The Goodwood Festival of Speed is basically Glastonbury for motorsport fans, with every type of racing car and bike you could ever imagine being driven by
world famous drivers from across the globe.
Not exact matches
The legal battle pitches one of the
world's richest cities against a tech giant known for its forays into new markets around the
world that have prompted bans, restrictions and protests, including by
drivers of London's
famous black cabs.
Austria's little - known Adolf √ úbleis took on
famous opponents in the
world driver championships — and soon had them dancing to his tune
It's not often a
driver gets the chance to compete in one of the most
famous races in the
world with their childhood hero as a teammate
The 24 Hours of Daytona is one of the
world's most
famous races and this year sees some big names competing, with no less than 14 IndyCar
drivers confirmed for the event.
Among the
drivers jockeying for those final spots in the
world's most
famous race will be Ed Carpenter, who was cleared to race after his violent Saturday crash, Bryan Clauson and Oriol Servia, who also crashed.
Shelby's top
drivers were none other than Phil Hill, the 1961
world champion, and Dan Gurney, Hill's equally
famous fellow Californian.
Loeb only managed to set the second fastest time in Saturday's qualifying, but saved the best till last with a timesheet topping 44.60 sec sprint on Sunday, beating former GT1
World Champion and ex-grand prix driver Michael Bartels in his Maserati MC12 «Goodwood Cent 100» by 1.22 sec - cementing the 208 T16 as the fourth fastest car ever at the world famous e
World Champion and ex-grand prix
driver Michael Bartels in his Maserati MC12 «Goodwood Cent 100» by 1.22 sec - cementing the 208 T16 as the fourth fastest car ever at the
world famous e
world famous event.
Having ridden with other
famous rally
drivers — the late Erik Carlsson in his Saab 96 and former
World Rally champ Sandro Munari in a Fiat 131 Abarth — it's eminently impressive how overtly forceful they aren't when setting up for a corner or catching the car in a slide.
When I informed the sales guy at the dealership that I was a test
driver for a
world -
famous — and potentially highly vindictive — car magazine, all it inspired him to say was, «That's nice.»)
For a
driver, any
driver, that bomb is a potential minefield where a mental misstep, or the unfortunate circumstance of being caught up in another
driver's incident, or a breakdown of the car, or the politics of a sanctioning body can end your dreams of participating in the most
famous race in the
world.
Hakkinen was not the only
world -
famous driver among the crowd.
These aspects were finely tuned by some of the
world's best test
drivers in an extensive programme of track testing, using some of the
world's most
famous circuits.
When they're not busy heating up the race tracks, these
famous F1
drivers are being paw - rents to some of the luckiest furkids in the
world.
With your own
driver to chauffeur you around, you'll see the best of this fabulous,
world -
famous travel destination.
There are no officially licensed cars, although car design is absolutely based on the exterior designs of
famous cars such as the Montgomery Hyperion models are reminiscent to a Jaguar E-Type, while the Carson GT Concept has a striking resemblance to the Chevrolet Camaro and Watson Roadster is similar to a Lotus, alongside the Krieger Racing WTR that closely resembles Lewis Hamilton's
world driver's championship winning McLaren F1 car.
Blogger Mark from iBikeLondon summed it up nicely, I think, when he said: «On Saturday London felt like the most friendly city in the
world; tourists gawked and took photos as we passed, people cheered and applauded, children watched wide - eyed as the spectacle rolled on; even London's
famous drivers were [largely] hospitable.»
The city was finally able to conclude its eBay auction of the now
world -
famous, pimped - out motorized recliner it seized after arresting the recliner's
driver for operating under the influence.