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2018 Goodwood Festival of Speed: Porsche confirmed as 'honoured marque'
A Porsche 911 GT2 RS in front of Goodwood House

2018 Goodwood Festival of Speed: central feature to celebrate Porsche

The 70th anniversary of the Porsche 356 to be celebrated by Goodwood sculpture

13 February 2018
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Hardcore Porsche 911 GT2 RS makes debut at Goodwood Festival of Speed
The Porsche GT2 RS made its dynamic debut up the Goodwood hill route

Porsche 911 GT2 RS: new video shows 690bhp sports car at Goodwood

New Porsche can dispatch 0-62mph in 2.8sec and tops out at 211mph

4 July 2017
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Festival of Speed 2017
Thousands of fans flocked to the Festival of Speed last weekend

Goodwood Festival of Speed 2017: complete coverage

Catch-up on all of our Goodwood coverage: find it all here

3 July 2017
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We give Vauxhall’s most powerful VXR8 a smoky send-off at Goodwood

The VXR8 GTS-R will be the last V8-engined Vauxhall, so we felt it was necessarily to give it a fitting goodbye

3 July 2017
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CHEVROLET LUMINA
CHEVROLET LUMINA - Ernie Irvan won 15 NASCAR Winston Cup races in his long career, including the biggest of them all: the Daytona 500. This V8-engined Lumina was the car he used to clinch that win

Goodwood Festival of Speed 2017: best of the hillclimb

Competition cars come in an incredible array of shapes and sizes, as shown by the machines that hurtled up the Goodwood hill

3 July 2017
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Daimler V8 Vicarage cabriolet
This Daimler V8 is the only one of its kind to have been given the Vicarage convertible treatment.

Goodwood Festival of Speed 2017: Bonhams Auction

With Elton John's old Bentley, David Gilmour's Ferrari F40, and Peter Sellers's Porsche 911 all going under the hammer, this year's Goodwood Bonhams auction was star-studded

3 July 2017
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MAZDA MX-5
MAZDA MX-5 - New Zealander Mad Mike Whiddett sends his rotary-engined Mazda MX-5 sideways - in a straight line - past spectators in the sponsors' enclosure.

Goodwood Festival of Speed 2017: the drifters gallery

The likes of Mad Mike Whiddett, Vaughn Gittin Jnr, James Deane and Dean Kearney are making 'FOS2017' a great one for the art of going sideway. Our gallery brings you the best slide-rulers from the Goodwood hill

3 July 2017
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MCLAREN 720S

Goodwood Festival of Speed 2017: full report

We reflect on the best of this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed, including some of our favourite images from the event

3 July 2017
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Rolls-Royce Sweptail 2017
Jack Goff was tasked with driving Sweptail up the Goodwood hill

Rolls-Royce Sweptail: what it's like to drive a bespoke one-off

Jack Goff, best known for racing bumper-to-bumper in the BTCC, was handed the keys to the coachbuilt creation. We asked him what Sweptail is like to drive

2 July 2017
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Jaguar XE SV Project 8
JAGUAR XE SV PROJECT 8 - MATT SAUNDERS: "Jaguar's Project 8 is a proper geek's performance car: it had life and momentum behind it long before it was drawn by a designer. And isn't it great they have the confidence to make it?...

Goodwood Festival of Speed 2017: our highlights

Our team pick our their favourite moments and machines from the event

2 July 2017
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