September) are the only UK-based events being officially supported by Jaguar Cars to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Britain’s best-loved sports car – the legendary Jaguar E-type – as well as 60 years since the Coventry marque first won the gruelling Le Mans 24 Hours endurance race.

    To mark the E-type’s half century, Goodwood will pay a fitting tribute to this incomparable motoring icon with a dramatic 28 metre-high central feature ‘installation’, designed by award-winning sculptor Gerry Judah (his 12th for the Festival of Speed) and weighing 150 tonnes – equivalent to 122 Jaguar E-types.

    E-types will also be much in evidence elsewhere at the 19th Festival of Speed. A class in the world-renowned Cartier ‘Style et Luxe’ concours d’elegance will be dedicated to variants of Jaguar’s legendary model, while the Goodwood Hill will see examples of each notable racing E-type in action.

    Additionally, the 60th anniversary of Jaguar’s first Le Mans win will be celebrated with a class of the marque’s 24 Hours challengers. As well as the C-types and D-types which claimed five victories in the 1950s, Jaguar’s triumphant return to la Sarthe in the 1980s with the XJR series will also be represented, alongside examples of every other Jaguar model to compete at the 24-hour race, plus a few that didn’t quite make it, such as the stillborn XJ13 and sensational XJR14.

    Jaguar’s new XKR-S – the marque’s fastest and most powerful production sports car – will feature at the Festival as part of the hugely-popular Supercar Run, and an extensive range of Jaguar’s current product portfolio will also be available for close inspection on its exhibition stand and Moving Motor Show display from Thursday 30 June until Sunday 3 July.

    Jaguar E-types will also have a strong presence at this year’s Goodwood Revival, from 16 to 18 September. Saturday’s Revival feature race – the Fordwater Trophy – will be a 45-minute two-driver dual for the finest and most authentic racing E-types only.

    Jaguar has a long and impressive history at Goodwood. An SS100 won the very first post-War public motor race at the West Sussex circuit in September 1948, and the marque went on to enjoy great success with sports, GT and saloon cars during Goodwood’s active international motor racing years from 1948 to 1966. It is testament to this special relationship that the 2011 Goodwood Festival of Speed and Revival are the only UK-based motor sport events officially recognised and supported by Jaguar Cars.

    Tickets and further information for the 2011 Festival of Speed, Moving Motor Show and Goodwood Revival can be found on the Goodwood website (www.goodwood.com/motorsport), or via the Ticket Hotline as follows:
    Telephone: +44 (0)1243 755055
    On-line via the Ticket section of the website http://www.goodwood.com/motorsport
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    Sounds great, I’m going on Saturday and i can't wait, my tickets came last week. This year is going to be great and I can’t wait to see some of the new cars.
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    Quote Originally Posted by thebrochureman View Post
    Sounds great, I’m going on Saturday and i can't wait, my tickets came last week. This year is going to be great and I can’t wait to see some of the new cars.
    Good to hear. We will be running around all weekend for all of you that can not make it.
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    ^^^ I wish i could go every day, I.m going with some friends (do rember the forum member called "killkevcorsas", thats who I'm going with. Iwith i could go every day, maybe next year i mite camp over so i can go for the full 4 days. Do UCP have a stand or somthing like that, and how many UCP members are going with you.
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    MINI John Cooper Works WRC ride in store for one lucky fan.

    Munich. 17th June, 2011. The largest motoring garden party in the world, set in the heart of the British countryside, will be the idyllic setting for an outing of the MINI John Cooper Works WRC. This will be at the Goodwood Festival of Speed on the 1st - 3rd July and here a member of the public will get the once in a life time chance to be a passenger in one of these iconic cars while it is being driven at speed.

    The lucky person, who will sit beside works rally driver, Kris Meeke (GB), on Sunday morning while the car goes through the 1.67 mile loose-surface forest rally stage, will be the winner of a raffle to be held at the annual glittering ball on the Saturday night. Dr Kay Segler, Senior Vice President Brand Management MINI, commented: “When we were invited to be part of this event, which has a worldwide reputation for being one of the biggest on the motorsport calendar, we were delighted. The affection felt for MINI as a brand is amazing, and I am confident the fans at Goodwood will give it as enthusiastic a welcome as I watched it have on its World Rally Championship debut in Sardinia. We wanted to make it even more special, so we felt giving a prize that money could not buy would be a great start.”

    Meeke will be driving the car on both the rally stage and up the 1.16 mile hillclimb on all three days. This event, which was founded in 1993 by the owner of Goodwood House, the Earl of March, has become a magnet for fans who come from far and wide to celebrate motorsport and all things automotive at their finest. The hillclimb, which is the main attraction, is very technical and challenging and rises over 300 feet from start to finish.

    This year’s theme is ‘Racing Revolutions – Quantum leaps that shaped motorsport’. Priceless machinery from around the world representing two and four wheeled motorsport will be on display for the 150,000 sell-out crowd to see at close quarters.

    The MINI WRC Team has been busy testing ahead of its next WRC outing on Rally Finland on 28th - 30th July. This is the second of six WRC events in 2011 that Meeke and co-driver Paul Nagle (IR) and Dani Sordo and co-driver Carlos del Barrio (ES) will take part in ahead of a full assault on the WRC in 2012.
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    I really need to get some line of work where I can afford to travel the world and see shows like this. There are so many automotive events/museums I need to see in my lifetime!


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    Not long now, it is going to be fantastic as usual - just hope we don't get loads of rain like those going to glastonbury this weekend!

