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Goodwood Circuit

Index Goodwood Circuit

Goodwood Circuit is a historic venue for both two- and four-wheeled motorsport in the United Kingdom. [1]

57 relations: Bentley, Bluebird-Proteus CN7, Brighton Speed Trials, Bristol Siddeley, British Automobile Racing Club, British Formula 3 International Series, British Touring Car Championship, Brooklands, Bruce McLaren, Chicane, Chichester, Chichester/Goodwood Airport, Cooper Car Company, Cycling Central, Dennis Poore, Donald Campbell, Downton Abbey, Eric Brandon, Firle Hill Climb, Formula One, Formula Three, Frederick Gordon-Lennox, 9th Duke of Richmond, Glover Trophy, Goodwood Festival of Speed, Goodwood House, Goodwood Revival, Graham Hill, Greenpower, Greenwich Mean Time, Greg LeMond, Gurston Down Motorsport Hillclimb, Hillclimbing, Hyde Park, London, Jacques Boyer, Jaguar Land Rover, Jim Clark, Land speed record, Lewes Speed Trials, Lola T70, McLaren, Mike Hawthorn, Mongol Rally, Mongolia, Peter Collins (racing driver), Peter Walker (racing driver), Prodrive, RAC Tourist Trophy, RAF Tangmere, RAF Westhampnett, Roger Penske, ..., Stirling Moss, Thruxton Circuit, Tour de France, United Kingdom, West Sussex, World War II, 1982 UCI Road World Championships. Expand index (7 more) »

Bentley

Bentley Motors Limited is a British manufacturer and marketer of luxury cars and SUVs—and a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG since 1998.

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Bluebird-Proteus CN7

The Bluebird-Proteus CN7 is a gas turbine-powered vehicle that was driven by Donald Campbell and achieved the world land speed record on Lake Eyre in Australia on 17 July 1964. The vehicle set the FIA world record for the flying mile at.

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Brighton Speed Trials

The Brighton Speed Trials, in full The Brighton National Speed Trials, is commonly held to be the oldest running motor race.

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Bristol Siddeley

Bristol Siddeley Engines Ltd (BSEL) was a British aero engine manufacturer.

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British Automobile Racing Club

The British Automobile Racing Club (BARC) is one of biggest organising clubs for auto racing in the United Kingdom.

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British Formula 3 International Series

The British Formula Three Championship was an international motor racing series that took place primarily in the United Kingdom with a small number of events in mainland Europe.

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British Touring Car Championship

The British Touring Car Championship is a touring car racing series held each year in the United Kingdom, currently organised and administered by TOCA.

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Brooklands

Brooklands was a motor racing circuit and aerodrome built near Weybridge in Surrey, England, United Kingdom.

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Bruce McLaren

Bruce Leslie McLaren (30 August 1937 – 2 June 1970) was a New Zealand race-car designer, driver, engineer and inventor.

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Chicane

A chicane is a serpentine curve in a road, added by design rather than dictated by geography.

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Chichester

Chichester is a cathedral city in West Sussex, in South-East England.

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Chichester/Goodwood Airport

Chichester/Goodwood Airport, normally referred to as Goodwood Airfield or Goodwood Aerodrome is located north northeast of Chichester, West Sussex, England.

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Cooper Car Company

The Cooper Car Company is a car manufacturer founded in December 1947 by Charles Cooper and his son John Cooper.

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Cycling Central

Cycling Central is an Australian sports program, that talks about the various cycling competitions in Australia and around the world.

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Dennis Poore

Roger Dennistoun "Dennis" Poore (19 August 1916, Paddington, London – 12 February 1987, Kensington) was a British entrepreneur, financier and sometime racing driver.

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Donald Campbell

Donald Malcolm Campbell, (23 March 19214 January 1967) was a British speed record breaker who broke eight absolute world speed records on water and on land in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey is a historical period drama television series set in England in the early 20th century, created by Julian Fellowes and co-produced by Carnival Films and Masterpiece.

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Eric Brandon

Eric Brandon (18 July 1920 in East Ham, Essex – 8 August 1982 in Gosport, Hampshire) was a motor racing driver and businessman.

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Firle Hill Climb

Firle Hill Climb is a defunct hillclimbing course near Lewes, East Sussex, England, sometimes referred to as Bo Peep Hill Climb.

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Formula One

Formula One (also Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of single-seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and owned by the Formula One Group.

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Formula Three

Formula Three, also called Formula 3 or F3, is a class of open-wheel formula racing.

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Frederick Gordon-Lennox, 9th Duke of Richmond

Frederick Charles Gordon-Lennox, 9th Duke of Richmond, 9th Duke of Lennox, 9th Duke of Aubigny, 4th Duke of Gordon (5 February 1904 – 2 November 1989) was a British peer, engineer, racing driver, and motor racing promoter.

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Glover Trophy

The Glover Trophy, also known as the Richmond Trophy, was a non-championship Formula One motor race held in the spring at Goodwood, England from 1949 to 1965.

