Goodwood Road&Racing

The front row offered a mouth-watering taste of the competition ahead, as Chris Ward and Formula 1 World Champion Jenson Button lined-up in a pair of equally matched Jaguar C-Types, with Theo Hunt alongside them in a sleek HWM-Jaguar. Slicing into Madgwick on the opening lap, Button instantly showcased his world-class racing prowess, nailing the start from second on the grid to seize the lead from last year’s winner, Ward.

One of the six engines on the upper stage quit as the rocket climbed away from Starbase in Texas, and SpaceX spokesman Dan Huot promptly told everyone watching that the orbital attempt was off. Minutes later he was back with the sort of line you cannot script: “We are not giving up yet.

Maserati had experienced a taste of competition in the newly established World Sportscar Championship (WSC) in 1953 and ’54, with an that competed in four races across those first two seasons. But it was the development of the in 1955 that marked the team’s full commitment to the series. Much of the 300S was derived from the Maserati 250F, the marque’s great Formula 1 car which had been developed the year prior.

Pole position belonged to Richard Wilson in his striking Maserati 250S, though he was surrounded by the Ferraris of Joe Macari, James Cottingham and Frank Stippler. When the flag dropped, the Maserati 250S immediately showed its pace as the trident-badged machine held its advantage. Behind it, Stippler’s Ferrari 250 MM made a spectacular opening move, slicing down the inside into Madgwick, while Macari dropped back to fourth in his Ferrari 250 TR.

The Maserati brothers experienced a landmark moment in 1926, when Alfieri Maserati himself drove the pioneering Tipo 26 to a stunning class victory at the Targa Florio, a ferocious statement of intent that set the tone for 100 years of racing heritage. Five years on arrived its successor, the Tipo 26M, which perfectly captured the brand's evolution. The Tipo 26M incorporated everything learned from intermediate variants — the Tipo 26B, 26C and 26R.

The front row featured a stunning line-up: an ERA B-type (R1B), a Maserati 4CL and an ERA A-type (R3A) — poster image for everything this event represents. When the flag dropped the grid stormed forwards, but before the opening lap was complete heartbreak struck for Michael Gans as a plume of smoke emerged from the back of his Maserati 4CL, the front-runner forced out of contention. The drama only heightened from there.

The Benjafield-Davis Cup will be a 20-minute contest featuring a full grid of vintage Bentleys of a type that raced between 1922 and 1930. In anticipation of what promises to be yet another unforgettable Goodwood moment, let’s recall the two men and their greatest motor racing feat, forever enshrined as pure Le Mans gold. S.C.H. ‘Sammy’ Davis’ Sydney Charles Houghton Davis was among early motor racing’s greatest enthusiasts, as sports editor of The Autocar.

Saturday afternoon saw cloudy but dry conditions when the flag dropped. The front row was locked out with talent: the Lotus-Climax 15 of Johnny Mowlem and Bonamy Grimes sat alongside the Lister-Jaguar 'Knobbly' Ecurie Ecosse of Gordon Shedden and Saif Assam, and the fellow Lotus-Climax 15 of William Nuthall and Massimo Bettati.

A deafening roar erupted across the Motor Circuit when these enormous engines fired up, an all-Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza front row flanked by the nimble Frazer Nash TT Replica of Robert Beebee. The battle of the Alfas began the moment the flag dropped, with both Patrick Blakeney-Edwards and Roderick Jack refusing to yield an inch of tarmac into the opening corner.

02nd October 2026 Andrew Frankel It seems silly to say so now after almost 20 years, but I really thought it would be easy. As in ‘fall off spinning log coated in soap’ easy. How could it not be? I had a 2008 Porsche 911 GT2 with 537PS (395kW), massive carbon ceramic brakes, all sorts of funky aero addenda and the very latest, stickiest Michelin Pilot Cup tyres. All I had to do was lap Goodwood faster than had a car with less than half the power from 40 years earlier.