The best drivers and riders gather to entertain the best dads

With Father’s Day just around the corner (Sunday 15 June), Goodwood is encouraging all good sons and daughters to show just how much they appreciate their dad, by treating him to a visit for this year’s Festival of Speed, being held at Goodwood House, near Chichester, West Sussex, on 11-13 July.

The Festival of Speed is firmly established as the world’s biggest celebration of the history of motor sport. Your hero (your dad) will be able to see a huge number of his favourite motor sport heroes in action, as many compete against the clock on the challenging 1.16-mile Goodwood Hill.

The theme of this year’s Festival is ‘Hawthorn to Hamilton – Britain’s Love Affair with World Motor Sport’. Britain has always played a key role in the global motor racing industry, forging successful relationships with the rest of the motor sport world. From Mike Hawthorn – who used a Ferrari to become Britain’s first Formula 1 World Champion fifty years ago in 1958 – to current F1 star Lewis Hamilton, driving a British engineered car with German power, British drivers and engineers have utilised global resources to achieve success. The 2008 Festival honours these winning combinations.

The list of competition drivers and riders appearing at this year’s Festival of Speed reads like a who’s who of motor sport champions. Current F1 stars, including Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button, will rub shoulders with the big names in WRC, World Superbikes, and many other motor sport categories, including Petter Solberg, Derek Bell, Stig Blomqvist, Troy Corser and Carl Fogarty. Father’s favourites like Sirs Stirling Moss and Jackie Stewart will join legends such as Damon Hill, Jochen Mass and Hannu Mikkola.

With over 350 vehicles entries, and 90 top drivers, the Festival of Speed will have something for every father’s taste:

Racing cars, spanning the decades from early Edwardian racing pioneers, through to current F1 cars, not forgetting legendary Le Mans endurance racers, throaty CanAm cars, current Supercars and a wealth of motorcycles

World rallying heroes - going sideways on the enhanced Goodwood Forest Rally Stage, plus a must-see tribute to rallying legend Colin McRae

An amazing display of iconic American top-fuel dragsters from the 1950s and 60s

Cartier ‘Style et Luxe’ automotive design competition, including a special class of famous cars used by 007 in the James Bond movies

An air display featuring the Red Arrows

The FoS-TECH technology pavilion, with plenty of exciting new concept cars

Add in great live music, plus the Junior Festival of Speed, and the Festival makes for the perfect summer outing, so that the whole family can have fun, not just dad.

Entry is by advance ticket only. Tickets are still available, so to order, please contact the Ticket Hotline by:
Telephone: +44 1243 755055
Fax: +44 1243 755058
Email via: bookings@goodwood.co.uk;
Otherwise, book on-line via the Online Ticket section of the goodwood.co.uk/fos/website