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    ^^^ Yea.
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    Indy centenary celebrated:

    In less than a week, over 40 significant and rarely-seen Indy 500 race cars will assemble at the annual Festival of Speed (30 June – 3 July), as Goodwood stages the largest centenary celebration of this great American race outside of the USA.

    In anticipation of the arrival of the first shipment of Indy cars from the USA, Festival of Speed founder Lord March has laid the first of a number of genuine 1911 Indy bricks - sent over especially from Indianapolis for the Goodwood celebrations – at the iconic Festival hillclimb start line.

    The famous Indianapolis bricks are significant as the Indiana track’s surface was made up of 3.2million of these bricks, ultimately leading to its nickname of ‘The Brick Yard.’ The authentic Indy 500 bricks at Goodwood will now become a permanent feature of the 1.16-mile West Sussex hillclimb.

    As with the Indy 500 grid, 33 Indy cars will be lined-up on the Goodwood hillclimb to reflect the number that traditionally start the 500-mile race. A total of over 40 Indy cars will be displayed together in the Festival’s Formula One Paddock to create Goodwood’s very own ‘Gasoline Alley’.

    Most of the cars will be appearing in the UK for the very first time, as will many of the famous Indianapolis drivers, all accompanied by the fanfare and pageantry that is synonymous with the world’s biggest single-day sporting event, so Festival goers can expect real razzamatazz, with music, colour and wild flag waving.

    Indy 500 drivers in attendance at Goodwood will include the winners of the last five Indianapolis, plus 14 winners, victorious in 25 races, including the 2011 Indy 500 winner Dan Wheldon. He will be joined by three-time champion Helio Castroneves, Indy legends Bobby Unser and Al Unser Junior, Bobby Rahal, driving his 1986 Indy 500-winning March 86C, plus Gil de Ferran in his 2003 Indy-winning Penske and Dario Franchitti, driving the Lotus 38 that Jim Clark drove to second place in the 1966 race.

    Indy car highlights include the 1911 Marmon ‘Wasp’, 1928 Miller Special, 1947 Deidt-Offenhauser ‘Blue Crown Special’, 1968 Lotus-Pratt & Whitney 56 ‘STP Special’, 1970 PJ-Ford ‘Johnny Lightening Special’, 1980 Chaparral-Cosworth 2K and 1994 Penske-Mercedes PC23. An example of the 2011 Indy 500 Pace Car – a Chevrolet Camaro convertible – will lead the pack.

    Commenting on Goodwood’s Indianapolis centenary celebrations, Lord March says: “I am delighted that we are able to honour this momentous anniversary. American motor sport has always been an important element of the Festival of Speed, and there is no bigger event in the American sporting calendar than the Indianapolis 500. To be able to honour the centenary in such a major way, and now have a bit of Indianapolis permanently at Goodwood with the start line bricks is a real honour.”

    Tickets and further information for the 2011 Festival of Speed, Moving Motor Show and Goodwood Revival can be found on the Goodwood website (www.goodwood.com/motor sport/).
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    Honda at Goodwood:

    Honda's 40-metre high, 24-pod "Eye", now has its very own Twitter feed to keep fans and attendees up to date on all the Honda action throughout the Goodwood Festival of Speed (30 June to 3rd July 2011).

    Twitter users can follow @hondaeyespy, tweet what they’ve spied on their trip on the Honda Eye and hear about all the on the ground and birds-eye action as well as seeing what other visitors have spied on the wheel.

    In a first for the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the Honda Eye gives guests onboard the opportunity to experience fantastic birds-eye views of the beautiful Estate and surrounding areas of West Sussex. It will be open to all Goodwood attendees throughout the Festival of Speed, running in 10 minute rotations from 9am-6pm and enthusiasts can enjoy multiple rides on the attraction, free of charge. Fast-track passes are available for those wanting to avoid the queues and can be downloaded ahead of the festival from Honda at Goodwood | Honda UK.

    A quiz will be running over the weekend based on what can be seen from the Honda Eye. Participants will be in entered into the ‘Win A Lot Of Honda’ competition with a whole range of Honda products to be won including a car, motorcycle, lawnmower, ATV, generator and inflatable boat.

    Other Honda attractions at the Goodwood Festival of Speed include the public debut of the storming CR-Z MUGEN. The CR-Z MUGEN will be showcased in the Cathedral Paddock on the Thursday and showing everyone its power as it’s driven up the hill on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. A new CR-Z MUGEN RR concept car will also be on display throughout the event.

    Motorsport fans also have the opportunity to see Honda Racing drivers Gordon “Flash” Shedden and Matt Neal running the 2011 BTCC Civic up the hill.

    For two-wheel race enthusiasts, Honda TT legends John McGuinness and team-mate Keith Amor will be riding up the hill on the CBR1000RR Fireblade, the bike that powered McGuinness to achieve the fastest ever lap of the Isle of Man and many of his incredible 17 TT victories.

    A range of Honda motorcycles from the ‘60s onwards will also be taking their place on the famous Goodwood hill climb, including 1962 RC162, 1966 RC181, 1979 RS1000, 1983 NS500, 1996 NSR250, 1998 RC45, and current day CBR1000RR Fireblades in various guises.

    Honda will once again be taking part in the Moving Motor Show on the Thursday giving customers the unique opportunity to drive up the hill in the beautiful setting of Goodwood in a Civic Type R MUGEN, BTCC-inspired Civic Ti or CR-Z sports hybrid.

    For further information about Honda’s innovative presence at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed go to Honda at Goodwood | Honda UK or follow @hondaeyespy. Visit http://www.goodwood.co.uk/festival-of-speed to buy tickets.
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