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A pickup truck beating supercars feels like a plot twist from another dimension, but at the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed, Ford’s F-150 Lightning SuperTruck made it happen. Romain Dumas drove this electric beast up the 1.16-mile hillclimb in 43.22 seconds and took the Timed Shoot-Out crown.
The SuperTruck looks like an F-150 but it’s a whole different animal. Three electric motors produce 1,400 horsepower – enough to power a small neighborhood – and the sleek bodywork creates 6,000 pounds of downforce at 150 mph. It’s got grip like a Formula 1 car. Built from the F-150 Lightning framework, this one-off prototype was built to dominate. Its win at Pikes Peak in 2024 showed what it could do, but Goodwood’s tight, twisty course was a whole new challenge.
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Romain Dumas, a two-time Le Mans champion and hillclimb expert, drove the SuperTruck with precision. “It was quite good,” he said in an X post. “Thank you everyone for the support and the organization for making it such a great event!” His 43.22-second run was 2 seconds quicker than the second-place Subaru WRX Project Midnight which ran 45.03 seconds. He also beat his 2024 Goodwood time in the Ford SuperVan 4.2 by 0.77 seconds.
Goodwood’s hillclimb is a 1.16-mile strip of pavement through the Duke of Richmond’s estate. It’s a test of speed and skill. Narrow, bordered by hay bales and full of tricky turns like Molecomb, it requires both power and precision. The SuperTruck’s electric motors howled through the scenic backdrop and made it a blur. Ford Performance celebrated on social media, “The Ford F-150 Lightning SuperTruck just completed the Goodwood Hill Climb in 43.22 seconds, its second Timed Shootout title in a row.”The SuperTruck didn’t quite break the record, set by the McMurtry Spéirling at 39.08 seconds in 2022. Dumas told CAR Magazine, “I would have liked to go below 43 seconds,” so there’s more to come. Still 43.22 seconds is the 4th fastest time ever at Goodwood, not bad for a truck.
Ford’s win wasn’t just about speed, it was about legacy. The SuperTruck follows in the footsteps of Ford’s high-performance vans, back to the original Transit Supervan. This year Ford celebrated 60 years of the Transit at Goodwood and the SuperTruck stole the show. It wasn’t an accident, it was the result of bold engineering and a driver who can handle a beast. As Ford Performance took home another trophy they proved electric power can rule, even in a pickup.
