Goodwood Festival of Speed…Star Studded Line Up

Goodwood Festival of Speed have announced that there will be 125 star drivers at this years event which is being held on 12-14 July.

FI teams have a big part to play at the event which has had seven of the 2013 season F1 teams confirmed and they will include Red Bull Racing, Scuderia Ferrari, Vodafone McLaren Racing, Lotus, Mercedes GP, Marussia and Caterham. Current F1 drivers and leading characters in action at the Festival will include previous World Champions, Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton, as well as Nico Rosberg, Roman Grosjean, Max Chilton, Jules Bianchi, Sebastian Buemi, Marc Gene, Heikki Kovalainen and Adrian Newey.

Masters from the past include Alain Prost, Nelson Piquet, Sir Stirling Moss, Sir Jackie Stewart, John Surtees, Nick Heidfeld, Jochen Mass, Emerson Fittipaldi and Rene Arnoux. In total, 17 Grand Prix winners will be in action, and these legends have a total of 232 GP wins between them!

Question is who will beat Nick Heidfeld’s time of 41.6 seconds which he set in in 1999? At this years event Nick gets reunited with McLaren MP4/13.

Rallying legends include, IRC Champion, Andreas Mikkelsen in his 2013 VW Polo WRC, Spanish double World Champion Carlos Sainz, and Mikko Hirvonen’s Citroen DS3 WRC will also be in full flight on the Goodwood Forest Rally Stage. Other rallying greats who will be reacquainted with the cars that made them famous will include Juha Kankkunen, Björn Waldegård, Rauno Aaltonen, Jimmy McRae, Hannu Mikkola and Russell Brookes.

The great thing about the festival is the fact that the public get a chance to get up close with the drivers and riders and at this years event this is no exception as they will appear on the walkway leading into the exclusive BlackRock Drivers Club throughout the event.

A host of other star drivers and riders, plus cars and motorcycles from each of the world’s major motor sport disciplines, past and present, will also be featured at the FOS, including champions from Formula 1, Indycar, the World Rally Championship, Superbikes, NASCAR, World Sports Cars and Touring Cars, plus Land Speed Record holders.

2013 marks the 20th anniversary of the festival will also see many famous man and machine pairings reunited, including three-time Formula 1 World Champion (1983) Nelson Piquet returning to the cockpit of his celebrated Brabham BT52.

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