Goodwood Festival of Speed Hillclimb, Hill Climb

The Goodwood Festival of Speed Hillclimb is a temporary speed course laid out along the private driveway of Goodwood House in West Sussex, England. Founded in 1993 by Lord March (later the Duke of Richmond) to bring motorsport back to the family estate, the event has grown into the world's largest motoring garden party, drawing hundreds of thousands of spectators each summer alongside an extraordinary roster of historic and contemporary race and road cars. The climb itself measures roughly 1.16 miles (1.86 km) and rises about 93 metres over nine turns, with an average gradient near 5 percent. Its character comes from the close, hedge-and-estate setting: drivers thread past the house, attack the deceptive crest at Molecomb, where misjudged braking has caught out many, and then square up to the notorious left-hander beside the jagged flint wall, which has claimed plenty of bodywork over the years. The weekend builds to a timed Sunday Shootout, in which the quickest competitors run flat-out against the clock; the outright record of 39.08 seconds was set in 2022 by Max Chilton in the electric McMurtry Speirling. The hillclimb should not be confused with the nearby Goodwood Motor Circuit, a separate permanent track that hosts the September Goodwood Revival.

Organised by: Duke of Richmond (Goodwood Estate)

Also known as: Goodwood Hillclimb, Festival of Speed