Friday 26th June 2015

Cycling the Goodwood Hill: Time For Tea?

We'll see plenty of cars on the hill this weekend - here it is from a pedal-powered perspective

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Full disclosure from the off - this is not a gritty, second-by-second video of pedalling down the Goodwood hill. Maserati is far too stylish for something so raw.

Instead we have David Millar driving a Ghibli Diesel up the hill and riding a Factor Vis Vires down it, all chopped together with some fancy editing. One review describes the bike as "very fast, very stiff and very expensive"; from here it's beautiful enough to make the Maserati look a little dumpy. It certainly lives up to the fast billing, Millar hitting 50mph down the hill.

Obviously Maserati didn't do anything so vulgar as actually time the runs but seeing something without an engine head down Goodwood so fast is damn impressive. Perhaps not as impressive as the soapbox racers but cool nonetheless! Non-Goodwood videos to resume next week...

Watch the video here.

 

[SteveSteveson]

Nice car and nice video. Is that the real engine note? It sounds too nice...

Not sure what the point in the video was though, but stylish non the less. Kind of like a Mazzer then.

[WokkaWokka]

SteveSteveson said:

Nice car and nice video. Is that the real engine note? It sounds too nice...

Not sure what the point in the video was though, but stylish non the less. Kind of like a Mazzer then.

I'd love it if that was the sound but somehow I don't think it is. I watched Harry's garage in you tube and he said the petrol was great but the diesel was well very dieselly!

[oldtimer2]

PR plagiarism - of what JLR has already done much better with Team Sky.

[WarrenG]

My local Hills are either side of that - New Barn Hill and Kennel Hill. Lots of Strava activity both up and down those. The one in the middle is for the privileged.
Of course Maserati forgot a golden rule - you have to earn your fun going down by riding up them, but I guess Millar has done his fair share of that.