Goodwood Revival: history, races, dress code, tickets and the circuit

The Goodwood Revival is a three-day historic motor race meeting held every September at Goodwood Motor Circuit near Chichester in West Sussex, for the kinds of cars and motorcycles that raced there between 1948 and 1966. Much of the crowd comes in 1940s, 1950s or 1960s clothes, and no modern car is allowed inside the circuit. The 2026 Revival ran from 18 to 20 September, and the next one is on 17 to 19 September 2027.
What is the Goodwood Revival?
The Goodwood Revival is a motor racing meeting, a period costume party and a vintage fair held on the same weekend on the same old airfield circuit. Goodwood’s press release for the 20th Revival in 2018 called it “the only one to be staged entirely in period dress” and put the crowd at more than 150,000 people over the three days. The track only races machines of the kind that ran there in its first life: Grand Prix cars, sports cars, GT cars, saloons and motorcycles built before the circuit closed in 1966, plus a few pre-war cars.
The racing runs from first thing in the morning until dusk. Goodwood’s Revival page describes a 12-hour day with 10 hours of wheel-to-wheel racing, and for 2026 the programme had 16 races. Around the track there are Spitfires and other wartime aircraft, a recreated Earls Court Motor Show, a high street of vintage shops, and a funfair across the road. Goodwood puts the value of the cars and motorcycles on and off the track at close to £1 billion.
The meeting has a sponsor in its title: in 2026 it was the Goodwood Revival presented by Dunlop. Goodwood’s members’ club, the Goodwood Road Racing Club (GRRC), was founded by the Duke of Richmond in 1998, the year of the first Revival, and its members get the paddock, their own enclosures and the first chance to book.
When is the Goodwood Revival?
The Revival is held over a Friday, Saturday and Sunday in mid-September. Goodwood has announced the 2027 dates as Friday 17 to Sunday 19 September 2027. The 2026 Revival ran from Friday 18 to Sunday 20 September, as Goodwood confirmed in its 2026 dates announcement.
What is the difference between the Revival and the Festival of Speed?
The Festival of Speed is held in the summer on a 1.16-mile hill climb in the park of Goodwood House, for cars of every age up to current Formula 1 cars. The Revival is held in September on the Motor Circuit, on the other side of the estate, and races only cars and motorcycles of the circuit’s 1948–66 era. The Goodwood Road Racing Company’s 75-year timeline gives the first Festival of Speed as 20 June 1993, with 25,000 spectators, five years before the first Revival. A third event, the Members’ Meeting, came back to the circuit in 2014 and is held in spring. A 2012 SkiddMark preview put the difference this way: the Festival of Speed was Goodwood’s flagship, but the Revival “edges it close for spectacle and exceeds it for glamour”.

History of the Goodwood Revival
The Revival exists because Goodwood’s circuit closed to racing in 1966 and survived almost untouched for 32 years. Charles Gordon-Lennox, then Earl of March and now the 11th Duke of Richmond, reopened it for the first Revival on 18 September 1998.
Goodwood Motor Circuit in its first life
The circuit is the perimeter road of RAF Westhampnett, a Battle of Britain fighter station on the Goodwood estate, in use from 1940 to 1946, Goodwood’s Revival pages record. According to Goodwood’s 2018 release, the 9th Duke of Richmond, known as Freddie March, was persuaded by his friend Tony Gaze, an RAF pilot, that the perimeter road would make a race track. Freddie March had shared the winning MG Midget in the 1931 Double Twelve at Brooklands, Simon Arron writes in Motor Sport (November 2016). It opened on 18 September 1948. The 75-year timeline records 85 drivers and 15,000 spectators that day, a first race won by P. de F. C. Pycroft in a Jaguar, and the first race win of Stirling Moss’s career, in a Cooper-Norton. Arron adds that Goodwood was the first permanent British circuit to hold races after the war, a fortnight before Silverstone.
