Goodwood: How Porsche celebrated 75 years of sports cars 🎥
WHERE YOU MEET How to celebrate anniversaries properly was once again demonstrated by Porsche at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in West Sussex in southern England with enthusiastic motorsport fans from all over the world.
Background: A cross between the Monaco Grand Prix and Royal Ascot, the world's oldest racecourse, is how the British newspaper Sunday Times described the legendary hillclimb race founded 30 years ago as part of the Festival of Speed. The course runs through the parkland of Goodwood House, the estate of Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 11th Duke of Richmond.
The motor sports enthusiast aristocrat launched the Goodwood Festival of Speed in 1993. Every year, around 180,000 fans come to this event for historic and modern racing cars and supercars in West Sussex in southern England. So there are two occasions to pop the corks.
Fire, music and bolide parade
To mark the 75th anniversary of the Porsche brand, a sculpture by artist Gerry Judah at Goodwood House formed the centerpiece of the festival, around which the Stuttgart company's most famous and successful bolides were presented in the "Special Moment" show with fireworks and music.
And in the parade up the famous hill, the 356 "No. 1" Roadster led the field. It was followed by, among others, the 928 "Trigema" racing version from 1983, a Cayenne Transsyberia, a 959, a 911 Turbo S (Type 993) and a very special 911 Carrera S (991). This one-off was the one millionth 911 produced since the sports car icon was launched in 1963.
Memories of Le Mans victories
The Stuttgart company also celebrated the 100th anniversary of the 24 Hours of Le Mans at Goodwood. After all, the brand holds the record of 19 overall victories. Among other things, Porsche will be showing three class winners and three overall winners at Goodwood. These include the 718 W-RS Spyder (winner of the 2.0-liter class in 1961), the 935 Martini (class winner in 1976) and the "sow"-style 911 RSR (winner of the GTE Pro class in 2018). The trio of overall winners is formed by the 936/81 Spyder, the 911 GT1 in 1998 and the 919 Hybrid of 2017. These were also Goodwood to see in action and, above all, to hear with rich sound.
But that was not all: In addition to current models, visitors were also able to examine a Porsche diesel tractor "Junior 108". Parallel to the production of the Porsche 356, orders of this kind were an integral part of the range. Between 1949 and July 1963, around 120,000 tractors rolled off the production line under license with the Porsche name.
