Jim Clark to be celebrated at Goodwood Revival 2025

| 16 Apr 2025
Classic & Sports Car – Jim Clark to be celebrated at Goodwood Revival 2025

This year’s Goodwood Revival will honour the late, great Jim Clark.

2025 is the 60th anniversary of some of his greatest achievements, which the 12-14 September event will mark with an array of Clark’s cars, plus a gathering of family, friends and on-track rivals.

In 1965, Clark was crowned the Formula One drivers’ champion for the second time, in the process winning six of that season’s 10 Grands Prix in his Lotus Climax.

He also became the first driver to take victory at the Indianapolis 500 in a rear-engined racing car, and he was the first to do so at an average speed of more than 150mph.

To this day, Clark is still the only person who has ever won the F1 championship and Indy 500 in the same year.

Classic & Sports Car – Jim Clark to be celebrated at Goodwood Revival 2025

Lotus team boss Colin Chapman (left) and Jim Clark (right) in 1964

And there’s more.

On 19 April 1965, which that year was Easter Monday, Clark took the chequered flag at the last F1 race held at Goodwood (pictured at the top of this page).

Called the Sunday Mirror Trophy, it was a non-championship race, during which Clark, in his Lotus 25, and countryman Jackie Stewart, in a BRM P261, both lapped the West Sussex circuit in 1 min 20.4 secs, a shared record that wasn’t beaten before the track ceased to hold motor-racing events in July 1966.

Clark’s F1 victory was, remarkably, one of three he scored that day. Aboard a Lotus Cortina, he took the spoils in the St Mary’s Trophy (a round of the British Saloon Car Championship), plus he was the winner of the Lavant Cup for sports prototypes in a Lotus 30.

Classic & Sports Car – Jim Clark to be celebrated at Goodwood Revival 2025

Jim Clark’s Lotus 97T on track at the Goodwood Motor Circuit

In 1965, Clark also won the Tasman Cup, as well as the British and French Formula Two titles.

To this day, he holds the record for the most F1 ‘grand slams’ (where a driver claims pole position, victory, leads every lap and does the fastest lap) – he has eight to Lewis Hamilton’s six, at the time of writing.

The 60th-anniversary tribute to Jim Clark will be joined by a track parade marking 75 years of Volkswagen Type 2 Split Screens and a celebration of Alfa Romeo.

And, of course, there are 15 races to enjoy, all of which, as in 2024, will run on sustainable fuel.

Tickets for the 2025 Goodwood Revival are available now, and you can save up to 10% if you book before 30 April.

Images: Goodwood


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