{"id":793880,"date":"2021-07-20T15:12:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T14:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/?post_type=issue_content&p=793880"},"modified":"2021-07-22T20:08:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T19:08:27","slug":"stars-align-for-the-festival-of-speed","status":"publish","type":"issue_content","link":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/archive\/article\/september-2021\/16\/stars-align-for-the-festival-of-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars align for the Festival of Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Roger Penske and Mario Andretti upstaged Tom Cruise as the true stars of the 2021 Goodwood Festival of Speed, as crowds surged back to the Duke of Richmond\u2019s Sussex estate following the Covid-related hiatus of last year.<\/p>\n

Like the British Grand Prix which took place the following weekend, the Festival of Speed was part of the UK government\u2019s Events Research Programme that allowed thousands through the gates without face masks or social distancing restrictions. A sense of \u2018business as usual\u2019 was enhanced by a typical assortment of novelties, oddities, new features, greatest-hit classics and striking performances on the hillclimb.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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2021 Goodwood Festival of Speed<\/div>\n <\/header>\n
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The Forest Rally Stage<\/p>\n

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Esteban Guti\u00e9rrez was\nan ear-splitting\nattraction in the 2019 F1\nMercedes W1<\/p>\n

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Remembering Sir Stirling Moss<\/p>\n

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Roger Penske meets the crowds<\/p>\n

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The Duke of Richmond with Days of Thunder\nactor Tom Cruise<\/p>\n

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There’s plenty to see and do at Goodwood<\/p>\n

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Marino Franchitti behind the wheel of the Brabham BT44B at Goodwood<\/p>\n

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The Duke of Richmonds ceaseless has turned the FoS into one of the world’s leading historic motor sport events<\/p>\n

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McLaren 720S GT3X topped the hillclimb timesheet<\/p>\n

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Mario Andretti was celebrated as one of racing maestro’s<\/p>\n

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Modern stars such as McLaren F1 aces Lando Norris and Daniel Ricciardo naturally drew attention, but this was clearly the year of the octogenarians. Penske, 84, returned to Goodwood for the first time since he raced a Ferrari 250 GTO in the 1963 Tourist Trophy and drove the Porsche RS Spyder his famous team took to Sebring 12 Hours glory in 2008.<\/p>\n

Andretti, 81, revelled in being reunited with his F1 World Championship-winning Lotus 79 owned by Zak Brown, sampled a 1952 Ferrari 500 as raced by his childhood idol Alberto Ascari and caught up with old friends and rivals Sir Jackie Stewart, 82, and Emerson Fittipaldi \u2013a slip of a lad at 74.<\/p>\n

On the hill, McLaren factory GT driver Rob Bell stormed to fastest time of the\u00a0weekend in the Sunday afternoon shootout, managing a dramatic run in 45.01sec in a moody 720S GT3X. But Jack Tetley offered a timely reminder how Goodwood\u2019s narrow climb can bite when pushing on, dropping two wheels of his Chevrolet Camaro NASCAR on the grass on the run to the finish line. The car pinged between the straw bales, which contained the accident with welcome assurance. Liveried in the same Mello Yello colours run by Cole Trickle in Cruise\u2019s 1990 popcorn flick Days <\/em>of <\/em>Thunder, <\/em>Tetley\u2019s dazed emergence confirmed it wasn\u2019t actually Trickle himself behind the wheel.<\/p>\n

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Esteban Guti\u00e9rrez was an ear-splitting attraction in the 2019 F1 Mercedes W10<\/p>\n

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Lotus took centre-stage with its new Emira sports car, which was displayed virtually via a new \u2018multimedia\u2019 take on the Goodwood House central sculpture which conspicuously lacked an actual car.<\/p>\n

Moving tributes (in both a physical and emotional sense) were paid to Sir Stirling Moss, at the first Festival to take place since his death last year, to Murray Walker and Hannu Mikkola, while industrial designer Marc Newson\u2019s striking blue 1974 Lancia Stratos HF was a popular winner of the Cartier Style et Luxe. The concours was judged this year by a panel that included design legend Gordon Murray, AC\/DC frontman Brian Johnson, television presenter Dan Snow, Andretti United Extreme E racer Catie Munnings and influential designer, er, Marc Newson.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"author":739,"featured_media":793889,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[118730],"tags":[128292],"issue_decade":[],"issue_year":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/793880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue_content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/739"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793880"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/793880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795933,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/793880\/revisions\/795933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793880"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=793880"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=793880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}