The Goodwood Revival returns to the Duke of Richmond’s motor circuit in West Sussex from 12-14 September 2025, for another action-packed weekend of historic motorsport and period nostalgia.
As ever, the Revival will celebrate several important anniversaries and motor racing milestones. One of the headline tributes is dedicated to the late, great Jim Clark, who won both the Indy 500 and the second of his two Formula 1 World Championship titles in 1965. He remains the only driver in history to have won the iconic US race and the F1 Driver’s title in the same season.
The 60th anniversary of Clark’s momentous achievement will be marked with a number of his legendary machines – from humble touring cars to his World Championship-winning Lotuses, completing ceremonial laps around the Motor Circuit. Two of Clark’s countrymen – friend and rival Sir Jackie Stewart and fellow Indy 500 winner Dario Franchitti – will be in attendance.
Joining Jim Clark in the spotlight is Alfa Romeo, whose greatest motor sport achievements will be honoured 100 years after securing the inaugural World Championship for Manufacturers and 50 years since claiming the World Sportscar Championship.
Alfa Romeo, therefore, will be honoured as the event’s featured marque with daily on-track celebrations showcasing some of the marque’s most significant racing cars. Highlights include the 1925 P2 that won the World Championship for Manufacturers, the dominant 158 Alfetta and the World Sports Car Championship-winning Tipo 33. The tribute will also salute some of the brand’s most iconic drivers, including Juan Manuel Fangio, Antonio Ascari and Tazio Nuvolari.
Before Clark’s race cars and Alfa Romeo’s legends take to the track, proceedings will be opened each day by a cavalcade of Volkswagen Type 2 Split Screens. Introduced in 1950, the Type 2 – better known as the Camper – went on to achieve cult status, embraced by celebrity owners and immortalised on album covers by artists such as Bob Dylan and the Beach Boys. Fittingly, Revival 2025 promises the largest gathering of Type 2 Split Screens ever assembled.
Rivalling the Type 2 parade for sheer vibrancy will be five of BMW’s celebrated Art Cars. Created by Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney, Jeff Koons, Frank Stella and Ernst Fuchs, they will be on show in the Earls Court Motor Show throughout the weekend.
Fierce, wheel-to-wheel action remains the Revival’s greatest attraction – and 2025 will be no exception. For the second year in succession, the Revival’s action-packed programme of races will be run exclusively on synthetic fuels to mirror the event’s sustainable ‘Revive and Thrive’ ethos.
Highlights of this year’s timetable include Friday’s Barry Sheene Memorial Trophy for vintage motorcycles and the 60-minute Freddie March Memorial Trophy for 1950s sports cars. Saturday’s programme is headlined by the St Mary’s Trophy, which this year features a grid of saloons from the late 1950s and early 1960s, while Sunday builds to a crescendo with the Sussex Trophy for late-1950s sports-racers and the flagship RAC TT Celebration for closed-cockpit GT cars.
Adding to the excitement is the sheer quality of talent and big-name drivers found throughout the race card. Among the big hitters is 2009 Formula 1 World Champion Jenson Button, who returns to compete in the RAC TT Celebration behind the wheel of his own Jaguar E-type. Button will be joined on the grid by his former teammate and 1997 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve, who will make his historic racing debut in the fearsome AC Cobra ‘Hairy Canary’.
These F1 legends will share the paddock with Le Mans greats Tom Kristensen, Emanuele Pirro and Derek Bell, as well as IndyCar icons Scott Dixon, Tony Kanaan and Dario Franchitti. Also confirmed for 2025 are touring car stars Gordon Shedden, Matt Neal and Steve Soper, plus legendary Formula 1 designer Adrian Newey, among many others.
Away from the circuit, Revival weekend wouldn’t be the same without the historic ambience and period fashion. This year, The Peninsula London will add to the atmosphere with a pop-up clubhouse styled on its Brooklands Bar, where visitors can enjoy period-inspired hospitality alongside displays such as the aero-engined 1933 Napier-Railton and a 1960s Austin Taxi.
American model and actress Dita Von Teese returns to headline the Revival Style Stage, alongside jazz musician Dandy Wellington on Friday. Von Teese will then judge Sunday’s Best dressed contest, with the assistance of stylist and writer Paula Sutton, style coach Adele Mitchell and designer Charlotte Dellal.
Car collectors will be drawn to the return of Bonhams’ annual Goodwood Sale on Saturday afternoon, led by a 1966 AC Cobra 4.7-litre Competition Hardtop Coupé, estimated at £1.5m–£2m, and an Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato Sanction III (£700,000–£1m). Further highlights include a 1956 Maserati A6G/54 2000GT Coupé (£500,000-£750,000) and a 1951 Jaguar XK120 Competition Roadster with Le Mans provenance (£300,000-£400,000).
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