Five special moments from the 2018 Goodwood Festival of Speed
Volkswagen’s electric Pikes Peak racer takes top honours at hill climb eventFirst Pikes Peak, now Goodwood – Volkswagen’s I.D. R continues to shine on circuit.
The electric racer, which posted a new outright record at last month’s Pikes Peak hill climb event in Colorado, topped the time sheets at the weekend’s Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK.
Multiple Le Mans 24h winner Romain Dumas was again the pilot, steering the 500kW machine to a time of 43.86 seconds on the 1.77km course.
In doing so, Dumas beat the previous record electric vehicle time, set in 2013, by 3.48 seconds.
Second in Sunday’s timed shootout at Goodwood was the prodigious road-going Nio EP9 electric racer, which managed a respectable 44.32 second time relying on its mammoth 1014kW outputs, derived from four electric motors. The seeming buzz kill for the Nio (in pure timing terms) was its weight, some 800kg more than the I.D. R.
Third in the rankings was the first petrol-powered offering, a BMW E36 M3 (46.43 seconds) that eschewed the original’s straight-six for a Le Mans-derived 3.5-litre Judd V8.
Meantime, the record-breaking Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo, which recently obliterated the longstanding Nurburgring Nordschleife record, was also an honourable mention at the Goodwood event.
Porsche declined to chase a time in the 919, but the time sheets revealed it set a post of 49.86 seconds on the Sunday afternoon, without its driver, Neel Jani, really trying.
Despite an increase in electric/hybrid entrants, the outright record at Goodwood, a 41.6 second post set by the McLaren MP4/13 in 1999, remained safe for another year.
In no particular order, here our five best Goodwood moments from 2018:
- VW’s I.D. R smashes the competition
- Aston Marin DBS Superleggera shreds its tyres
- British racer Billy Monger bounces back with an incredible drive
- An American gives the Brits a lesson in making noise
- Is there truly any replacement for displacement?
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