The Goodwood Festival of Speed 2026 will return from Thursday July 9 to Sunday July 12 with a programme spanning Formula 1, endurance racing, MotoGP, WorldSBK, rallying, IndyCar, the Isle of Man TT, contemporary supercars and major road-car debuts. Here’s Magneto‘s guide to what to take in during an action-packed four days.
The theme of the Festival of Speed 2026, The Rivals – Epic Racing Duels, will provide the central thread for the event, with Goodwood marking some of motor sport’s most significant head-to-head contests. Chief among them will be the 60th anniversary of Ford’s victory over Ferrari at the 1966 Le Mans 24 Hours, when its GT40 MkIIs finished first, second and third. The three cars from that famous finish, chassis P/1046, P/1015 and P/1016, will appear together on the Hill and will also run at the Goodwood Revival in September. A rare treat indeed!
The Festival will also mark 50 years since James Hunt beat Niki Lauda to the 1976 Formula 1 World Championship, while Damon Hill will celebrate 30 years since his own title success. Hill will be reunited with the Williams FW18 that carried him to the 1996 World Championship, and will appear on the balcony of Goodwood House on Sunday. Williams team principal James Vowles, Jamie Chadwick and Luke Browning will also be part of the team’s presence at the event, with the FW18 returning to action after an extensive restoration by Williams F1 Team Heritage.
Formula 1 will again be strongly represented at Festival of Speed 2026. Reigning World Champion Lando Norris will headline the weekend, driving McLaren’s MCL60 on Saturday before appearing on the balcony. He will be joined across the event by further McLaren heritage machinery driven by Leonardo Fornaroli, Bruno Senna and Rob Garofall. Mercedes-AMG Petronas will bring its 2024 W15 and an interactive fan hub, while Scuderia Ferrari will mark 75 years of racing heritage. Aston Martin, Williams, Alpine, Red Bull and Racing Bulls are also due to attend, with current and heritage machinery running on the Hill.
Red Bull and Racing Bulls will bring a roster including Liam Lawson, Arvid Lindblad, Yuki Tsunoda, Isack Hadjar, Ayumu Iwasa and Patrick Friesacher, while Alpine’s Pierre Gasly and Franco Colapinto will demonstrate the E20. Aston Martin’s Jak Crawford and Jessica Hawkins will run the AMR25 before appearing in the new FOS Fan Zone. Norris will also appear on Friday alongside Valentino Rossi as part of a Monster Energy celebration, marking Rossi’s first Festival of Speed appearance since 2015.
Motorcycle racing will form a major part of the Festival of Speed 2026 programme. Ducati will celebrate its centenary on Thursday with a balcony moment featuring Carl Fogarty, Casey Stoner, Troy Bayliss, Shane Byrne, Tommy Bridewell, Michael Rutter, Josh Brookes, Nicolò Bulega and Iker Lecuona. Ducati will also show its Collezione 100, a ten-bike limited-edition series painted in liveries inspired by important machines from the marque’s past, including the Panigale V4 S 100 and Diavel V4 RS 100.
Goodwood’s year-long tribute to Barry Sheene will continue at the Festival of Speed 2026 with around ten significant Grand Prix bikes from his career. Sheene won two 500cc World Championships and 23 Grands Prix, and the Festival display will mark 50 years since his first world title. His son Freddie Sheene is set to ride several of his father’s most recognisable machines up the Hill. John McGuinness will be honoured on Friday, 30 years after his TT debut and 20 years after his Isle of Man TT hat-trick.
One of the largest new additions to the Festival of Speed 2026 will be the FOS Fan Zone presented by Pirelli. Hosted by Ariana Bravo and Jarod DeAnda, it will stage Q&As, podcasts and panel sessions with figures including Damon Hill, Tom Kristensen, Emanuele Pirro, Gerhard Berger, James Vowles, Jamie Chadwick, Freddie Sheene, Freddie Hunt and Tom Hunt. Sim rigs, merchandise and photo opportunities will also be included within the main event ticket.
Bonhams will also have a new presence at the Festival of Speed 2026, based in Brooklands Paddock. The auction house will stage The World’s Smallest Car Auction, a twice-daily live charity auction intended to introduce a younger audience to the auction process through accessible scale models of notable cars previously sold by Bonhams. Lots will include a scale Aston Martin DB5, a car whose full-size story is closely linked to the James Bond films.
The Brooklands Paddock display will also preview the Goodwood Revival Sale on September 19, following Bonhams’ decision to combine its previous Festival of Speed and Revival auctions into one Revival sale for 2026. The display will include a 1925 Bugatti Type 35C (pictured above), offered without reserve at an estimate of £500k to £700k, shown alongside a Bugatti Baby 2, the 75 percent-scale electric reinterpretation by Hedley Studios that has also been consigned to the Revival Sale. A 1936 Aston Martin 2-Litre Speed Competition two-seater, estimated at £500k to £600k, will also appear. Bonhams will present the display in its new brand identity – the first time its cars have appeared within the updated look.