Through the 1950s and early 1960s Goodwood held non-championship Formula 1 races (the Glover Trophy and the Richmond Trophy), the Goodwood Nine Hours in 1952, 1953 and 1955, and the Tourist Trophy, the RAC’s race for sports and GT cars, from 1958 to 1964. Moss won the TT there in 1958, 1959, 1960 and 1961, and his career at the top ended on Easter Monday 1962, when he crashed his Lotus at St Mary’s. At Easter 1965 Jim Clark (Lotus) and Jackie Stewart (BRM) shared the lap record, 1 minute 20.4 seconds, more than 107 mph, in the last Formula One race held there, as Marcus Pye’s preview of the first Revival in Motor Sport (September 1998) recorded.
The last race meeting was a British Automobile Racing Club event on 2 July 1966. The timeline says the Duke closed the circuit because he was worried about the speed of the new 3-litre Formula 1 cars; Arron adds that slowing them would have meant expensive alterations on a site hemmed in by public roads, with an airfield in the middle. The circuit stayed in use for testing (Formula 1 teams were still there in the early 1980s) and for sprints and track days. Bruce McLaren was killed there testing his new Can-Am car in the summer of 1970.
Bringing racing back to Goodwood
Lord March began taking over the estate from his father in 1991–92 and wanted to reopen the circuit from the start. In 1992, the timeline says, he realised that reopening it would be “a huge and complex task”, so he began with the Festival of Speed on private roads in the park, first held in 1993. Motor Sport used the phrase “Goodwood revival?” on its April 1994 cover, Arron writes, and in that issue Lord March said: “For me, it’s critical that the track should be just the same as it was. … We won’t be having any Armco. We’ll use earth banks protected by substantial tyre walls.” Pye’s 1998 preview describes a “five-year war with the authorities” before he won the right to race there.
Earth banks five metres high, built from 270,000 tonnes of soil, are noise walls as well as viewing banks, and more than 20,000 trees were planted on top of them. Gravel traps were dug at the main run-off areas, and the solid pit and chicane walls were covered in distressed period advertising.
The first Revival opened on Friday 18 September 1998, 50 years to the day after the first meeting. Lord March drove the opening lap in a Bristol, as his grandfather had in 1948; Arron calls it the same Bristol 400, while Goodwood’s timeline says the 1948 car was a new Bristol 401. Pye counted a 300-car entry chosen from 1,000 applications, with priority for cars that had raced at Goodwood in period. Ludovic Lindsay won the first race, the Woodcote Cup, in the ERA “Remus”, and the pilot Ray Hanna flew a Spitfire down the pit straight at roof level, as Goodwood’s timeline puts it.
The Revival meetings since the first
The Revival has been held every September since, with one gap. In 2020 the pandemic cancelled all three Goodwood events, and in October Goodwood ran SpeedWeek behind closed doors, a televised mix of the Festival of Speed and the Revival. The Revival came back from 17 to 19 September 2021; Damien Smith’s preview in Motor Sport (October 2021) notes that the Kinrara Trophy, renamed the Stirling Moss Memorial Trophy after Moss died in April 2020, made its public debut under the new name that weekend, along with a new footbridge from the pit lane to Madgwick.
The 2001 meeting was held from 14 to 16 September, three days after the attacks on New York, and the 2022 meeting days after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, with minutes of silence and a film of her visits to Goodwood. In 2026 Goodwood moved the RAC TT Celebration to the end of Sunday, preceded by a Le Mans-style line-up on the pit wall and a drivers’ parade on an open-top bus, and followed by the first Sunday Closing Party on the grid. The 2026 theme was La Dolce Vita, with celebrations of Maserati, Sir Jack Brabham (60 years after his third world title) and Barry Sheene.

The Goodwood circuit
The Revival is raced on the full Goodwood Motor Circuit, a fast lap of 2.4 miles around Goodwood Aerodrome, the “ultra-fast 2.4-mile circuit” of Motor Sport’s 1998 preview. Its layout has not changed since the chicane was added in 1952.
