2012 Goodwood Motorsport Season Announced

2012 Goodwood Motorsport Season Announced:

Summer can’t be far off with details of Goodwood’s Festival of Speed and Revival meetings being announced.
Highlights of the Festival of Speed include: At least seven current Formula One teams attending and in action, including the first Goodwood appearance for double F1 World Champion Sebastian Vettel, along with the Red Bull Racing team and his team mate, Mark Webber. Vettel’s Goodwood debut links in with the 2012 Festival of Speed theme – ‘Young Guns – Born to Win.’

The 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.

Later in the year the Revival will feature, among things:

• An at-speed demonstration of the Silver Arrows Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union cars, 75 years after their memorable race in the UK at Donington Park.
• 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 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.

Plus, two very special races; a Nine Hours night race, 60 years after this first Goodwood race into the dark, plus a new Goodwood competition – the Settrington Cup for young and, presumably very fit, drivers in Austin J40 pedal cars.

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