Singer will be celebrated with the Festival of Speed 2026’s Central Feature in front of Goodwood House. The company, founded by Rob Dickinson in 2009, has become known for reimagining the Porsche 911 through design, engineering, material science and craftsmanship. Singer has previously used Goodwood for major debuts including DLS, Classic Turbo, DLS Turbo and the Porsche 911 Carrera Coupe Reimagined by Singer. For 2026, its presence will extend beyond the Central Feature to a stand in front of the Stable Yard, the Supercar Paddock and the Hill.
Audi Tradition will give the recreated Auto Union Lucca its first public appearance in motion at the Festival of Speed 2026. The streamlined Rennlimousine, a period term for racing saloon, recreates the spectacular record car used by Hans Stuck on February 15, 1935, when Auto Union set a flying-start mile average of 320.267km/h on the autostrada near Lucca, Italy. Measuring equipment also recorded a peak speed of 326.975km/h, allowing Auto Union to promote the machine as the fastest road-racing car in the world.
The original model was developed during the intense 1930s battle between Auto Union and Mercedes-Benz, with the four rings pursuing aerodynamic advantage through wind-tunnel work at the Berlin-Adlershof Aeronautical Research Institute. Based on the Type A Grand Prix car, it used a mid-mounted 16-cylinder engine, an elongated light-metal body, covered wheels, a closed cockpit and a fin-like tail. After the Italian record attempt, modified Rennlimousine appeared at the 1935 Avus race, although neither finished.
The new Auto Union Lucca was built for Audi Tradition by British specialist Crosthwaite & Gardiner using archive photographs and documents. The three-year project required hand-made components, including the complex cockpit canopy and tapered tail. It has been fitted with a 6.0-litre Auto Union Type C engine, visually interchangeable with the original 5.0-litre unit, while selected Avus cooling modifications have been adopted to protect the car during demonstration runs. Audi measured a drag coefficient of 0.43 in its wind tunnel in April.
The Goodwood Festival of Speed 2026 will host an Americana Celebration presented by Bank of America, timed close to the United States’ 250th anniversary. Cathedral Paddock will feature up to 50 American cars and bikes, marking anniversaries including 110 years of the Indy 500, 110 years of Pikes Peak, 60 years of Can-Am, 60 years of Trans-Am and 20 years since Jimmie Johnson’s first Cup Series title. The display will include machinery from IndyCar, NASCAR, Can-Am, Trans-Am, IMSA and Formula 1, with guests including Aaron Shelby, Al Unser Junior, Dario Franchitti, Emerson Fittipaldi, Travis Pastrana, Freddie Spencer, Kenny Roberts, Kenny Roberts Jr and Kevin Schwantz.
Away from the Hill, the Cartier Style et Luxe concours at the Festival of Speed 2026 will feature seven classes, including: Spezial K – Mercedes-Benz Super Stars; Need for Swede – Koenigsegg’s Hypercar Revolution; No More Horse Play – Dawn of the Motor Car; The Long Fork to Freedom – American Choppers; Top Ghia – The Carrozzeria’s Golden Age; Miura Miura On The Wall – The Fairest of Them All; and Track & Field – Sports Cars Born to Race and Rally.
The Forest Rally Stage presented by Subaru will again bring rally machinery into Goodwood’s woodland, with modern WRC cars and classics such as the Lancia Delta Integrale and Audi Quattro expected to run on loose surfaces.
Meanwhile, the Goodwood Action Sports arena will feature motocross, BMX and mountain-bike displays, while the Off-Road Arena will add further action away from the main Hill. Two Subaru rally cars will also be displayed in the Forest Rally Stage paddock: the 2001 Subaru Impreza X20 SRT used by Richard Burns and Robert Reid during their 2001 FIA World Rally Championship title-winning season, and the 1992 Subaru Legacy RS Group N, registration G330 TUE, in which Burns won his first championship title with Subaru.
FOS Future Lab presented by Randox will return with technology exhibits covering robotics, AI, quantum computing, space travel, underwater habitation and future health diagnostics. Astronaut Tim Peake returns as Future Lab ambassador, while exhibitors will include the European Space Agency, the National Quantum Computing Centre, IBM, Formula E, Pulsar Fusion, DEEP, Sony Europe, Touchlab, EMOTIV and Factum Foundation. Themes for 2026 include Unseen Worlds, Intelligent Systems, New Frontiers and Extending Reality, with more than 1000 students expected to take part in Goodwood’s STEM programme.
