Ford Supertruck Crowned King Of The Hill At 2025 Goodwood Festival Of Speed

The 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed has officially wrapped up, giving us a one-of-a-kind look at the high-profile debuts that only this annual event can offer. However, the festivities aren’t limited to new cars; the four-day activity that populated your news feed the past several days was also home to the Goodwood Hillclimb Shootout, which, for this year, was dominated from start to finish by the Ford Supertruck. But while it may look loosely like a special F-150 Lightning, it’s really a purpose-built electric monster sharing almost nothing with the production pickup truck.

At the end of the timed Hillclimb Shootout, the 1,400-horsepower Ford Supertruck registered a 43.22-second run up the 1.17-mile hill, enough for Ford to clinch the King of the Hill crown for the second consecutive year. Unsurprisingly, Romain Dumas was the one behind the tiller of the record-setting run – the same driver who won last year’s Hillclimb Shootout with the Ford SuperVan.

The Fourth Fastest All-Time Run

As mentioned, the Ford SuperTruck is specially built for these types of runs. Apart from the immense power that the electric truck generates, those massive aero bits (including that gargantuan rear wing) also produce 6,000 lbs of downforce at 150 mph. They’re more than enough to keep the “truck” glued to the ground for gut-wrenchingly quick lap times.

The Ford Supertruck may be the fastest in this year’s tally, but it’s only the fourth fastest ever. Leading the list of Goodwood Hillclimb Shootout all-time fastest laps is the McMurtry Spéirling, which completed the run in 39.08 seconds in 2022. The Volkswagen ID. R follows as the second-fastest at 42.32 seconds in 2019, also with Dumas at the helm. The third-fastest is the Gould-Cosworth GR51, which recorded a 42.90-second run in 2003.

Not The Fastest Among The Cars You Can Buy

Unfortunately, the Ford Supertruck isn’t a typical F-150 Lightning that you can purchase and drive right out of a dealership. It belongs in the Modified Specials class, which, as you can see, doesn’t limit automakers from modifying their entries for the annual hill climb event.

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For the quickest hill climb racer you can actually buy, that would be the Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear, which set this year’s record for the fastest run for a Production Road Cars. The hotted-up Koenigsegg Jesko evolution ran up the hill in 47.14 seconds, under 4 seconds off the purpose-built SuperTruck. The Sadair’s Spear beat the Czinger 21C’s record last year by over a second. If you have $5 million lying around, maybe you could buy one for your garage, but that would be a long shot since each of the 30 examples to be made has already been accounted for.