Goodwood Festival of Speed 2025

Festival of Speed 2025 gets fully underway tomorrow – 11th July – and this year the central theme celebrates 75 years of the Formula 1 World Championship with an unrivalled collection of cars and personalities from across the decades. Dozens of iconic machines will include the Williams FW14B, McLaren MP4/4 and Tyrell P34 six-wheeler whilst ex. World Champions in attendance will include Jackie Stewart, Nigel Mansell and Alain Prost.

Competition machinery of all types, from Edwardian behemoths to current F1 cars, Superbikes to Group B rally cars, will take to the famous hill in an unprecedented display of power and skill. Timed runs across Friday and Saturday will decide the make-up of Sunday’s final shootout – won last year by Romain Dumas in the Ford Supervan.

Away from the track, the lawns of Goodwood House with play host to the Cartier Style et Luxe concours which this year includes classes celebrating the Centenaries of both the Rolls Royce Phantom and Invicta as well as the 60th birthdays of Alpina and, rather more prosaically, the Ford Transit!

The Festival is becoming an important launchpad for new models and this year sees the unveiling of important new ranges and concepts from Aston Martin, BMW and Honda amongst many others. Stroll through the First Glance Paddock to check out the latest offerings.

For those who prefer a bit of mud with their cars, the forest rally stage will be thrilling spectators once again. Open access to the paddock allows unprecedented close up views of genuine Work’s WRC machinery and the possibility of bumping into Sebastian Loeb!

Bonhams auction

The 2025 Festival of Speed auction sees over 120 lots cross the auction block in the traditional Friday slot. One of the undoubted highlights will be the 2023 Mercedes-AMG One coupe shown on the right. One of only 275 built and having covered only 100 miles you can join an exclusive list of owners that includes several ex- F1 drivers. est. £2.4m – £2.8m

If your tastes err more on the traditional side a wonderfully patinated 1928 Bentley 4 1/2 litre Vanden Plas tourer carries an attractive estimate of £280,000 – £320,000 whilst an eyecatching black 300SL Roadster could be yours for less than £1m.

Coming more up to date, other lots that caught our eye include a 2007 Bugatti Veyron with only 700 miles (£500-800,000), a 1992 Jaguar XJ220 (£300-350,000) and a one owner 1994 Dodge Viper (£45-55,000).