Works driver Dani Sordo records fastest Forest Rally Stage timeLaps of 1.16-mile Forest Rally Stage run against the clock for the first time

At the same time, the Hyundai Shell World Rally Team has taken its second podium of its rookie WRC season with Thierry Neuville finishing in third place in Poland

All three cars finished in a competitive WRC event as Juho Hanninen and Hayden Paddon also completed four-day event in top eight.

Hyundai Motorsport i20 World Rally Championship driver, Dani Sordo, has clinched the fastest recorded laps around the Goodwood Festival of Speed’s 1.16-mile Forest Rally Stage, achieving a best aggregate time of 7 minutes 49 seconds in total over three runs.

For the first time since its inception in 2005, runs were timed against the clock around the Forest Rally Stage, with a prize awarded to the quickest driver over three aggregated runs. Successfully debuting the Hyundai i20 WRC in the UK, Sordo completed a ‘shoot out’ run against the clock each day, with VIP guests and journalists sat alongside him as co-driver.

With the rest of the Hyundai WRC team in Poland competing in the seventh round of the 2014 championship, Sordo steered the 300bhp i20 WRC to a spectacular victory on Goodwood’s Forest Rally Stage with a best aggregate time of 7 minutes 49 seconds over three runs. Every day, over the three-day period, Sordo’s shoot out time was the fastest.

Sordo commented: “It was a great privilege for me to show what the Hyundai i20 WRC car is capable of at such a popular global motorsport event. This was the first time fans in the UK were able to see our car in action, so it was important to put in a good performance while my team mates were competing in Poland. To come away with the fastest times of the weekend against some great drivers was just fantastic.”

Competing in Rally Poland, teammates Thierry Neuville, Juho Hanninen and Hayden Paddon finished in the top eight with Neuville taking a second podium place for the team in third place overall.