The Renault RE40 could – perhaps should – have been the first turbo-powered car to win the world championship.
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F1 cars 2000-present at the Goodwood Festival
2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed
Posted onFerrari, McLaren, Red Bull and Mercedes demonstrated some of their most recent cars to Goodwood – and Williams brought Jenson Button’s 2000 car.
1980 and 1990s F1 cars at the Goodwood Festival
2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed
Posted onThe Jordan 191, often hailed as one of the most beautiful F1 cars of all time, is among the collection of eighties and nineties machines at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
1970s F1 cars at the 2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed
2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed
Posted onA collection of distinctive F1 racers of the 1970s are on display at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
McLaren MP4-13: McLaren’s last constructors’ title-winner
2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed
Posted onMcLaren won their most recent constructors’ championship with the Adrian Newey-designed MP4-13 in 1998. It also holds Goodwood’s hill record…
1950s and 1960s F1 cars at the Goodwood Festival
2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed
Posted onThe beautiful 1967 Eagle-Weslake T1G, thundering V16-engined BRM P15 and more F1 cars of the fifites and sixties.
Porsche 804: Porsche’s only F1 race-winner
2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed
Posted onThe Porsche 804 scored their first F1 win 50 years ago – but the team pulled the plug on its Formula 1 programme shortly afterwards.
F1 Lotuses celebrated at the Goodwood Festival
2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed
Posted onDozens of different F1 Lotuses, some of the most successful and unusual F1 cars ever raced, are on display at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
Three cars, 18 tyres: F1 six-wheelers at Goodwood
2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed
Posted onThe Tyrrell P34, Williams FW08D and March 2-4-0 are among the only F1 cars ever to be built with six wheels.
Caption Competition 15: Sir Stirling Moss and friends
Caption Competition
Posted onWith the Goodwood Festival of Speed coming up soon, here’s a picture of Sir Stirling Moss at an earlier Festival for this week’s Caption Competition.
Chandhok: Indian track “will be ready, there’s no doubt”
Interview
Posted onKarun Chandhok believes India’s F1 track will be ready on time.
Top ten non-F1 cars at the Goodwood Festival
Goodwood Festival of Speed
Posted onMy ten favourite cars from the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
Indianapolis 500 centenary celebration at Goodwood
Goodwood Festival of Speed
Posted onWonderful and weird IndyCars from 100 years of the Indianapolis 500.
Star drivers at the 2011 Goodwood Festival
Goodwood Festival of Speed
Posted onF1 and other motor racing drivers in familiar and unfamiliar cars,
McLaren MP4/1: Carbon fibre revolutionary
Goodwood Festival of Speed
Posted onMcLaren’s 1981 MP4/1 was a rare step forward for both performance and safety.
Williams FW15C: F1’s high-tech pinnacle
Goodwood Festival of Speed
Posted onThe FW15C bristled with gadgets, most of which were banned after it dominated in 1993.
Martin Donnelly gets back in a Lotus 102
Goodwood Festival of Speed
Posted onMartin Donnelly got back behind the wheel of a Lotus 102, in which he suffered a dreadful crash in 1990.
Renault RS01: F1’s turbo pioneer
Goodwood Festival of Speed
Posted onThe turbo era started with one rather ugly and chronically unreliable car: the Renault RS01.
Ferguson P99: The only four-wheel-drive F1 winner
Goodwood Festival of Speed
Posted onThe only victory scored by a four-wheel-drive car in a Formula 1 race came 50 years ago.
Lancia D50: Ferrari inherit a title-winning car
Goodwood Festival of Speed
Posted onIt crashed into the Monaco harbour and won a championship – though not for the team that built it.