Honda at Goodwood: Win tickets


By Phil Huff
June 18 2005

Three sons of famous racing dads will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Honda's first Formula One win, at the 2005 Goodwood Festival of Speed, on 24-26 June, and we've got a pair of tickets to give away. Nelson Angelo Piquet (son of triple F1 champion Nelson Piquet), Jeff Bucknum (son of Honda's first F1 driver Ronnie Bucknum) and David Hailwood (son of 'Mike the Bike' Hailwood), will all perform at this year's Festival of Speed. They will join World Champions, Tourist Trophy and Indy Car winners - and GP stars past, present and future - in the greatest ever showing of Honda powered racers in Britain.

The young guns will drive their fathers' machines, with Piquet in the 1986 Championship winning Williams Honda FW11, Jeff Bucknum in Ronnie Bucknum's 1965 Honda RA 272 and David Hailwood riding his father's 1967 Dutch TT winning RC181.

Honda will field more cars and bikes than ever in this, the seventh, year it has participated at Goodwood. Aside from the ones just mentioned, the list includes John Surtees' 1967 Italian GP winning RA300, the 1988 Championship-winning McLaren Honda MP4/4 and the F2 Brabham BT Honda, which took 11 consecutive wins during 1966.

From the present era, Jenson Button and Takuma Sato will be demonstrating the latest BAR Honda 007 Grand Prix car. Matt Neal and Tom Chilton will respectively be putting their BTCC winning Honda Integra and Civic Type-R racers through their paces. And finally current BAR Honda test driver Anthony Davidson and double CART World Champion (now BAR Honda's Sporting Director) Gil de Ferran will drive the twin-turbo NSX GT, which races in this year's Japanese GT Championship.

Honda will also command the prestigious central display area. For the first time this will be a moving spectacle featuring no fewer than six full size Honda-powered F1 cars. Mounted on giant arms, the sextet of cars will be 'moving in the breeze' giving a spectacular visual treat to crown this highlight of the motoring year. Not to be overshadowed, no less than 20 key motorcycles from Honda's history will surround the central drive in front of Goodwood House.

We've got a pair of tickets for the opening day of the show, worth £40, to give away. If you can get to Goodwood on Friday 24 June (so not far away!) then answer this simple question...

Who scored Honda's first F1 Grand Prix win?


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* Entry conditions: All fields of the entry form must be filled in to be considered a valid entry. Only UK addresses will be eligible to win. Entries must be received by 2pm Wednesday 22 June. The winner will be chosen at random from the correct entries. The tickets will be sent to the address given by the winner by Royal Mail Special Delivery, with delivery guaranteed for the morning of Thursday 23 June. Once the competition is over, all entry forms will be discarded. Good luck!

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