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<\/a><\/p>\nIt\u2019s difficult to imagine that after so many years the Duke and his team can find new gems to delight the visitors, but each year they do. Yes there are old fiends from previous Festivals, but 2019 being no exception, there are always firsts at Goodwood.<\/p>\n 2019 seemed to coincide with many anniversaries, resulting in Goodwood celebrating classes for: 100 years of Bentley; 50 years of March Engineering; 125 years of Mercedes in Motorsport; 60 years of Honda in motorcycle racing; Michael Schumacher at 50; and 70 years of Aston Martin at Goodwood. Other collections for sports racers, F1, Drifters and Rallying completed the live action. Concours classes graced his Grace\u2019s lawns with classes for Bentley, Avions, Abarth, Bugatti, Zagato, Aston Martin and, unusually for a concours but why not, VW vans.<\/p>\n You get what it says on the tin, the event is a festival of speed, both old and new. Noticeable over the past few years is the emphasis on modern Supercars and now electric vehicles with the hillclimb speed record going this year, unofficially, to the 2019 Volkswagen ID.R all electric prototype. Unofficially, because although the ID.R broke the record in practice for Sunday\u2019s timed shootout the hill was damp forcing driver Romain Dumas to back off in the whooshing VW monster. But the writing is on the wall.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>