Formula E will also make its Festival of Speed debut through Future Lab, showing all four generations of its electric race cars and unveiling the new GEN4 car. Mission 44, founded by Sir Lewis Hamilton, will be the official charity partner, using the event to support its work with young people, STEM education and motor sport access.
Manufacturers have also set up a whirlwind selection of launches and special displays at Festival of Speed 2026. Alpine will show the all-electric A110 development mule (pictured above), while Aston Martin will run its DB12 S, Vantage S and DBX S. Cupra will make its first Festival appearance and reveal two new models, while BYD’s premium brand Denza will make its UK launch with the B5, D9 and Z9GT. The Yangwang U9 Xtreme will make its European debut after recording a claimed 308mph top speed.
Ferrari will also have one of the most substantial manufacturer presences at the Festival of Speed 2026, combining new road-car debuts, Formula 1 heritage and a celebration of its XX client programme. Three models will make Goodwood dynamic debuts on the Hill: the front-mid-engined V8 Ferrari Amalfi, the 880cv 296 Speciale A plug-in hybrid spider and the 849 Testarossa, Ferrari’s new range-topping plug-in hybrid berlinetta, whose twin-turbo V8 and three electric motors produce a combined 1050cv. The F80 and 12Cilindri will also return to the Supercar Run.
The Festival will mark 20 years of the Ferrari XX Programme, launched in 2005 with the FXX as a client-led development programme outside normal racing regulations. An FXX and FXX-K Evo will run on the Hill in a special commemorative livery, representing a programme that later expanded through the 599XX, 599XX Evo, FXX-K and FXX-K Evo. Ferrari will also enter the 296 Challenge in the timed runs, with Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli UK driver Manuela Gostner aiming to better Andrew Morrow’s 2024 Ferrari Challenge benchmark of seventh overall in the Shoot-Out with a 50.02-second run.
On Laundry Green, Ferrari will show the latest production range, including public display debuts for the Amalfi Spider, 849 Testarossa Spider and Purosangue Handling Speciale, alongside the 296 Speciale and 12Cilindri Spider. VIP guests will also be able to view the Ferrari Luce in a private hospitality area, giving the marque a static presence to match its activity on the Hill.
Ferrari will support Goodwood’s tribute to 75 years since Scuderia Ferrari’s first World Championship Grand Prix victory at Silverstone in 1951. Corse Clienti will bring six Formula 1 cars, including the F300, F1-2000, F2007, two F2008s and SF21. The track-only 499P Modificata will also return across a notably wide Goodwood programme of road cars and racing machinery.
Rolls-Royce will use the Festival of Speed 2026 to unveil Phantom Regatta, a one-of-one Phantom Extended commission inspired by the racing yachts of the English South Coast and the summer regattas contested on the Solent, including Cowes Week. The theme also carries a local connection. The Solent and Chichester Harbour are visible from the Goodwood Estate, while Sir Henry Royce’s former home, Elmstead, stands at West Wittering, eight miles from the marque’s present-day headquarters.
The exterior is finished in Regatta Blue over English White, a hand-laid two-tone treatment intended to evoke the point where a yacht’s hull meets the water. The car sits on 22-inch fully polished disc wheels whose surfaces reference the polished-steel winches of a racing yacht. Inside, the colour scheme continues the sailing theme, with Navy Blue leather in the front and Grace White in the rear to suggest deep water, white canvas and wake. Turchese embroidery is used for the RR monograms, while the veneer combines Piano Milori with Open Pore Royal Walnut. The picnic tables alone required around 120 hours of work. Each is made from 16 Royal Walnut strips, laid by hand from the centre outwards with a two-millimetre Black Bolivar strip between them to recall deck caulking. The cabin’s main artwork is Watercolour, a hand-painted Gallery panel running across the full width of the fascia.
Rolls-Royce says its in-house artist developed a new blending technique over two weeks to capture the movement of waves on open water. Above it, a Bespoke Starlight Headliner uses 1307 hand-placed fibre-optic stars in a pattern inspired by tidal currents around the Isle of Wight. The car also hides engraved coordinates in its air vents, marking Goodwood House on the passenger side and the Home of Rolls-Royce on the driver’s side.
Praga will also use the Festival of Speed 2026 to showcase the Bohema, its road-legal, all-carbon track-focused supercar, with dynamic hill runs by ambassador and test driver Ben Collins. The Czech manufacturer will be based next to the Supercar Paddock with a display built around what it calls its “hyper-engineering” approach, highlighting the development process behind a car that weighs less than 1000kg, produces 700bhp and has already set multiple production-car lap records.
