Jimmie Johnson‘s Goodwood Revival began on the worst attainable observe when he spun within the rain into the tyre limitations throughout observe, damaging the rear of his Aston Martin DB4 GT. He proceeded to bounce again in dominant style on Saturday when he went from fourth to first on the opening lap and led flag to flag to win the Stirling Moss Memorial Trophy.
Johnson, a seven-time NASCAR Cup Sequence champion who’s all the way down to race mainly something since his retirement from full-time Cup competitors, teamed up with IndyCar Sequence nice Dario Franchitti to share the DB4. Whereas Johnson’s luck have been something however lately, he proved he definitely nonetheless has gasoline within the tank. He had been main even earlier than the observe spin within the moist earlier than sealing it with the win.
“That is very particular. I get a cigar too. What an honour,” mentioned Johnson. “This has simply been an occasion that I don’t wish to miss. I’ve all the time dreamed of coming right here and competing. My time within the States was fairly busy and I used to be lastly in a position to are available in ’22 and it’s such an unimaginable race. Huge thanks and credit score to this group.
“Type of scratched the again of it yesterday within the rain they usually’ve been in a position to repair the automobile and get it again on monitor. Dario has been such a very long time shut good friend and to have the ability to share a automobile with him and to share a win collectively.”
Franchitti’s nephew Luca and daughter Sofia additionally obtained to spend a while behind the wheel once they ran the Settrington Cup, a youth class for Austin J40 pedal vehicles. Luca gained the primary race however completed twenty-second within the second, whereas Sofia was seventeenth and third. Dario’s youthful brother Marino Franchitti was additionally readily available to run the Sussex Trophy in his Lister Flat Iron towards the likes of Alex Brundle, André Lotterer, and Tiff Needell.
The Goodwood Revival is the Goodwood Home’s historic automobile competition, held three months after the trademark Competition of Velocity. To this finish, the weekend noticed autos as outdated because the Thirties, with Grand Prix vehicles from the pre-Second World Warfare period comprising the sphere for the Goodwood Trophy. Ian Baxter gained that race in his Alta 61 IS, a voiturette that was in-built 1937.
James Davison, a NASCAR and IndyCar driver like Johnson and Francitti, completed third within the Sussex Trophy in his 1958 Lotus Climax shared with Roger Wills however his 1966 McLaren M1B bowed out of the Whitsun Trophy regardless of setting the quickest lap. The latter race additionally featured Purple Bull Racing’s Adrian Newey in a Ford GT40, the place he positioned seventh.
Elsewhere on the Goodwood Circuit, Sir Jackie Stewart and the Duke of Richmond oversaw the reopening of the Tyrrell Shed to most of the people. A former navy shed, it was utilized by Ken Tyrrell‘s Components One operation till 1976 when the group moved right into a purpose-built manufacturing facility; the shed was transformed right into a storage facility afterwards earlier than being left to decay till its restoration and relocation. A non-public reveal was carried out for the Goodwood Highway Racing Membership on the 81st Members’ Assembly in April.
Earlier than each race days, parades had been carried out to respectively commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of Meyers Manx‘s first dune buggy and the eightieth of the Normandy landings. The latter—all of the extra applicable because the Goodwood property was RAF Westhampnett in the course of the conflict—featured a convoy of navy autos together with tanks and planes, in addition to the Rolls-Royce Wraith that served as Area Marshal Bernard Montgomery‘s private car in France earlier than being restored by Richard Hammond.
The 2025 Goodwood Revival is scheduled for 12–14 September.
