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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

Last Tango in the Fast Lane

30 April, 2026

In the mid ’80s, I locked into a serious Nissan/Datsun performance obsession. It could have kicked off with my ’82 Datsun Sunny, though this would have been a bit of a stretch of the imagination, given its normally aspirated 1.2-litre motor — not the sort of thing to unleash radical road warrior dreams. But it did plant a seed, and it was a sweet little machine and surprisingly quick, in contrast to all the diabolical English offerings I had endured.
I was living in South Auckland at the time and was an unrepentant petrolhead. Motor racing was my drug of choice, and I followed the scene slavishly. Saloon car racing, with the arrival of the international Group A formula, was having a serious renaissance here and in Australia and Europe. There was suddenly an exotic air in local racing that had been absent for 15 years.
I was transfixed by this new frontier of motor racing that had hit our tracks in 1985–87 and the new array of machinery on display. In 1986, the Nissan Skyline RS DR30 made a blinding impression on me. The Australian Fred Gibson-run, Peter Jackson-sponsored team of George Fury and Glenn Seton were the fastest crew of the 1986 Australian Touring Car Championship. But Kiwi legend Robbie Francevic snuck through to win the Aussie Championship in his Volvo 240T after a strong start and consistent finishes.

NZ Classic Car magazine, May/June 2026 issue 405, on sale now

26 April, 2026

Reincarnation of the snake
We are captivated by a top-quality sports car
The Shelby NZ build team at Matamata Panelworks has endured a long and challenging journey, culminating with the highly anticipated public unveiling of the 427SC and firing up of its sonorous V8 at the 2026 Ayrburn Classic Festival of Motoring in Queenstown on February 20. This is a New Zealand-built car with loads of character and potential.
The car is now back in Matamata, and I finally have an opportunity to get up close and personal with it. But before then, the question that must be asked is, “Why would ya?”
The first answer is easy, as mentioned in the last issue of New Zealand Classic Car (#404). It was a great way to use up all the surplus Mustang parts acquired while converting brand-new Mustangs into Shelbys. The unused new Mustang parts would be great in any kit car, but the 427SC in front of me cannot be classified as one.
This is not a kit car. The reality is that it is a high-quality, factory-made production car.
Possibly the second answer is because the CEO of Matamata Panelworks, Malcolm Sankey, wanted to build a replica of the car that is a distant relation to the Shelby Mustangs scattered around his showroom floor, a car created long before the first Mustang was even thought of, and the brainchild of Carroll Shelby back in the early ‘60s.