There are reams and reams of glorious content to glean from this latest annual instalment of the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Let’s start off small with just four tasty morsels of metal, shall we? Yes, there are laps to watch too.
Ford GT Mk II
This one is in fact a co-development between Ford and Multimatic, a track-only, limited-edition Mk II clue into where the blue oval are going with their blue collar supercar.
Featuring 520kW from its 3.5 litre turbo EcoBoost V6, this fettled iteration spares nothing in its pursuit of speed.
The GT Mk II unleashes the full performance potential of the Ford GT without any artificial performance limitations dictated by racing sanctioning bodies. It's the closest GT owners can get to the Le Mans-winning performance and exhilarating feeling of crossing the finish line in the Ford GT race car - Hau Thai-Tang, Ford Chief of Product Development.
And since the Mk II is not limited by any racing sanctioning body it is able to generate 200 horsepower more than the race car, making the Mk II the most powerful version of the Ford GT.
"Shut up and take our money" said everyone at Goodwood. Look, we’re not saying it’s good, just that it won the Goodwood Supercar Shootout.
Behold the bewinged fury in action
DevBot2.0 replaces humans forever with this breathtaking autonomous lap
What witchcraft is this!?
Those nutters at Roborace have just set the first ever official autonomous timed run at Goodwood Festival of Speed with a time of 66.96s and a top speed of 162.8 km/h.
Well done, DevBot 2.0 you naughty little Hillclimb robot, you.
Behold the Audi R8 LMS GT2!
Looking like the most mental distillation of the R8 ever, this then, the LMS GT2 – is Audi uber alles.
It’s a race car, you got that right? Specifically, it is the most powerful sports car in the eleven-year history of the customer racing program delivering 123 horsepower/per litre (92kW/l) of displacement with a practically factory-spec 5.2-litre naturally aspirated V10 engine - no turbos needed.
Its job is to close the gap in GT racing classes, rising above GT3 and 4 wherein Audi has traditionally played. It’s based on the production car yet at 1350kg weighs a full 100kg less than the GT4 car. And that’s just mental.
Now watch it fly!
Fastest electric lap of Goodwood belongs to the VW ID.R
And by electric we don’t JUST mean that it was exhilarating to behold, we mean for an EV.
And wait, what? This just in – at 3 minutes 59 seconds it is also the fastest lap period, which makes perfect sense for the second fastest vehicle of any sort to lap the Nurburgring. Goodwood is a driveway in comparison.
Watch it driven here by none other by the Romain Dumas
