Mercedes-Benz Goodwood festival of speed sculpture

Wow, isn't this brilliant? Such a simple concept. Sculptor Gerry Judah created this talking point at the Goodwood festival of speed. The two Mercedes-Benz cars appear to race 26 metres over Goodwood House in this 160 tonne steel sculpture - 90 metres long! 

The sculpture celebrates Mercedes-Benz who have been motoring through three centuries, starting in 1894. It features two race cars, passing in different directions. The modern car being the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team F1 Wo4. This car has raced in no less than 15 Grands Prix in 2013 by driver Lewis Hamilton. The vintage model is the 1934 Mercedes-Benz W2, it won the Nürburgring Nordschleife on its first outing. 

The shape of the sculpture echoes the silver arrows and reminds me of playing Scalextric with my brothers, we had great fun creating epic crashes and taking over mum's living room.

Photographs are by David Barbour, originally spotted on Moco.