From the start line the cars run into Madgwick, a double-apex right-hander, then through the fast Fordwater and the off-camber St Mary’s, where Moss crashed in 1962, before climbing to Lavant Corner. The Lavant Straight brings them back to Woodcote and then the chicane before the pits, where Pye wrote of saloons “three-wheeling” and where Goodwood sends spectators to watch cars go sideways. The chicane was first raced at the BARC Members’ Meeting in March 1952; Motor Sport’s April 1952 report noted that “the new chicane beyond Woodcote Corner was in place” and that most drivers seemed to like it, “although it is narrow and rather sharp”. Goodwood’s own timeline lists it under 1951, after Farina’s win in the Goodwood Trophy, saying Freddie Richmond had become concerned about speeds past the pits; it was officially called Paddock Bend.
No car built after 1966 is allowed inside the circuit perimeter over the weekend, except fire and rescue vehicles, a rule Motor Sport recorded for the first meeting in 1998. Spectators reach the infield through the two tunnels under the track, which Damien Smith in Motor Sport described in 2021 as clogged at peak times, and since 2021 by the footbridge to Madgwick. Pye advised first-timers in 1998 that the site is large and that, unless they were happy to be always on the move between races, they should expect to watch from two or three corners. In 2013 Rolls-Royce marked the circuit with a one-off Phantom Coupé called Chicane, with chequered-flag stitching on the seats and a plaque of the track layout in the glovebox, a SkiddMark report from October 2013 recorded.

Goodwood Revival races and winners
The Revival programme is a set of named races, each for one type of car or motorcycle from one period, many carrying the names of races held at Goodwood before 1966. Goodwood’s 2026 timetable put 13 practice sessions and two evening races on Friday, with the rest of the racing on Saturday and Sunday and the RAC TT Celebration last. Goodwood’s results for 2026 run from Race 1 to Race 16; the St Mary’s Trophy, the Barry Sheene Memorial Trophy and the Settrington Cup were each run in two parts.
| Race | Cars or bikes | 2026 winner | Car or bike |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Mary’s Trophy (two parts) | 1960s saloons | Romain Dumas / Fred Shepherd | Ford Galaxie 500 |
| Stirling Moss Memorial Trophy | Early-1960s GT cars, run into the dark on Friday | Alexander van der Lof / Yelmer Buurman | Ferrari 250 GT SWB/C |
| Chichester Cup | Rear-engined Formula Juniors | Stuart Roach | Alexis-Ford Mk3 |
| Brooklands Trophy | Pre-war sports cars, 1925–40 | Patrick Blakeney-Edwards | Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza |
| Barry Sheene Memorial Trophy (two parts) | Motorcycles, two riders each | Booth-Amos / Kingham | Vincent Black Shadow |
| Lavant Cup | 1950s sports cars (Ferrari and Maserati in 2026) | Richard Wilson | Maserati 250S |
| Goodwood Trophy | Early Grand Prix and voiturette cars | Mark Gillies | ERA A-type R3A |
| Richmond & Gordon Trophies | 1950s Formula 1 cars | William Nuthall | Cooper-Climax T53 ‘Lowline’ |
| Sussex Trophy | Sports-racing cars, two drivers | Bonamy Grimes / Johnny Mowlem | Lotus-Climax 15 |
| Freddie March Memorial Trophy | 1950s sports cars | Chris Ward | Jaguar C-type |
| Whitsun Trophy | V8 sports prototypes up to 1966 | James Davison | McLaren-Chevrolet M1B |
| Glover Trophy | 1960s Formula 1 cars | Joe Colasacco | Ferrari 1512 |
| Settrington Cup (two parts) | Austin J40 pedal cars, children | Josh Pierce | Austin J40 |
| RAC TT Celebration | 1960s GT cars, two drivers | Lukas Halusa / André Lotterer | Jaguar E-type Lightweight ‘low drag’ coupé |
Source: Goodwood, “2026 Goodwood Revival race results”, combined results for two-part races; Settrington Cup from Goodwood’s report of the 2026 prize-giving. Goodwood gives the Barry Sheene winners by surname only; the prize-giving names Tom Booth-Amos.
In the 2026 Richmond & Gordon Trophies Tom Waterfield came through from the back of the grid to win on the road and was then disqualified, which gave Will Nuthall his sixth win in the race.
