Romain Dumas wins a third straight Goodwood shootout, with EVs on top
Electric cars set the pace on the hill
Electric cars locked out the top two times at the 2026 Goodwood Festival of Speed timed shootout. Romain Dumas took the win in Ford's Super Mustang Mach-E with a 41.98-second run up the hill, the fastest time of the weekend and his third shootout victory in a row.
Here are the three fastest cars of the entire weekend, and the run that still beats them all.
1. Ford Super Mustang Mach-E: 41.98 seconds
Romain Dumas set the weekend's benchmark in Ford's Super Mustang Mach-E, a purpose-built electric hillclimb prototype. His 41.98-second run was enough to win the shootout for the third year running, underlining how well suited instant electric torque is to a short, steep sprint like the Goodwood Hill.
2. Formula E Gen4: 42.46 seconds
Dan Ticktum kept it close in a Formula E Gen4 single-seater, stopping the clocks at 42.46 seconds, less than half a second behind Dumas. That result made it the first time both of the top two positions at the shootout went to electric machinery, a small but telling milestone for Goodwood.
3. Shadow-Chevrolet DN4: 46.31 seconds
The fastest combustion-engined car of the weekend was a piece of history. Alex Summers drove the 1974 Shadow-Chevrolet DN4, a monstrous Can-Am car, to 46.31 seconds and third overall. That left it 3.85 seconds behind the leading Mustang Mach-E, the gap that tells the story of how quickly the electric prototypes have moved the game on.
The record that still stands
For all the speed, this was the fastest time of the weekend rather than the outright Goodwood Hill record. That mark still belongs to Max Chilton, who climbed the hill in 39.08 seconds in the McMurtry Speirling fan car back in 2022. Dumas and the Super Mustang Mach-E were quick, but the fan car's downforce trick remains in a league of its own.
AutoNext Take
The headline is not just that an electric car won, it is that electric cars took the two fastest times of the weekend and made it look normal. On a hill this short and steep, instant torque and traction are worth more than noise and cylinders, and the 3.85-second gap back to a legendary Can-Am car makes the point without needing a single word.
What we like is that Goodwood still frames all of this as entertainment rather than a spec war. A modern electric prototype, a Formula E single-seater and a 1974 monster sharing the same podium is exactly why the timed shootout is worth watching. And with Chilton's 39.08 still out of reach, there is a very clear target left for someone to chase. Over to you, Goodwood.
