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By: Geoff Creighton

Summary

Status: Stopped
Now its the turn of the motorcycles, including the sidecars and Dunlop collection.
The Mercedes Benz W25 resumes this final 2017 FoS run.
The pre-war GP cars, Brooklands Legacy cars and classic motorcycles have rumbled through the paddock and will be out shortly.
 
 
Harry Tincknell, Ford GT driver in the latest run and Chip Ganassi WEC racer: "I was pushing, I was pushing. Your confidence builds up as the weekend goes on. I wanted to show what it could do for the fans. It's an absolutely incredible opportunity to be part of and it's the first time I've actually driven the road car. In all honesty it doesn't feel like a road car, it feels like the #67 I drove last week at Le Mans."
The new Audi RS5 completes the supercar run for the Goodwood FoS. In a few minutes we go back to where it all began: Pre-war GP cars and the Brooklands record-attempting beasts.
 
Burnout for a Mercedes-Benz AMG Black Series.  
Damon Hill takes a passenger for a ride in the Noble M600 Speedster.  
Wonderful-sounding supercars now on the Hill. Ferrari GT driver Sam Bird is in the screaming FXX Evo, followed by a FXX K - yours for just $2.5m...
 
 
Don't go anywhere after the excitement of the shoot out, there's still two batches to run up the hill, starting with supercars, race cars for the road, and first glance.
Massive effort by Mike Skinner who records 49.02s in the Toyota Tundra NASCAR truck.
James Grint. Photo: LAT  
Tremendous effort by James Grint, taking the Mitsubish Mirage RX up in 49.82s.
Photo: LAT.
49.67s for Paul Dallenbach in his PVA Special. 
Mighty 50.98s for Pat Doran in his Ford RS200, but he can't claim top spot.
The central feature at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, celebrating Bernie Ecclestone. Photo: LAT. 
Current shoot out leader Thomas Ferrando, in a Ford Mustang styled Euro NASCAR RC-01. Photo: LAT. 
Oh dear. Ed Berrier goes off in strange fashion at the first corner, possibly with a failure. The Chevrolet SS won't be going any further.
Thomas Ferrando will not be beaten by his Euro NASCAR competitor. He goes up 0.02s faster than Galpin!
Euro NASCAR joined the Festival this year, and Jerome Galpin takes the RC-01 up 0.09s faster to lead!
The thundering Lola-Chevrolet T70 Spyder which won the inaugural Can-Am championship goes fastest in the hands of Mike Whitaker, with a time of 54,65s, taking two seconds off his qualifying time!
David Franklin breaks below the 60s mark, as he powers to a 57.92s in one of only 12 Ferrari 275 GTB/C models.
At a pace which belies its age, the Bugatti Type 35B flies up the Hill in the hands of Julian Majzub. It was built in 1927, and goes fastest with 61.29s!
Max Viessman takes the lead with 64.53s in the ex-Juan Manuel Fangio Ferrari 166.
No one has troubled Ricketts' time yet, but the fast cars will come out last...
You'd think a Mercedes-Benz W125 is a priceless piece of machinery, but Martin Viessman has his entered in the shoot out and he crosses the line in 70.99s.
Autosport Live spoke to Nick Heidfeld about his record-run earlier this weekend. He said "It was not a dry weekend, so it was the first time I was on a fully try track. On the previous run Bernd Mylander was quicker than us in a Group C or something. We said ‘no this cannot happen’ so we had to beat them but didn’t realise it would get that quick. We didn’t do anything crazy on the car, we used tyre heaters, lifted the car, changed the camber a bit. We looked after it, but nowhere near what you’d normally do."
Nico Rosberg showers fans with dirt and mud as he performs a doughnut. Photo: LAT. 
Starting shortly is the shoot out final. Nick Heidfeld (Mahindra M4Electro), Mark Higgins (Subaru WRX STI), Justin Law (Jaguar XJR12D), and Jeremy Smith (Penske-Chevrolet PC22) have been the fastest runners so far this weekend. No guessing who'll come out on top this afternoon though.
We're well into the Ferrari celebration class. The Lancia-Ferrari D50A featured innovative design, including pannier fuel tanks which helped weight distribution. The example demonstrated on the Hill is from 1956.
"Take it easy," says Webber and three cheers end the 'Bernie Ecclestone Moment'. "Don't forget Lord March, as without this this wouldn't happen," concludes Ecclestone.
This is an incredibly cheeky interview from Mark Webber. Ecclestone has been stoic and deadpan with a healthy amount of dry wit thrown in, in response. A loud cheer erupts as he exits the balcony. Lord March then proposes a toast to Bernie.
"Who was the hardest person to do business with?" asks Webber. "I think everybody's been nice and very easy to deal with..." replies Ecclestone to laughter from the crowd below.
The BT46B Brabham fan car, unprecedentedly, has just run up the hill. There is an incredible noise resonating across the festival right now as grand prix machines involved in Bernie's F1 tenure scream and sing. Robert Kubica comes past in the Renault E20 followed by Pierre Gasly in the Red Bull RB7.
The cars come out with a parade of F1 machines led by Lord March and Bernie Ecclestone.
Of course, Robert Kubica also had an incredible reception when he returned from his run. There was a crowd of Polish fans holding up a banner while a gaggle of spectators started chanting his name outside the Renault F1 paddock.

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