RAC TT Celebration
The RAC TT Celebration is the Revival’s main race: a two-driver race for the kind of GT cars that ran in the Tourist Trophy at Goodwood from 1958 to 1964, which in practice means a grid of AC Cobras, Chevrolet Corvettes and Jaguar E-types, Goodwood’s 2018 release says. Goodwood’s 2026 announcement gives it as one hour long and its final-day report as 45 minutes. It has been on every programme since 1998. Goodwood’s history of the Goodwood TTs recalls the 1959 race, when the Aston Martin pit caught fire and Moss took over Carroll Shelby and Jack Fairman’s DBR1 to win the race and the World Sportscar Championship for Aston Martin.
The 2026 race was the first to close the meeting. Mike Whitaker’s TVR Griffith 400 led from the start; Dario Franchitti lost time with a problem in the pits when he took over the TVR, and André Lotterer, sharing the low-drag E-type with Lukas Halusa, beat the Shelby Cobra of Holme and Andrew Jordan. It was Lotterer’s third win in the race.
RAC TT Celebration winners
| Year | Drivers | Car |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Halusa / Lotterer | Jaguar E-type Lightweight ‘low drag’ coupé |
| 2025 | Ingram / Kent | Jaguar E-type FHC |
| 2024 | Ingram / Whitaker | TVR Griffith 400 |
| 2023 | Priaulx / Paul | Jaguar E-type ‘semi-lightweight’ |
| 2022 | Shedden / Smith | AC Cobra |
| 2021 | Turner / Bryant | AC Cobra |
| 2020 | Lotterer / Wakeman (SpeedWeek) | Lister-Jaguar Coupé |
| 2019 | Lotterer / Wilson | AC Cobra |
| 2018 | Hart / Hart | AC Cobra |
| 2017 | Gans / Wolfe | AC Cobra |
| 2016 | Shedden / Ward | Jaguar E-type |
| 2015 | Shedden / Ward | Jaguar E-type |
| 2014 | Van der Garde / Hart | AC Cobra |
| 2013 | Friedrichs / Hadfield | Aston Martin DP212 |
| 2012 | Brundle / Newey | Jaguar E-type ‘lightweight’ |
| 2011 | Kristensen / Brack | Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe |
| 2010 | Gounon / Hardman | Ferrari 250 GTO/64 |
| 2009 | Rahal / Newey | Jaguar E-type ‘lightweight’ |
| 2008 | Verdon Roe / Hardman | Ferrari 300 LMB |
| 2007 | Barazi / Vergers | Jaguar E-type ‘lightweight’ |
| 2006 | Barazi / Vergers | Jaguar E-type ‘lightweight’ |
| 2005 | Franchitti / Pirro | Jaguar E-type ‘lightweight’ |
| 2004 | Attwood / Hales | Iso Bizzarrini A3C |
| 2003 | Attwood / Hales | Iso Bizzarrini A3C |
| 2002 | Pescarolo / Tambay | AC Cobra |
| 2001 | Pirro / Fisken | Jaguar E-type ‘lightweight’ |
| 2000 | Sullivan / Hitchins | Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe |
| 1999 | Corner / Hales | Jaguar E-type ‘lightweight’ |
| 1998 | Corner / Williams | Jaguar E-type ‘lightweight’ |
Source: Goodwood, “Previous winners of the RAC TT Celebration” (drivers’ surnames as Goodwood’s table gives them). The 2020 race was run at SpeedWeek, without spectators.
The Jaguar E-type has won the race 13 times, more than any other car, and the AC Cobra seven times, with two more for the Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe; the E-type’s historic racing record runs through these Goodwood wins. On Goodwood’s table three drivers have won it three times: Mark Hales (1999, 2003, 2004), Gordon Shedden (2015, 2016, 2022) and André Lotterer (2019, 2020, 2026).
Stirling Moss Memorial Trophy
The Stirling Moss Memorial Trophy is a one-hour, two-driver race for GT cars of the early 1960s, run on Friday evening into the dark. It began in 2016 as the Kinrara Trophy, and Tom Kristensen won the first one; Goodwood’s 2018 release called it “arguably now the most expensive historic grid in the world”, with more than ten Ferrari 250 GT SWBs entered that year. In 2026 Alexander van der Lof and Yelmer Buurman won from second on the grid in a Ferrari 250 GT SWB, ahead of a Lotus Elite and a Jaguar E-type.
