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Goodwood Festival of Speed 2017 — Live stream!

29 June, 2017

The Goodwood Festival of Speed is about to kick off for another year of high-speed radness and we’ve got all the action streaming here LIVE for the whole weekend. 

Although only three Kiwis appear on the drivers/riders list, they’re some damn fine choices at that. Eleven-time Isle of Man TT winner and Wellingtonian Bruce Anstey will Padgett’s Motorcycles Honda RCV213-S which he premiered at the recent TT on the Isle’. Local drifting legend ‘Mad’ Mike Whiddett has made his annual pilgrimage to Lord March’s estate to for the third consecutive year, taking his MADBUL FD RX-7.

And finally ’70s Formula 1 driver Howden Ganley, who hasn’t been assigned a specific vehicle on the list as of yet. Unfortunately Rod Millen is too caught up climbing mountains (centennial celebrations for the Pikes Peak Hillclimb) to attend this years festivities.

For those of you who are still scratching your heads wondering what the hell a Goodwood Festival is, who better to give you a quick intro than Lord March himself (hat tip to The Telegraph):

“This is our 25th Festival of Speed and I’m looking forward to it as much as ever … our Festival theme for 2017 is ‘Peaks of Performance – Motorsport’s Game Changers’. To illustrate the theme, we have filled the paddocks with cars and bikes that were so much faster, and more sophisticated, than their rivals that in many cases the rules were changed to restore competition.

“As ever we are celebrating lots of important anniversaries, providing us with a platform on which to create a Festival that reflects the absolute greatest cars, bikes, drivers and riders. Then, added to this core of the event, we will have a fantastic gathering of supercars, F1 teams, the amazing Goodwood Action Sports (GAS) bike riders, the very latest road cars and those sensational Group B cars out on the Forest Rally Stage … nowhere else in the world will you see such great cars and bikes all gathered together in one place at one time.

I look forward to seeing you all here – and I hope you have a great time.”

Watch all of the festivals goodness below:

 

Schedule (local time)

Saturday
8:30am — Sportscars and GTs
9:20am — Pre-War Cars and Bikes
10:00am — Goodwood Action Sports Show
10:10am — Supercars and First Glance Cars
10:15am — Action Sports Arena Show
10:55am — Formula 1
11:00am — Air Display – RED ARROWS
11:35am — Touring Cars, NASCAR, Rally and Drift
12:20pm — Ferrari Sportscars and Single-Seaters
12:30pm — Goodwood Action Sports Show
12:55pm — Ferrari Moment – Front of House
1:15pm — Supercars and Race Cars for the Road Shoot-Out
1:15pm — Action Sports Arena Show
2:10pm — Ferrari Sportscars and Single-Seaters
2:30pm — Goodwood Action Sports Show
2:50pm — Formula 1
3:15pm — Action Sports Arena Show
3:30pm— Qualifying Shoot-Out
4:00pm— Air Display – TYPHOON
4:20pm— Pre-War Cars and Bikes
5:05pm — Sportscars and GTs
5:30pm — Action Sports Arena Show
5:50pm — Touring Cars, NASCAR, Rally and Drift

Sunday
8:30am — Touring Cars, NASCAR, Rally and Drift
9:15am — Pre-War Cars and Bikes
10:00am — Action Sports Arena Show
10:05am — Sportscars and GTs
10:55am — Supercars and First Glance Cars
11:00am — Goodwood Action Sports Show
11:40am — Formula 1
12:00pm — Action Sports Arena Show
12:25pm — Ferrari Sportscars and Single-Seaters
12:45pm — Air Display – TYPHOON
1:00pm — Goodwood Action Sports Show
1:10pm — Touring Cars, NASCAR, Rally and Drift
1:45pm — Sportscars and GTs
2:00pm — Action Sports Arena Show
2:30pm — Formula 1
3:00pm — Bernie Ecclestone Central Feature Moment
3:20pm — Ferrari Sportscars and Single-Seaters
3:30pm — Goodwood Action Sports Show
3:55pm — Shoot-Out
5:00pm — Action Sports Arena Show
5:10pm — Supercars and First Glance Cars
6:00hrs — Pre-War Cars and Bikes

Lunch with … Cary Taylor

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Many years ago — in June 1995 to be more precise — I was being wowed with yet another terrific tale from Geoff Manning who had worked spanners on all types of racing cars. We were chatting at Bruce McLaren Intermediate school on the 25th anniversary of the death of the extraordinary Kiwi for whom the school was named. Geoff, who had been part of Ford’s Le Mans programme in the ’60s, and also Graham Hill’s chief mechanic — clearly realising that he had me in the palm of his hand — offered a piece of advice that I’ve never forgotten: “If you want the really good stories, talk to the mechanics.”
Without doubt the top mechanics, those involved in the highest echelons of motor racing, have stories galore — after all, they had relationships with their drivers so intimate that, to quote Geoff all those years ago, “Mechanics know what really happened.”

ROTARY CHIC

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Kerry Bowman readily describes himself as a dyed-in-the-wool Citroën fan and a keen Citroën Car Club member. His Auckland home holds some of the chic French cars and many parts. He has also owned a number of examples of the marque as daily drivers, but he now drives a Birotor GS. They are rare, even in France, and this is a car which was not supposed to see the light of day outside France’s borders, yet somehow this one escaped the buyback to be one of the few survivors out in the world.
It’s a special car Kerry first saw while overseas in the ’70s, indulging an interest sparked early on by his father’s keenness for Citroëns back home in Tauranga. He was keen to see one ‘in the flesh’.
“I got interested in this Birotor when I bought a GS in Paris in 1972. I got in contact with Citroën Cars in Slough, and they got me an invitation to the Earls Court Motor Show where they had the first Birotor prototype on display. I said to a guy on the stand, ‘I’d like one of these,’ and he said I wouldn’t be allowed to get one. Citroën were building them for their own market to test them, and they were only left-hand drive.”