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SUMMARY:Festival of Speed\, Goodwood
DESCRIPTION:Festival of Speed presented by Mastercard is celebrating 75 years of the Formula 1 World Championship.\n1992 Formula 1 World Champion Nigel Mansell to drive Williams FW11 and FW14B.\nFestival of Speed takes place Thursday 10 – Sunday 13 July.\nLimited Thursday tickets remain at goodwood.com.\n\nGoodwood is thrilled to announce that 1992 Formula 1 World Champion Nigel Mansell will return to this year’s Festival of Speed presented by Mastercard\, as the event joins forces with Formula 1 to celebrate 75 years of the F1 World Championship. \n2025 will be Mansell’s fourth visit to the Festival of Speed\, and will see the Formula 1 legend drive his 1992 Championship-winning Williams FW14B and race-winning FW11 – the car which would have taken him to the championship six years earlier\, in 1986\, but for a dramatic tyre failure 18 laps from the end of the final race in Adelaide – the latter supported by Honda Collection Hall. \n \nNigel Mansell’s career is the stuff of legend\, characterised by blinding speed\, fierce determination\, bitter rivalries\, stratospheric highs and devastating lows. It was a tale of triumph over adversity\, supported all the way by his wife Rosanne – the couple recently celebrated their golden wedding anniversary! His attacking style\, and steadfast refusal to accept defeat\, won him an army of fans globally\, but especially at home in the UK\, in Italy\, where the Tifosi named him ‘Il Leone’ (‘the lion’) during his two seasons at Ferrari\, and in America\, where he followed up his 1992 F1 World Championship by winning the IndyCar World Series at his first attempt in 1993 – he briefly held the two biggest single-seater titles in the world at the same time. \nIt’s rare for individual overtaking manoeuvres to be remembered\, but such was Nigel Mansell’s skill and bravery that he has four entries on the list of all-time greats: Silverstone 1987\, when he dummied team-mate (and fierce rival) Nelson Piquet into Stowe corner after overhauling a 30-second deficit following a mid-race pit stop; Hungary 1989\, when\, with lightning reflexes\, he out-fumbled Ayrton Senna as they came across a slow-moving backmarker; Mexico 1990\, when he went around the outside of Gerhard Berger into the flat-out Peraltada corner\, to snatch second on the penultimate lap; and Barcelona 1991\, when he duked it out\, wheel-to-wheel\, mere inches apart from Senna down the length of the pit straight\, creating one of the most memorable images in Formula 1 history. \nComing into Formula 1 in 1980\, as a protégé of Colin Chapman (he was the last driver signed by the Lotus founder)\, Mansell was devastated by his sudden death at the end of 1982. Without his mentor’s support\, he fell out of favour at Lotus\, and it wasn’t until the European Grand Prix at Brands Hatch in 1985\, after a switch to Williams\, that he finally became a Grand Prix winner. A further 30 Grand Prix wins followed\, between 1985 and 1994\, and Mansell retired as the most successful British Formula 1 driver of all time in terms of races won\, and remains second on that list to this day\, behind only Sir Lewis Hamilton. His 14 pole positions during the dominant 1992 season has only been beaten once\, by Sebastian Vettel in 2011\, but where Seb’s total of 15 came from 19 races\, Nigel needed only 16 races to reach 14. Such was the superiority of Mansell and the FW14B\, had the season gone on for three more races\, it is fair to assume his total would have been 17… \nSince his debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in 2006\, Nigel Mansell has delighted fans by driving several significant cars from his career\, including the 1982 Lotus 91 – Colin Chapman’s last Grand Prix-winning design – and\, in 2022\, being reunited with his 1992 Championship-winning FW14B for the first time in 30 years. In addition to his appearances\, Mansell’s cars have been showcased at Goodwood\, and in 2023 Sebastian Vettel took to the wheel of the FW14B\, with the car running on sustainable fuel to highlight his ‘Race Without Trace’ initiative. \nMansell will attend the Festival of Speed as part of the event’s single biggest celebration\, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Formula 1 World Championship. Mansell will join the Champions class alongside fellow champions\, and former team-mates\, Alain Prost and Mario Andretti\, with other legendary F1 names to be announced in the coming weeks. \nSpeaking ahead of the event\, 1992 Formula 1 World Champion Nigel Mansell said: “I’m looking forward to returning to the Festival of Speed this summer and celebrating 75 years of the Formula 1 World Championship. It’s been amazing to drive the Goodwood hillclimb in a number of my cars over the years\, and I can’t wait to do it all again!” \nThe Duke of Richmond CBE DL said: “I couldn’t be happier that Nigel will be coming back to the Festival of Speed this year\, as we host our biggest ever celebration to mark 75 years of the Formula 1 World Championship. Nigel was more than just a legend of the sport\, he was a hero\, and celebrating Formula 1 without him would be unthinkable! As well as being one of the fastest\, bravest and most determined drivers of all time\, he inspired a level of devotion amongst British fans the like of which we have never seen before or since. We got a small glimpse of ‘Mansell Mania’ when he came to Goodwood three years ago\, and I look forward to its return in July.” \nNigel Mansell joins the previously-announced Champions Alain Prost and Mario Andretti\, the celebration for four-time WorldSBK Champion Carl Fogarty\, the biggest celebration of Formula 1\, and Gordon Murray Automotive’s impressive Central Feature sculpture.