St Mary’s Trophy
The St Mary’s Trophy is for saloon cars and is split into two races, each with its own driver, decided on aggregate. In 2026 it was for 1960s saloons: Ford Galaxies, Lotus Cortinas, Minis, Jaguar Mk 2s and Alfa Romeo GTAs. Romain Dumas won Part 1 in a Galaxie 500 after a slow start, and Fred Shepherd won Part 2 in the same car, which gave them the combined win ahead of Tom Ingram and Nick Sampson’s Lotus Cortina and Jenson Button and Richard Williams’s Cortina.

Barry Sheene Memorial Trophy
The Barry Sheene Memorial Trophy is the motorcycle race, run in two parts with two riders per bike and a Le Mans-style start in which the riders run across the track to their machines. Sheene raced at the Revival himself: Goodwood’s timeline records his win in the Lennox Cup in 2002 after a battle with Wayne Gardner, his last race. In 2026, 50 years after Sheene’s first world title, Tom Booth-Amos and Kingham won both parts on a Vincent Black Shadow, with John McGuinness, named rider of the meeting, second on a Norton Manx.
Settrington Cup
The Settrington Cup is a race for children in Austin J40 pedal cars, run in two parts, on Saturday and Sunday in 2026. Josh Pierce won it that year, and his prize was presented at the Sunday Closing Party alongside the drivers’ awards.

Which famous drivers race at the Revival?
Every Revival mixes amateur owners with professional drivers from Formula 1, Le Mans, IndyCar and touring cars, often sharing one car. Pye’s 1998 preview expected Moss, Sir Jack Brabham, Phil Hill, John Surtees, Dan Gurney, Derek Bell, Tony Brooks and Roy Salvadori at the first meeting. Goodwood’s report of the 2026 final day listed Formula 1 champions Jenson Button and Jacques Villeneuve and the IndyCar driver Hélio Castroneves (his first historic race) in the RAC TT Celebration, with Dario Franchitti, Romain Dumas, André Lotterer, Tom Ingram, Gordon Shedden and Jason Plato. On two wheels, Troy Bayliss and Eugene Laverty rode in the 2026 Barry Sheene Memorial Trophy.

Goodwood Revival dress code: what to wear
There is no compulsory dress code for general admission at the Goodwood Revival, but most visitors dress in the styles of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Goodwood’s Revival FAQs put it plainly: “Dressing up is all part of the fun at Revival, but there’s no pressure.” Goodwood suggests anything from one accessory, such as a scarf or a hat, to vintage pieces mixed with modern clothes, to a “head-to-toe period look”.
What do people wear to the Revival?
Goodwood’s own style guide describes the Revival look as “the sharp tailoring and heritage fabrics of the post-war era as well as the more functional garbs of motor sport heroes”. For men it suggests a fedora, driving gloves, braces, cufflinks, a tie clip, a lapel pin, a pocket square or a bow tie; for women a silk scarf, classic sunglasses, a vintage handbag, a hat, loose-cut trousers with a tapered leg, and bold red lipstick, “a Revival favourite for good reason”. It asks visitors to look in charity shops and on resale sites before buying anything new. Visitors in period dress can be picked for the Best Dressed Competition, presented in 2026 by Ancestry.
Goodwood’s parking advice recommends “appropriate footwear” because all the car parks are grass fields, and its style guide asks visitors whether an outfit “is comfortable enough for a full day at Revival” before they buy it.
What can’t you wear?
Goodwood’s FAQs ask visitors not to wear “controversial uniforms or clothing, costumes or accessories that appropriate another culture”, and say it may refuse entry or ask people to leave if their clothes are “inappropriate or offensive”. Replica weapons are banned anywhere on site, except for authorised re-enactment groups, and bags are searched at the gates.
