Following a bumper year of 75th-anniversary celebrations in 2025, Goodwood is already promising a memorable start to 2026, with April’s Members’ Meeting dedicated to marking 50 years since James Hunt won the 1976 championship against Niki Lauda.
Taking place from Saturday 18 April to Sunday 19 April, the 83rd Goodwood Members’ Meeting will honour the charismatic British World Champion with ‘The James Hunt Years’ – a series of on-track demonstrations featuring 20 iconic 1970s F1 cars.
The selection of cars includes several of Hunt’s challengers, as well as those of legendary rivals such as Graham Hill, Sir Jackie Stewart, Nelson Piquet, Gilles Villeneuve, Emerson Fittipaldi and of course, Niki Lauda, among many others.
Central to Hunt’s Formula 1 legacy is his defining 1976 campaign, later dramatised in the 2013 film Rush. It was a year of fierce competition, controversy and paddock politics, punctuated by Niki Lauda’s near-fatal Nürburgring crash, remarkable recovery and late-season fightback. The title went to the wire and, in a rain-soaked Fuji finale, Lauda decided to retire on safety grounds, leaving Hunt to clinch the title.
‘The 1970s were a transformative era for Formula 1, and my father was undoubtedly at the heart of it all,’ commented Freddie Hunt about next year’s celebration. ‘To see some of his greatest cars reunited in celebration of what many consider the greatest season in the sport’s history truly means a great deal to us.’
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