The 2012 running of the Goodwood Festival of Speed featured hundreds of great cars, motorcycles, drivers and riders taking to the 1.16-mile Goodwood hillclimb during the Festival weekend. The record crowd of 185,000 spectators at this year’s event were treated to many exceptional sights and moments.
Goodwood Festival of Speed 2012 highlights included the homage to Lotus, in the form of a massive sculpture outside Goodwood House, plus a great selection of more than 40 significant racing examples of the marque taking to the Festival hillclimb.
Choosing our Top 20 “Cars of Interest” among the hundreds of spectacular entrants is a difficult task, but we gave it our best effort. Lotus was the featured marque at the Festival of Speed, as the British company celebrates 60 years of innovation and motor sport success. Given the focus on Colin Chapman’s automobiles, we gave extra attention to the sporting Loti that powered up the hillclimb at Goodwood. We welcome your comments below if we missed your favorite.
Similar to our 2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed Hillclimb Photo Gallery, Lotus Photo Gallery and Cartier Style et Luxe Concours stories, photographer Tim Scott also provided the following images of our Top 20 Cars of Interest. To see more from Tim, visit fluidimages.co.uk.
Goodwood Festival of Speed 2012 – Top 20 Cars of Interest
The revolutionary Colin Chapman-designed 1962 Lotus 25 was the first fully stressed monocoque chassis to appear in Formula One. Many of its design principles are still followed in today’s F1 machines.
Ex-Dan Gurney Thompson-Buick Special in which ‘Handsome Dan’ finished twentieth in the 1962 Indy 500.
Ex-Klaus Ludwig Zakspeed Ford Capri. This 1.5-litre turbo beast captured the 1981 DRM title and multiple Le Mans winner Ludwig was reunited with the car over the Festival weekend.
1976 March 2-4-0 – Though never raced in period, this Robin Herd-designed machine was hillclimbed with some success by Roy Lane in 1979.
1952 Jaguar C-Type (XKC 005) piloted by Sir Stirling Moss and Norman Dewis. Moss drove this C-Type to victory in the 1952 Reims Grand Prix for sports cars.
For my dollars, I don’t think you can go wrong with the C-Type, especially in that color combo and with that race history.
Can’t argue with these choices. WANT them all. And the Rod Millen video was insane. That is chaos if I’ve ever seen it. Love it.