The paddock and the GRRC
The racing paddock has always been stricter. At the first Revival in 1998, Motor Sport reported, the paddock was open only to Goodwood Road Racing Club members, and “gentlemen must wear jackets and ties, indeed T-shirts, anoraks, baseball caps and mobile phones are banned”. From 2026, a GRRC member’s badge is the paddock pass, and each member can bring one guest into the Central Paddock, according to the archived 2026 Admission & Grandstand Package page.

What else is there to see off the track?
Off the track the Revival fills the airfield site with period displays, shops, aircraft and entertainment, and these, described in Goodwood’s 2018 release and its current Revival pages, are open to anyone with a day ticket, except where noted:
- The Freddie March Spirit of Aviation, a concours for pre-1966 aircraft parked by the circuit, with Spitfires, Hurricanes and other wartime aircraft flying displays over the weekend.
- The Earls Court Motor Show, a replica of the London motor show of the period with a themed display; in 2018 it showed cars and bikes connected to Steve McQueen.
- The Revival High Street and the Revival Style Village, with vintage clothes shops, workshops and talks.
- Over the Road, across a bridge from the circuit, with a vintage funfair, live music stages, food and drink, and the Revival Cinema; its bars stay open until 22:00 on Friday and Saturday and 21:00 on Sunday.
- The Bonhams sale, with the preview on Friday (by invitation or catalogue) and the auction on Saturday; the marquee is open to all on Sunday.
- The Revival Car Show, a car park for visitors’ pre-1966 and tax-exempt cars, free to book but sold out in advance.
In 2026 the Sunday Closing Party followed the RAC TT Celebration on the grid, with cake, Champagne, London’s Ruckus Brass Band and the prize-giving, at which Joe Colasacco was named Rolex Driver of the Meeting.
Goodwood Revival tickets and prices
Revival tickets are sold by Goodwood, and from 2026 they are digital, held in the Goodwood Tickets app. For 2027 the priority sale is open to GRRC Members and Fellows and to 2026 ticket holders, with general sale “later in the year”, Goodwood said in its 2027 dates announcement. Its ticket pages already show early-bird prices for 2027.
| Ticket | 2027 price | 2026 price | What it includes (2027) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Admission & Grandstand Package | from £163 per person | from £157 | Entry, Roving Grandstand Pass, programme with radio earpiece, Over the Road and evening festivities, free parking |
| Roving Grandstand Pass | from £65 per person | from £62 | Covered seats in the roving grandstands and the Chicane Grandstand on Friday; entry to the event not included |
| Camping | from £245 per pitch | from £225 | 9 × 7 m pitch from Wednesday morning until midday Monday, parking for one vehicle, toilets and showers, 24-hour security, electric hook-up at some campsites; entry to the event not included |
Source: Goodwood’s ticket pages for the Admission & Grandstand Package, the Roving Grandstand and camping, read 28 October 2026; the 2026 figures are from the same pages archived on 8 January, 29 January and 13 February 2026. Goodwood gives each as the lowest early-bird price, “from” the figure shown.
Do children go free?
Children under 13 go free, but they need a free child ticket ordered in advance and must be with an adult who has a ticket; at the gate they get a wristband with a contact phone number. Young people aged 13 to 21 pay a reduced price, which Goodwood’s Revival page gives as half price. Children aged two and over need their own Roving Grandstand Pass.
Refunds, resale and discounts
Orders can be cancelled, exchanged or refunded only in the first 48 hours after purchase. After that, a ticket can be resold at face value through Twickets, Goodwood’s official resale partner; Goodwood says it may refuse entry to anyone holding a ticket bought through an unofficial resale site. Joining the GRRC Fellowship gives ten per cent off two tickets and grandstand passes per day, access to the Pit Stop enclosures and earlier booking.

How to get to the Goodwood Revival
The Revival is at Goodwood Motor Circuit, Chichester, West Sussex, PO18 0PH. Parking is free, and the other way in is by train to Chichester and a shuttle bus. The times and rules below are Goodwood’s, from its Getting Here page and FAQs as published for 2026.
