Same Car, Different Hill: Dumas Turns Goodwood Into Pikes Peak Round Two

The preview two Mondays ago called Goodwood 2026 a heritage weekend, and it delivered on that promise. All three surviving Ford GT Mk IIs from the 1966 Le Mans 1-2-3, chassis P/1046, P/1015 and P/1016, ran together on the Hill for the first time in a decade. Damon Hill took the balcony on Saturday July 11 to mark 30 years since his 1996 title. Cartier Style et Luxe handed out its Concours awards on Sunday morning. But by mid-afternoon on July 12, 2026, the story had quietly become something else: the same Ford Super Mustang Mach-E that Romain Dumas drove to victory at Pikes Peak on June 21 had just won the Timed Shoot-Out too.

Going in, the pole storyline was Dan Ticktum in the newly launched Formula E Gen4. He was fast all weekend and set the pace early in the Shoot-Out at 42.46 seconds. It was a serious target: quick enough to demote everyone but Dumas, and even Dumas had been visibly working the Mach-E hard in Saturday qualifying at 42.99. The rest of the shortlist was a reminder of how deep the Festival's guest list is: Alex Summers in the historic Shadow DN4, Johan Kristoffersson in a Volkswagen Polo WRX, Jordan Pepper in a BMW M3 Touring 24H, Travis Pastrana in the Subaru "Brataroo," Ryan Tuerck in the Toyota-Judd Formula Supra.

Dumas went last. He crossed the line in 41.97 seconds. That is his fifth career Timed Shoot-Out win, third in a row, and it makes the Mach-E the first car to bag Pikes Peak and Goodwood in the same season since the Volkswagen ID.R in 2019. The all-time outright record, Max Chilton's 39.081 in the McMurtry Speirling from 2022, still stands by 2.89 seconds, but Chilton had 2,000 kg of fan-generated downforce and no crosswind to answer to. Dumas beat weather that was warm and slightly gusty through Molecomb, on a surface that had been chewed by 200,000-plus visitors' worth of noise and heat across four days.

As someone in the coatings and film world, watching a single carbon-fibre bodyshell take repeated launch-mode runs at Pikes Peak in dust, then load and unload thermally through Molecomb three weeks later, is a reminder that "protection" on a working race car is less about vanity and more about not chasing chips through a paddock at midnight.

Box score: 1) Romain Dumas, Ford Super Mustang Mach-E, 41.97; 2) Dan Ticktum, Formula E Gen4, 42.46; 3) Alex Summers, Shadow DN4, 46.30. Outright record: still 39.081, Chilton, McMurtry Speirling, 2022.

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