Dumas wins third straight Festival of Speed Shootout

Romain Dumas claimed a third straight Goodwood Festival of Speed Shootout win, defeating Dan Ticktum in the competition on Sunday.

Dumas, driving the electric Ford Super Mustang Mach-E, was last to take to the course after topping Saturday qualifying and broke the 42 second barrier with a 41.98s run. Ticktum ran just before him in a prototype of the new GEN4 Formula E car, and went quickest at the time, but dust on the track and a moment at Mulcombe left him just short of a chance at beating Dumas. He ended up just 0.48s off the Frenchman.

Alex Summers was third, and the fastest combustion entrant (as well as the only competitor in the Sports Racers 1966-82 class), setting a 46.31s time in his Shadow-Chevrolet DN4, beating the favored Johan Kristoffersson.

Kristoffersson, appearing at the Festival of Speed for the first time, was competing in a similar Volkswagen Polo to the one he's running in the European Rallycross Championship this year and set a 46.32s to take fourth as well as Modified class honors. The time just edged Travis Pastrana in the Subaru Brataroo 9500 by 0.45s, winning him a dollar off Pastrana after a pre-race bet.

The pair, though, were ultimately split in the final standings by Jordan Pepper in the BMW M3 Touring 24H, who set a 43.55s to top the Contemporary GTs class.

After setting the pace early on, 2024 British Touring Car champion Jake Hill ended up seventh in the Nissan 300 ZX Turbo IMSA racer, ahead of Florent Moulin in a Dodge Viper GTS-R. Bith topped their respective classes, Specials and GTs 1994-2009

Callum Voisin managed to finish in the top 10 and second in the Contemporary GTs class in a Porsche 992.2 Cup despite an excursion into the grass at the first turn, with Formula DRIFT star Ryan Tuerck completing that top 10 in the wild "Formula Supra" – a Toyota Supra powered by a Judd V10 usually found in historic Formula 1 cars.

Scott Speed was among the other class winners, going quickest in the Production Road Cars (Non-Electric) group in the Gunther WerKs F26,

Dry and dusty conditions left the course lacking grip in many places. Despite that, there was only one incident in the timed competition when Johnny Cecotto went into the hay bales at Mulcombe after locking the rear wheels in the BMW M3 DTM car he was competing in.

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Dominik Wilde

Dominik often jokes that he was born in the wrong country – a lover of NASCAR and IndyCar, he covered both in a past life as a junior at Autosport in the UK, but he’s spent most of his career to date covering the sliding and flying antics of the U.S.’ interpretation of rallycross. Rather fitting for a man that says he likes “seeing cars do what they’re not supposed to do”, previously worked for a car stunt show, and once even rolled a rally car with Travis Pastrana. He was also comprehensively beaten in a kart race by Sebastien Loeb once, but who hasn’t been?

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