Two Bohemas will be displayed at Goodwood. One is a purple-carbon customer car to be handed over immediately before the Festival, while the other is finished in black carbon with orange detailing and a lion motif from the Czech coat of arms. Alongside them, Praga will show five engineering exhibits covering the car’s steering wheel, overhead control interface, pedal box, headlamps and engine decklid. The removable, F1-inspired steering wheel has been refined over three years and incorporates shift paddles, an electronic clutch lever, LED shift lights, a data display and controls for drive modes, lighting and wipers.
The aerospace-style ‘Enterprise’ overhead control panel uses anodised aluminium and carbonfibre controls, placing ignition, start-stop, vehicle menus, door releases and system information within easy reach. Praga will also show the Bohema’s adjustable EN AW 7075-T6 pedal box, which works with the seat and steering column to tailor the driving position. The headlamp exhibit will demonstrate the car’s exposed CNC-machined lighting structures, while the 2.5kg five-axis-machined engine decklid will show how its hinge mechanism clears the fixed rear wing while opening.
Bentley will return to the Festival of Speed with its largest presence yet, bringing more than 35 cars to Goodwood and using the event for several UK and dynamic debuts. Two generations of Supersports will run on the Hill, linking the new 2026 Supersports with the original 1926 Super Sports known as Smoky. The earlier car, one of only 18 built, raced more than 40 times at Brooklands in the 1930s and will appear as part of Goodwood’s 100 years of Supersports celebration.
The new Supersports will make its UK dynamic debut in Bentley’s own Supersports: FULL SEND car, the same car driven by Travis Pastrana in the Pymkhana film around the Bentley campus (pictured above). It will be displayed in the Supercar Paddock alongside a Continental GTC Speed and the new Continental GT S, which now produces 680PS and 930Nm from Bentley’s High Performance Hybrid powertrain. The First Glance paddock will feature the Bentayga EWB Artenara and new Flying Spur S, both of which will run up the Hill.
Bentley’s two-storey stand, located diagonally opposite Goodwood House at the Festival of Speed 2026, will also showcase Mulliner’s latest paintwork. The new Design Theme by Mulliner will make its Festival debut on the Supersports, introducing the first side-to-side exterior paint fade ever applied to a Bentley. The driver’s side is defined by a bold highlight colour that blends across the body into a darker tone, while an off-centre stripe runs from front to rear. Three specifications are available: Dragon, Electric and Brodgar. The theme continues inside the two-seat Supersports, with the brighter colour surrounding the driver and the darker tone reserved for the passenger.
It will appear alongside two further Ombré by Mulliner cars, including a Continental GTC S and Bentayga Speed, each demonstrating Crewe’s new paint shop and its 56-hour hand-applied gradient finishes.
BMW will use the Festival of Speed 2026 to mark 40 years of the M3, with a full-generation parade on Thursday and a display pairing the original E30 homologation special with limited-run E92 M3 GTS. The celebration extends to the Hill, where the BMW M2 fitted with the new M Performance Track Kit will run alongside the M3 Touring 24H, fresh from its SPX class win and fourth place overall at the Nürburgring 24 Hours, driven by BMW M Motorsport’s Kelvin van der Linde.
The UK debut of the BMW M Concept Neue Klasse will provide the clearest look at the future of M. First shown at the 2026 Le Mans 24 Hours, the concept previews a new M design language and uses BMW M eDrive with four electric motors and M Dynamic Performance Control. BMW’s stand, entitled The Home of the Ultimate Driving Machine, will also include the iX5, seventh-generation 7 Series, iX3 and new i3 50 xDrive. BMW Group Classic will bring the restored 1986 Benetton B186, marking BMW’s final turbo-era F1 victory, plus the M3 GTR E46, M3 DTM E92, McLaren F1 GTR and M3 Alpina E30.
Elsewhere, Gordon Murray Automotive will bring the production-spec T.50s Niki Lauda, T.33 Spider VP12, S1 LM and Le Mans GTR XP1 (more details on that here), while Honda will show the Prelude HRC Concept and Super-N. Renault will demonstrate the 5 Turbo 3E and show the 4 E-Tech Electric Plein Sud and Twingo E-Tech electric, while Subaru will bring the E-Outback and Uncharted to the Forest Rally Stage area. Toyota and Lexus will show the GR GT, GR GT3, GR Yaris Aero Performance, RAV4 GR Sport and LFA Concept, with MG and Lepas also among the brands adding to the ‘first glance’ and manufacturer displays.
TAG Heuer will mark its second year as Official Timing Partner with a 500-piece Formula 1 Chronograph x Goodwood Festival of Speed limited edition. The watch carries a green dial and bezel inspired by the Goodwood Estate, red accents and a 39-second marker referencing Max Chilton’s 39.08-second hillclimb record in the McMurtry Spéirling.
Limited Thursday tickets for Festival of Speed 2026 remain available here.
