Meeting the great British public’s insatiable need for speed
The annual Goodwood Festival of Speed in England is a roaring success – and today is the last day of this year’s event
Charles Gordon-Lennox (Lord March, 11th Duke of Richmond, 11th Duke of Lennox, 11th Duke of Aubigny, 6th Duke of Gordon, to give him his full title) changed the concept of a publicly-attended motorsport event for ever when he launched the first ever Festival of Speed on his Goodwood estate in West Sussex in 1993. Some 25,000 spectators attended the one-day event. This weekend, though, some 200,000 people will have passed through the gates ...