By train and shuttle bus
Chichester is the nearest station, about 1 hour 30 minutes from London. Goodwood says the quickest route from London is from Waterloo, changing at Havant, with direct trains from London Victoria too. Shuttle buses, paid for on the day, run between Chichester station and the circuit from 07:00 into the evening; Goodwood’s page gives the last buses as 22:00 or 23:00 on Friday and Saturday and 21:00 or 22:00 on Sunday in two places, so check on the day. The Revival weekend can clash with engineering works: in 2026 there were no Southern trains between Three Bridges and Horsham or Barnham on the Saturday and Sunday.
By car, motorcycle or air
Parking is free, on grass, and opens at 07:00 each day; Goodwood warns it may not suit low cars, and there is no overnight parking and no electric-car charging. Motorcycles have hard standing in car parks A and C and helmet storage at Gate 12. Blue badge holders park in car park D, where taxis also drop off and pick up. Goodwood Aerodrome, the airfield the circuit runs round, takes fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters up to 12 metres long.
Camping
Goodwood runs campsites in the fields around the circuit, with pitches of 9 by 7 metres, with or without electric hook-up, open from 09:00 on the Wednesday until midday on the Monday. Pitches sell out before the event.
Opening times on the day
The main gates open at 08:30, or 07:30 for GRRC Members and Fellows, and the first car is on track at 08:45. The main site closes at about 19:00.
Accessibility
There are five raised viewing platforms for wheelchair and mobility-scooter users, four of them covered, and a fleet of period vehicles that carries disabled guests around the site, booked through Shopmobility or the Gate 2A taxi office. Shopmobility hires out electric scooters from car park D, and Changing Places toilets are between Gates 12 and 13 and at the Over the Road north entrance. Essential Companion tickets are handled by Nimbus Disability.
Questions
How many people go to the Goodwood Revival?
More than 150,000 over the three days, according to Goodwood’s press release for the 20th Revival in 2018. At the first international meeting at Goodwood, on Easter Monday 1949, the crowd was so much bigger than expected that fences were broken down, Goodwood’s timeline records.
Can you take a picnic to the Goodwood Revival?
Yes. Goodwood allows a picnic with a moderate amount of alcohol: up to one 750 ml bottle of wine or Champagne, or up to four beers, shared between two people. Spirits are not allowed, and drinking is limited to certain areas.
Can you take a dog to the Goodwood Revival?
No. Dogs and other pets are not allowed into the event, and must not be left in cars or at the campsite; only guide dogs and registered assistance dogs are admitted, with their certification and a harness.
Is the Goodwood Revival cashless?
Yes. Goodwood has run the Revival as a cashless event since 2019: catering, GRRC enclosures and food stalls take contactless cards and Apple Pay or Google Pay, with chip and PIN for purchases over £30.
Can I bring my classic car to the Goodwood Revival?
Yes, if it was built before 1966 or is tax-exempt: you can book a free space in the Revival Car Show car park, which sells out before the event. GRRC members have their own pre-1966 car park on the Lavant Straight, and owners can apply to race or display a car through Goodwood’s application form.
Was there a Goodwood Revival in 2020?
No. The pandemic cancelled the 2020 Revival, Festival of Speed and Members’ Meeting, and Goodwood held SpeedWeek behind closed doors in October instead, with an RAC TT Celebration won by André Lotterer and Fred Wakeman in a Lister-Jaguar Coupé. The Revival returned on 17–19 September 2021.
Can you fly a drone at the Goodwood Revival?
No. Members of the public may not fly drones at or over the Revival, and drones are on Goodwood’s list of prohibited items with knives, excessive alcohol and animals.
Sources
- Goodwood, “Twenty Magnificent Years of the Goodwood Revival: 2018 Highlights Preview”, press release, 20 August 2018: Freddie March and Tony Gaze, the opening in 1948, the 1966 closure, the first Revival on 18 September 1998, the period-dress claim, a crowd of over 150,000, the Kinrara Trophy, the Barry Sheene start, off-track features.
