2026 hits fast.
Goodwood Festival of Speed runs from July 9 to 12. It’s here, and the stakes are high. This isn’t just another year on the calendar. It’s a bumper crop. Some of the loudest names in motorsport dropped their best work into West Sussex.
You want a look? Look here.
The Toyota GR GT arrived. The Alpine A110 Future rolled up, all test mule grime and electric promise. Gordon Murray showed up with his dramatic S1 LM. These aren’t press releases. They’re metal. They’re here to drive, or at least to intimidate.
The Alpine A110 Future is less a car and more a warning: the electric sports car isn’t dead.
The new Alpine A110
It wears a disguise. Sort of. The bodywork mimics the old petrol model, but look lower. Wide arches. Bulging hips. Underneath sits a new platform, built specifically for electrons, not combustion.
It’s a reinvention. A peek at what’s coming. The next A110 will go electric. This one is the proof of concept, rough edges and all. You don’t judge a prototype on polish. You judge it on intent. The intent here is clear. Keep the soul, change the heart.
Audi goes Nuvolari
Audi has a flagship. It’s called the Nuvolari, and it screams. 987 brake horsepower. Hybrid, but not the gentle kind. Twin-turbo V8 meets three electric motors. It pulls aerodynamics that move when the car moves. Active stuff. Real engineering.
They’re only building 499. Exclusive by design, desperate by price. This car sets the tone for the brand’s future. Everything else Audi sells will look like it took cues from this one. Sharper. Meaner.
Old school Auto Union
Confusing name? Probably. This car shouldn’t be here among the new kids. Technically it is brand new. Audi Tradition built it. They built it to recreate a racer from Auto Union’s past. 1935 past.
Back then, it was the fastest road car in the world. 203mph. That was near Lucca in Italy, on an actual road. Sure, Campbell-Railton’s Blue Bird did 301mph, but that was salt flats. This was pavement. V16 engine. Slice of history, freshly forged.
Bentley changes face
The Flying Spur got a haircut. The quad-headlight look? Gone. Replaced by two lights. Cleaner. Simpler. The S variant is back, and it bites.
4.0-litre twin-turbo V8. Single electric motor helping out. Total output? 671 horsepower. It’s a luxury limousine that forgot to be subtle.
Bentley Supersports
Frank-Steffen Walliser wants “extreme” cars. So here it is. The Supersports. It’s a Continental GT, but stripped, focused, angry.
First rear-wheel drive Continental in decades. No hybrid battery weighing it down. Just a 657hp twin-turbo V8 doing the work alone. Under 2000kg. That’s light for Bentley. The last time one was this light? 1940.
Is that fast enough? For Bentley, probably not. For the rest of us? It’s plenty.
The festival moves fast. You blink and a hypercar disappears behind the hill.
