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Goodwood Festival 2008 Coming Soon
5 Days ago
In just two weeks times, at the 2008 Festival of Speed (11-13 July), Goodwood will assemble a selection of world-beating motorcycles and riders, both past and present. A mouth-watering selection of pre-war two-wheeled machines will be in action on the famous Goodwood hillclimb, including the 1925 JAP V-twin Brough-Superior SS100 – winner of a Brooklands Gold Star in 1926 – plus the ground-breaking three-cylinder supercharged 1939 DKW350SS that has to be heard to be believed.
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Goodwood Festival Celebrates BSB in 2008
12 May 2008
Over the weekend of the 11 – 13 July, the Goodwood Festival of Speed will celebrate the UK’s role in providing a high-profile, competitive environment for the world’s top manufacturers and star riders by commemorating the success of the most competitive domestic motorcycle racing series in the world, the British Superbike Championship. Goodwood aims to gather together one of the largest collections of significant machinery and famous riders from the renowned championship that has ever been seen. Expect to see great champions such as Terry Rymer on his 1990 championship winning Loctite Yamaha OW01, Jamie Whitham riding Niall Mackenzie’s 1998 championship winning Cadbury’s Boost Yamaha YZF750 and John Reynolds on his 2004 championship winning Rizla Suzuki GSX-R1000.
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Countdown To Goodwood Festival Of Speed
15 June 2007
Honda’s impressive racing heritage will again be displayed at this year’s Festival of Speed, with performances from two and four wheeled legends. Three milestone cars from Honda’s Collection Hall in Japan are making the trip to West Sussex, along with eight legendary bikes, including three Isle of Man TT-winning motorcycles. If that’s not enough, the JAS Motorsport Civic Type-R will be tearing up the hill with Honda F1 test driver Christian Klien at the wheel. Jenson Button will also be taking his 2007 ride along; the Honda RA107 Formula 1 car.
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Chris Pfeiffer At Goodwood This Summer
25 May 2007
The 37-year-old German stunt-rider is the current Indoor Freestyle World Champion and was the 2006 Stunt Wars winner in Florida USA. Chris will be giving sensational displays of his trick riding skills at the Day of Champions at Donington Park on Thursday 21 June, and the Goodwood Festival of Speed in Hampshire from Friday 22 to Sunday 24 June. The Day of Champions is the annual fund-raiser for the Riders for Health charity, which trains African health workers to ride and maintain motorcycles so they can reach remote rural communities with vital healthcare. The Goodwood Festival of Speed is a hillclimb event which is quite possibly the biggest and most diverse celebration of two and four-wheeled motorsport in the world, both perfect venues for Chris to perform his spectacular show.
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Team Alstare at Goodwood
11 July 2006
Team Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra made their first visit to the prestigious Festival of Speed at Goodwood recently and enjoyed the experience so much that they want to do it again next year. The Festival of Speed is one of the most famous motorsports events on the calendar and over 150,000 spectators make the pilgrimage to the Sussex town each year to see the top stars of F1, MotoGP and World Superbike close up.
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Vermeulen To Star At Goodwood On Sheene’s Bike
07 July 2006
Rizla Suzuki MotoGP star Chris Vermeulen will be riding at this weekend’s Goodwood Festival of Speed in England, onboard the Suzuki that powered Barry Sheene to his first GP victory. Coming straight from his front row qualification at last weekend’s British Grand Prix, Vermeulen will be riding Sheene’s 1975 Suzuki XR-14 over the famous Goodwood hill-climb course. The rookie Australian counts Sheene as his biggest hero and one of the reasons that he took up road racing, and is delighted to have been given the opportunity to ride the bike.
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John Reynolds Takes To The Hill At Goodwood
06 July 2006
Triple British Superbike Champion John Reynolds will be riding his 2004 Championship winning Rizla Suzuki GSX-R1000 at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this weekend. It will be the first time that fans favourite JR will have ridden a Superbike since his retirement last October and he is excited at the prospect of riding up the famous 1.16-mile long Goodwood hill-climb course.
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Ducati Corse To Appear At Goodwood Festival Of Speed
05 July 2006
The 2006 Goodwood Festival of Speed will see Ducati represented by two fabulous machines with world famous riders on board. The Ducati Corse Moto GP Team will be bringing their two-seater MotoGP bike based on the Desmosedici GP6. It will be ridden ‘up the hill' by GP legend Randy Mamola. The bike is very similar to those ridden by Loris Capirossi and Sete Gibernau, but with two seats offering VIPs at selected events a unique, once in a lifetime experience of riding pillion with GP winner Randy Mamola as their pilot.
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BMW Motorrad at the Goodwood Festival of Speed
30 June 2006
For the first time in 14 years, the legendary Goodwood Festival of Speed will not clash with any major motorcycle races, which means one of the best turnouts from the biking world that the event has ever seen. BMW Motorrad UK will once again play a part in the annual celebration, which takes place on 7,8 and 9 July at Goodwood House near Chichester, East Sussex.
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Honda's Casey Stoner At Goodwood '06'
19 May 2006
Casey Stoner, one of Honda's up-and-coming young talents in MotoGP will be one of the two-wheeled attractions at this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed. The young Australian, who raced in the UK and won the 2001 British 125cc title, will be riding his Team LCR RC211V at the prestigious event. He will be joined by a host of Honda stars over the weekend of July 7th-9th, including 2004 World Superbike champion James Toseland and his Winston Ten Kate Honda Fireblade and HM Plant teamsters Karl Harris and Ryuichi Kiyonari on their Honda Racing CBR1000RRs.
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Honda Motorcycles Set To Star At Goodwood
17 June 2005
Legendary motorcycles and racers from Honda's glorious past will be the stars of the show as the Japanese motorcycle manufacturer celebrates a very special birthday at the Goodwood Festival of Speed on June 24-26.
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