FROM the bold to the beautiful to the downright outrageous, Renault's racing heritage makes its first major public display at the Goodwood Festival of Speed over the weekend of Friday, June 18, until Sunday, June 20.

Four mouth-watering pieces from the Renault collection will be making the climb up Goodward's historic hill, thanks to the efforts of Patrick Landon, previously the manufacturer's head of rallying, and his team.

Together they have not just readied the cars for display, but also made sure that each one again runs as quickly and smoothly as it did in its heyday, chattering turbos and all.

Patrick Tambay, 'Prince Charming' himself, will be reunited with his 1985 Formula One car, the flame-spitting Renault RE60, with an estimated 150bhp in qualifying form - one of the most powerful cars ever seen in Grand Prix racing history.

Goodwood will also mark another Renault reunion, when Jean-Pierre Jaussaud climbs aboard the car which made him a national hero, the 1978 Le Mans 24 hour-winning Alpine A442B, a hit with the Goodwood crowds when it last appeared here in 1996, driven by then Renault British Touring Car Championship racer Will Hoy.

The flamboyant Rene Arnoux, who won four Grand Prix with Renault between 1979 and 1982, will hustle Renault's first ever Grand Prix car, the pioneering 1977 turbo-charged RS01, to the summit of the Goodwood hill course.

At a slightly more leisurely, but no less eye-popping pace, rally legend Jean Ragnotti will be entrusted with one of Renault's first ever race cars, the 1902 Type K. The car at Goodwood was driven to victory in the 1902 Paris-Vienna race by Marcel Renault himself a year before his death.

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