{"id":13851,"date":"2025-07-31T11:47:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/?p=13851"},"modified":"2025-08-14T13:13:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:13:29","slug":"the-winning-formula-past-present-75-years-flat-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/?p=13851","title":{"rendered":"The Winning Formula: Past, Present, 75 Years Flat Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed \u2014 Origins didn\u2019t ride shotgun \u2014 they grabbed the wheel \u2013 took the inside line and never lifted.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goodwood Festival of Speed<\/a> 2025\u2019s theme \u2014 The Winning Formula: Champions and Challengers \u2014 didn\u2019t just celebrate 75 years of Formula 1. It conjured them. The McLaren MP4\/4. The Lotus 49B. The Ferrari 312T, powered by a Tipo 015 flat-12 boxer engine, howled as if the hill itself had summoned them back to settle unfinished business. As their echoes hung in the trees, the future came to fight \u2014 McLaren\u2019s W1, Maserati\u2019s MCPura, Zenvo\u2019s V12 beast \u2014 tearing into history\u2019s slipstream like it might just outrun it. Past and present didn\u2019t shake hands. They went flat out, separated by seconds and smoke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nigel Mansell in 1992 Williams FW14B. Photo Matt Alexander\/PA Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hot brakes and wildflowers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You don\u2019t ease into Goodwood. You arrive, and it grabs you by the collar. Petrol. Nostalgia. Ambition. The air smells like hot brakes and wildflowers \u2014 strange bedfellows, but perfect for this place. It clings to you in layers: sun-baked tarmac, sweet hay, and race fuel. The Hill pulses like a heartbeat \u2014 it is a sanctified strip of tarmac winding up the Duke of Richmond\u2019s estate. At just 1.16 miles long, it holds more soul than any modern Tilke circuit. Drivers don\u2019t race against each other here; they climb against time, memory, and expectation. No run-off, no warm-up, just a blind corner and the truth. Goodwood doesn\u2019t wait for you to find your rhythm. It demands it. Sir Jackie Stewart said, \u201cWhen you see cars like the (Lotus) 38, you just have to hold your breath.\u201d And this is the place where holding your breath becomes instinct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sir Jackie Stewart drives Tyrrell 006 on the hill climb. Photo Matt Alexander\/PA Media Assignments<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Record run<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In the timed shoot\u2011out, Romain Dumas, Goodwood\u2019s high priest of speed, returned with a Ford Supertruck stitched together from broken rules and ballistic aerodynamics. His 44.09-second run didn\u2019t just win\u2014it rewrote what a vehicle that size could do on this kind of surface, outpacing Subaru\u2019s Project Midnight, a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup bred for the climb, and a choir of hypercars \u2014 no margin for error at 125 mph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mario Andretti greets the Goodwood fans. Photo Jack Beasley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the public runs saw legends like the Ferrari 312T, Lotus 49B, Gordon Murray\u2019s T.50, and the blistering Huayra\u202fR\u2019s 6-litre AMG V12 assaulting the hill with ear\u2011splitting fury. The forest rally stage erupted – Pastrana\u2019s 862-hp long-travel Subaru, Neuville\u2019s WRC-spec Hyundai i20, and a battalion of gravel-slinging monsters tore through the trees at redline, rewriting physics with every clutch-kick, full-send jump, and compression-snapping landing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(L-R) Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Mario Andretti, Sir Jackie Stewart, Emerson Fittipaldi, Jacques Villeneuve and Mika H\u00e4kkinen take part in the champions balcony moment at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Photo Jas Lehal\/PA Media Assignments<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Legends return<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The emotional crescendo came Saturday afternoon. The balcony doors opened, and seven Formula 1 World Champions stepped forward: Jackie Stewart, Emerson Fittipaldi, Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell, Mario Andretti, Jacques Villeneuve, Mika H\u00e4kkinen. Not legends remembered \u2014 legends returned<\/em>. Decades of titles between them, each representing a different era of Formula 1\u2019s most unforgiving arena \u2014 from the romantic brutality of the 1970s to the turbocharged ferocity of the 1980s and the data-driven dance of the early 2000s. Their presence alone rewound the clocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mercedes-Benz C 11 racing prototype from 1990 on the Hill Climb. Driven in memory of Jochen Mass. Photo Mercedes-Benz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Prost and the McLaren MP4\/4<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Then came the sound. A 1.5-litre turbo V6 snarling to life. Prost stepped into the MP4\/4\u2014yes, that car<\/em>. Chassis #3, the carbon-fibre monocoque missile that once divided him and Senna. Underneath: Honda\u2019s RA168E engine, shrieking to 12,500 rpm, delivering 675 horsepower, wrapped in just 540 kilograms of fury. Born of rivalry, forged in tension, and two drivers who chased perfection at 185 mph, it was the most dominant car the sport has ever seen, with 15 out of 16 wins in the 1988 season. What once split teammates now split time. Prost didn\u2019t just drive \u2014 he delivered the MP4\/4 back to the fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the hill kept giving. Lauda\u2019s Ferrari 312T. Clark\u2019s Lotus 49B. Alonso\u2019s Renault R25. Each one alive, defiant, present. These machines weren\u2019t preserved. They were unleashed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kayla Delehant keeps Derek Bell cool.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The needle in the groove<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In a world increasingly sanitized and digitized, Goodwood remains gloriously analog. It\u2019s the needle in the groove. The crackle of vinyl. The sound of man and machine pushing against the edge\u2014and sometimes going over it. One moment, you\u2019re sipping a Negroni next to a 250 GTO. The next, you\u2019re wiping gravel off your jacket after standing too close to a Group B monster taking off. No one checks their watch, because there\u2019s no clock at Goodwood\u2014just the thrill of the now. And as long as there are those who love the dance of piston and gear, there will be a place where it\u2019s not only remembered\u2014it\u2019s revered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goodwood Festival of Speed 2026 takes place from 9 – 12 July. Follow here<\/a> for tickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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