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The countdown to the 2025 Goodwood Revival is already underway and tickets for the September event are selling fast. For those attending, there’s a lot happening and for those who can’t, we’ll have reporting on the event in October 2025.

In addition to world-leading on-track race action, there are plans for a huge celebration of Jim Clark, Alfa Romeo and a colourful parade of VW Campers. As well as these purely historic motoring interests there are many inspirational showcases and entertaining features.

This year the Turning Circle is indulging in flower-power and channelling the spirit of Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco, which was home to the hippie movement, with the Summer of Love in 1967.

New for 2025, the High Street will guide you to the Revival Style Village, with vintage and premium fashion, accessories, jewellery, upcycled homeware and automobilia in The Market and The Arches.

Regular fixtures include the Revival Cinema, which screens a number of classic films from the Revival era, and the Car Show, where ticket buyers can reserve a space to park up their beloved classic for all members of the public to admire.

The Bonhams|Cars auction is a regular feature at all Goodwood motorsport events and the 2025 Revival Sale will take place on Saturday 13th September at 10:30am. It’s certain to feature some precious gems of automotive history.

Each year at the Revival, the Freddie March Spirit of Aviation brings together a carefully curated selection of pre-1966 aircraft for a stunning concours d’elegance on the Goodwood airfield that remains active to this day.

Now it wouldn’t be the Goodwood Revival without wall-to-wall theatrics. As you wander through the various avenues of the Motor Circuit, you’ll be met by everything from sweet carts to flash mobs, all serving to draw you into the atmosphere of the 1940s, ‘50s and ’60s. Naturally, there’s the daily Best Dressed competition, as well.

Vintage style icon Dita Von Teese will be returning to the Revival in 2025: once again leading Goodwood’s celebration of vintage fashion. Aside from her fashion influence, she’s also an avid collector of classic cars. Over the years Von Teese has owned a 1930s Chrysler New Yorker, a 1940 La Salle and a 1953 Cadillac Fleetwood. She is currently busy restoring a 1952 Woodill Wildfire.

Jim Clark

This year, the Revival’s celebrated driver is one of the greatest of all time. Jim Clark was a two-time Formula 1 World Champion, revered by his peers as the best of his era: the man after whom Sir Jackie Stewart modelled his own driving style.

This year marks the 60th anniversary of Clark’s second Championship triumph, when he won six races to score maximum points for Team Lotus. Along with that astonishing title win, he also took victory at that year’s Indianapolis 500, again for Team Lotus, the Tasman Series and the British Formula 2 Championship.

It’s the perfect anniversary to celebrate the life and career of one of motorsport’s greats and Goodwood will welcome many of the cars Jim Clark drove.

VE Day celebration

This year marks 80 years since World War II ended in Europe and the country celebrated VE Day, so the Revival will recreate that jubilation with a unique track moment on Sunday. Military and commercial vehicles will complete a parade lap of the track before tables and chairs are set up across the grid.

At lunchtime the Motor Circuit will be transformed into the scene of a vibrant street party. Spectators, dressed in their best 1940s attire, will be welcomed onto the grid to wave a union flag and engage with Swing and Jive groups.

Historic racing

It wouldn’t be the Revival without a stunning weekend of historic motorsport taking place on the Goodwood Motor Circuit. Every year this event sees this place returned to its original form as a hub of global motorsport, bustling with superstars and thousands of excited spectators.

That atmosphere remains unmatched anywhere else in the world and serves as the perfect backdrop to the sound of 1940s, ’50s and ‘60s racing cars, with drivers getting their elbows out once again, as they did all those years ago.

This year’s race list includes 13 events set to play out over the course of three days, a programme that includes the traditional Freddie March Memorial Trophy, the St. Mary’s Trophy and the jewel in the crown of historic motorsport: the RAC TT Celebration.

Formula 1 World Champion and current World Endurance Championship driver Jenson Button is set to make his return to Revival in 2025, racing in the RAC TT Celebration in his bought-for-the-event Jaguar E-Type.

This 1962 ‘Cut 8’ E-Type is the last Jaguar prepared by the great privateer Dick Protheroe, recording wins at the 1965 St Andrews Cup at Brands Hatch and at circuits including Mugello and the Nürburgring. Both car and driver have prior experience competing in the RAC TT Celebration and, after a year away, Button returns in a bid for more glory.

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