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HILLCLIMBS AND CRUSTLESS SANDWICHES; In 12 years, the Earl of March has turned the Goodwood Festival of Speed into a motorsports Woodstock.(News)(Goodwood Circuit)
Byline: MATT DAVIS
As opposed to the Goodwood Revival in September on the very fast 2.4-mile Goodwood Circuit, the Festival of Speed in late June is run up and down the Earl of March's 1.16-mile main driveway.
Goodwood is all about love of great racers and their cars, and a traditional hillclimb is the chosen altar. Driveways are narrow things, of course, and become even narrower when lined by thickly trunked trees and large hay bales. This narrowness takes on new meaning when you're screaming around in the 2003 McLaren-Mercedes MP4/17D Formula One car after a rain squall.
Friday was clear and sunny, Saturday had light rain and Sunday brought some sun, some rain and a lot of wind. The record for the climb is 41.6 seconds set by F1 driver Nick Heidfeld driving a McLaren-Mercedes F1 car in 1999. But the weekend isn't just a hillclimb. Non-powered machines run the route the other way, and the downhill gravity king in the soapbox class is this year's Lotus 119c in the hands of Paul Adams at 1:03.998.
Winning isn't even close to everything here, though. Seeing Jacques Villeneuve drive his late father's Ferrari 312 T3, which gave Gilles his first ever GP win at the 1978 Canadian Grand Prix, is more important. (That the car ...
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