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GOODWOOD FESTIVAL OF SPEED

have passed since Lord March – now the Duke of Richmond – hosted the first Festival of Speed in the grounds of Goodwood House. That inaugural single-day event was a relatively informal occasion and evoked the hillclimbs that the Duke’s grandfather, Freddie March, had organised before the Second World War,

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