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CATEGORIES:Festival,Motor Sport
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SUMMARY:Hagerty Festival of the Unexpected\, Lincs
DESCRIPTION:2025 marks 11 years of the Hagerty Festival of the Unexceptional\, the only event to celebrate the brilliance of basic when it comes to mundane motors. This unique festival continues to grow in popularity\, with owners and visitors from all over the world\, but what is an ‘Unexceptional’ car? Hagerty experts explain what makes a forgotten motor a FOTU hero. \nGrimsthorpe Castle in Lincolnshire is a typical classic car event location\, with pristine heritage lawns and gardens\, beautiful woodland and of course\, a wonderful stately home that is steeped in history. It’s where you might expect to see a display of highly collectible classics\, heralded for their beauty\, performance or racing provenance\, many worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. But Festival of the Unexceptional is about the cars you won’t find in glossy auction catalogues\, it’s about the cars we can all relate to\, because we owned them\, or our parents owned them. \nTo the untrained eye these are the mass-produced cars of the motor industry that have long been left behind\, but thanks to FOTU\, the Unexceptional movement is growing\, celebrating the ordinary automobiles\, commuter cars\, repmobiles and family motors of the 70s\, 80s and 90s. Like any prestigious classic car show\, it even has its own concours\, where 50 much-loved models will be judged in front of the castle as part of the Concours de l’Ordinaire. \n \nWhat makes cars like this the stars of the Festival of the Unexceptional is the fact they have been preserved despite their ordinariness. Their owners’ enthusiasm goes far beyond investment potential\, 0-60 mph times or Instagram aura. Consider this – a quick Google search will likely find the part needed for a 60s Italian sportscar\, but try the same exercise for a part for a Talbot Solara\, now that’s not so easy. These cars are a labour of love\, not built for profit or collectibility and keeping them in concours condition is an exceptional feat in itself. \nThen there’s the memories. Perhaps your parents had an Austin Maxi you remember well\, or you lusted after the new Fiesta Popular of your neighbour. Maybe it was the Skoda Rapide Coupe that always caught your eye in the local showroom or the Yugo 45 you saw in one of the many motoring magazines of the era. Whatever the reason\, the cars of FOTU all have a story to tell. \nOne such story is that of 2025 Concours de l’Ordinaire runner-up Amy Jaine\, who still drives the 1998 Renault Clio that her gran used to ferry her around in\, Now she takes her gran out for day trips. A great story helped an immaculately maintained but thoroughly-used Toyota Hilux take top honours the same year. As with many classics\, there is always a story behind the car. \n \nFOTU owners also cherish originality. In 2023\, Concours runner-up Sion Hudson spent two years correctly de-specifying his 1983 Austin Metro\, removing upgrades added by its previous owner so that it returned exactly to the specification it had when it left the Austin-Rover factory in Longbridge. This included removing side-repeater indicators for extremely hard to find blanking plates\, a reflection of the devotion to these cars that so many can appreciate. \nPerhaps even more important is the welcoming atmosphere and affordability of FOTU car ownership. There’s no snobbery or tribalism and some eligible vehicles can be picked up for pocket money. As a result\, the FOTU crowd seems to get younger every year\, bringing new blood into the classic car world and helping to secure its future and inspire others. \nMark Roper\, Managing Director of classic vehicle insurer Hagerty UK\, said\, “Festival of the Unexceptional and FOTU-era cars offer a way for more people to enjoy owing a classic\, and to be a part of a unique element of emerging car culture. Hagerty launched FOTU 11 years ago\, and every year it gets bigger and better. 2025 will be a great family event and we look forward to welcoming fans of unexceptional cars on 26 July.“ \nTickets for the 2025 Festival of the Unexceptional are available now\, giving visitors full access to what could be the peak era of FOTU cars. Entry is free for children under 15 and all tickets include the opportunity to watch a live recording of the Smith & Sniff podcast. FOTU is as much about family as it is about unexceptional cars and visitors will be treated to a host of live entertainment throughout the day\, thousands of unexceptional cars and there will be relevant trade stands and presentations.
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