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Goodwood Festival of Speed

The Goodwood Festival of Speed is an annual hill climb featuring historic motor racing vehicles held in the grounds of Goodwood House, West Sussex, England in late June or early July; the event is scheduled to avoid clashing with the Formula One season, enabling fans to see F1 machines as well as cars and motorbikes from motor racing history climb the hill.

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Goodwood House

Goodwood House is a country house and estate of covering in Westhampnett, Chichester, West Sussex, England.

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Goodwood Revival

The Goodwood Revival is a three-day festival held each September at Goodwood Circuit since 1998 for the types of road racing cars and motorcycle that would have competed during the circuit's original period—1948–1966.

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Graham Hill

Norman Graham Hill (15 February 1929 – 29 November 1975) was a British racing driver and team owner from England, who was twice Formula One World Champion.

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Greenpower

Greenpower is the trading name of a charitable organisation, the Greenpower Education Trust, whose objective is to inspire more young people to become engineers by presenting the engineering industry as an interesting and relevant career choice which could help to solve problems relating to the personal, social and emotional development (known in Britain as PSED) of individuals and societies.

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Greenwich Mean Time

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London.

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Greg LeMond

Gregory James "Greg" LeMond (born June 26, 1961) is an American former professional road racing cyclist who won the Road Race World Championship twice (1983 and 1989) and the Tour de France three times (1986, 1989 and 1990).

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Gurston Down Motorsport Hillclimb

The Gurston Down Speed Hill Climb is a hillclimb in Broad Chalke, Wiltshire, England, organised by the South Western Centre of the British Automobile Racing Club.

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Hillclimbing

Hillclimbing (also known as hill climbing, speed hillclimbing or speed hill climbing) is a branch of motorsport in which drivers compete against the clock to complete an uphill course.

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Hyde Park, London

Hyde Park is a Grade I-listed major park in Central London.

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Jacques Boyer

Jonathan "Jacques" or "Jock" Boyer (born October 8, 1955, in Moab, Utah) is a former professional cyclist who, in 1981, became the first American to participate in the Tour de France.

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Jaguar Land Rover

Jaguar Land Rover Automotive PLC is the holding company of Jaguar Land Rover Limited, a British multinational automotive company with its headquarters in Whitley, Coventry, United Kingdom, and a subsidiary of Indian automotive company Tata Motors.

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Jim Clark

James "Jim" Clark, Jr OBE (4 March 1936 – 7 April 1968) was a British Formula One racing driver from Scotland, who won two World Championships, in 1963 and 1965.

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Land speed record

The land speed record (or absolute land speed record) is the highest speed achieved by a person using a vehicle on land.

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Lewes Speed Trials

The Lewes Speed Trials were speed trials held on a defunct course in Lewes, Sussex, England, sometimes known as "The Motor Road.".

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Lola T70

The Lola T70 was developed by Lola Cars in 1965 in Great Britain for sports car racing.

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McLaren

McLaren Racing Limited, competing as McLaren F1 Team, is a British Formula One team based at the McLaren Technology Centre, Woking, Surrey, England.

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Mike Hawthorn

John Michael Hawthorn (10 April 1929 – 22 January 1959) was a British racing driver.

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Mongol Rally

The Mongol Rally is an intercontinental car rally that begins in Europe and ends in Ulan Ude, Russia.

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Mongolia

Mongolia (Monggol Ulus in Mongolian; in Mongolian Cyrillic) is a landlocked unitary sovereign state in East Asia.

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Peter Collins (racing driver)

Peter John Collins (6 November 1931 – 3 August 1958) was a British racing driver.

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Peter Walker (racing driver)

Peter Douglas Conyers Walker (7 October 1912 – 1 March 1984) was an English racing driver.

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Prodrive

Prodrive is a British motorsport and advanced engineering group based in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England.

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RAC Tourist Trophy

The International Tourist Trophy is an award given by the Royal Automobile Club (RAC) and awarded semi-annually to the winners of a selected motor racing event each year in the United Kingdom.

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RAF Tangmere

RAF Tangmere which was in Tangmere, 3 miles (5 km) east of Chichester, West Sussex, England, was a Royal Air Force station famous for its role in the Battle of Britain.

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RAF Westhampnett

RAF Westhampnett was a Royal Air Force station, located in the village of Westhampnett near Chichester, in the English County of West Sussex.

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Roger Penske

Roger Searle Penske (born February 20, 1937) is an American entrepreneur involved in professional auto racing.

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Stirling Moss

Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss (born 17 September 1929) is a British former Formula One racing driver.

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Thruxton Circuit

Thruxton Motorsport Centre is a motor-racing circuit located near the village of Thruxton in Hampshire, England which hosts motorsport events including British Touring Cars and Formula 3 racing.

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Tour de France

The Tour de France is an annual male multiple stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally making passes through nearby countries.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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West Sussex

West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering East Sussex (with Brighton and Hove) to the east, Hampshire to the west and Surrey to the north, and to the south the English Channel.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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1982 UCI Road World Championships

The 1982 UCI Road World Championships took place on 5 September 1982 in Goodwood, Great Britain.

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Goodwood Aerodrome and Motor Circuit, Goodwood Motor Circuit, Goodwood Motor Racing Circuit.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwood_Circuit

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