- Goodwood Road Racing Company, “Goodwood: 75 years of motorsport 1948–2023”, 2023: the 1948 meeting, the chicane, the TTs, Moss’s crash, the 1965 lap record, the last race in 1966, the first Festival of Speed, the 1998 Revival, Sheene’s last race, the 2001, 2020 and 2022 meetings.
- Marcus Pye, “Goodwood circuit revival”, Motor Sport, September 1998, p. 28: the restoration, earth banks and trees, the 300-car entry, the expected drivers, the paddock dress rule, the lap record.
- Motor Sport, “B.A.R.C. Goodwood Members’ Meeting”, April 1952, p. 10: the new chicane in use at the March 1952 meeting.
- Simon Arron, “History repeats itself”, Motor Sport, November 2016, p. 68: Freddie March’s 1931 Double Twelve, the 1994 “Goodwood revival?” cover and Lord March’s words, the first post-war permanent circuit, the 1998 Bristol lap and Woodcote Cup.
- Damien Smith, “2021 Goodwood Revival: another vintage year”, Motor Sport, October 2021, p. 102: the 2021 return, the Stirling Moss Memorial Trophy’s public debut, the Madgwick footbridge and the two tunnels.
- Goodwood, Goodwood Revival official page, read 28 October 2026: the 2027 dates, the 12-hour day, the value of the entry, the 2026 theme and tributes, children’s prices, the dress guidance, off-track areas.
- Goodwood Road & Racing, “2027 Revival dates revealed”, September 2026: 17–19 September 2027, priority booking, GRRC Fellowship discount.
- Goodwood Road & Racing, “2026 Revival dates revealed”: 18–20 September 2026.
- Goodwood Road & Racing, “Revival timetable 2026”: the 2026 race programme day by day and what each race is for.
- Goodwood Road & Racing, “Huge changes revealed for Sunday at Goodwood Revival”, 2026: the RAC TT Celebration as the last race, the line-up and parade, the Closing Party.
- Goodwood Road & Racing, “2026 Goodwood Revival race results”, September 2026: every 2026 race result and the race reports quoted.
- Goodwood Road & Racing, “The final day of the 2026 Goodwood Revival”, 20 September 2026: the RAC TT Celebration field.
- Goodwood Road & Racing, “Sunday’s Closing Party was the perfect finale to the 2026 Goodwood Revival”, September 2026: the prize-giving, the Settrington Cup winner.
- Goodwood Road & Racing, “Previous winners of the RAC TT Celebration”, updated 2026: the winners’ table, 1998–2026.
- Goodwood Road & Racing, “When the RAC TT first came to Goodwood”, 2026: the Goodwood TTs of 1958–64 and the 1959 pit fire.
- Goodwood, Goodwood Revival FAQs, read 28 October 2026: dress guidance and banned clothing, digital tickets, children, refunds and Twickets, opening times, picnics, dogs, cashless payment, camping, accessibility.
- Goodwood, “What to wear at Goodwood Revival”, read 28 October 2026: style guidance.
- Goodwood, “Getting here & parking”, Goodwood Revival, read 28 October 2026: trains, shuttle buses, 2026 engineering works, parking, taxis, the aerodrome.
- Goodwood, “Admission & Grandstand Package”, read 28 October 2026: the 2027 early-bird price and what it includes.
- Goodwood, “Roving Grandstands”, read 28 October 2026: the 2027 early-bird price and what it includes.
- Goodwood, “Camping”, read 28 October 2026: the 2027 early-bird price and pitch details.
- Goodwood, “Admission & Grandstand Package”, 2026 Revival, archived 13 February 2026: the price and what it includes, GRRC paddock passes.
- Goodwood, “Roving Grandstand”, 2026 Revival, archived 8 January 2026: the grandstand pass price.
- Goodwood, “Camping”, 2026 Revival, archived 29 January 2026: the camping price and pitch details.
- SkiddMark, “Goodwood’s Golden Ticket: we look forward to the 2013 Revival”, 3 November 2012: the comparison with the Festival of Speed.
- SkiddMark, “One-off Rolls-Royce Chicane Phantom Coupé celebrates Goodwood Motor Circuit”, 30 October 2013: the Chicane Phantom Coupé.