2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed preview: the hillcimb, tickets and how to watch

More than 200,000 racing fans are expected to descend on Goodwood House this summer for the annual Festival of Speed — a high-octane four-day garden party that showcases and celebrates the very best of motor sport’s past, present and future.

In 2025, the theme will be ‘The Winning Formula — Champions and Challengers’, centred on the 75th anniversary of the Formula 1 World Championship with the event’s biggest ever display of cars and drivers from motor sport’s top echelon.

More than 80 cars from every F1 era are set to scream up Goodwood Hill, and the main paddock will also be redesigned to accommodate an F1 takeover of epic proportions.

In addition, the 2025 Festival of Speed will also celebrate many other significant milestones in motor sport history, such as the 125th anniversary of the Gordon Bennett Cup and the Thousand Mile Trial, as well as the 100th anniversary of the World Manufacturers’ Championship. Competitors and champions from every major motor sport championship — including WEC, WRC, Formula E, IndyCar, Nascar, Dakar, MotoGP and World Superbikes — will be welcomed too, each contributing the event’s ‘Winning Formula’ theme.

More is set to be announced in the coming months, but here is everything we know so far about the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed.

• How to get tickets for the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed
• How to watch the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed
• 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed full schedule
• What F1 cars will be at the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed?
• The Hillclimb
• Weekend highlights

Tickets for 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed

All tickets to the 2025 FOS include roving access around the Goodwood House grounds, allowing you to get up close and personal with some of motor sport’s greatest machines and their drivers.

Buy tickets here.

General Admission 

General admission tickets are currently available for Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and cost £67, £81, £108 and £89 per person respectively. These cover the full day of motor-themed entertainment and give you access to multiple areas including the Future Lab, Electric Avenue and the Supercar Paddock, as well as standing areas alongside the hillclimb and rally stage.

Roving grandstand passes are also available for £45 each — allowing you to get a better view of the action.

General Admission and Grandstand Package 

General admission and grandstand packages are currently available for Thursday, Friday and Sunday and range from £130-£183 per person.

Vistors will also receive a programme and a radio with a headset upon their arrival.

Hospitality tickets

There are a multitude of hospitality packages which are available to book over the FOS weekend — with each promising to provide entertainment, gourmet dining and quality hospitality alongside great views of the hillclimb and opportunities to meet visiting stars.

The Surtees Pavilion is Goodwood’s very own hospitality package — with prices starting from £2100 per person — and includes catering supplied by a Michelin Star chef, a private mixologist, and private enclosure access as well as superb views of the hillclimb.

How to watch 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed: Live stream and TV

If you can’t make it in person, you can see all of the weekend’s action on the live-stream from Thursday to Sunday. This should be available on the Motor Sport site. Check back for full details closer to the event.

A highlights package is often available on TV as well.

2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed — full schedule coming soon

Four action-packed days of hillclimbs, rallying and demo runs will begin on Thursday 10 July and will run until Sunday 13 July — with the full schedule of events set to be released over the coming months.

Based on 2024’s schedule here’s what you could expect on each day, with visitors allowed into the grounds from 7am onwards.

Thursday

The Duke of Richmond marked the start of the 31th Festival of Speed with an opening ceremony before batches of cars climbed the Goodwood Hill one after the next for the first time — with timed practice later in the afternoon. The opening day also included air displays from the Red Arrows as well as the opening of the Bonhams Auction and dynamic debuts of the latest and greatest cars from global motor manufacturers.

Friday

On Friday, more categories of cars took to the hillclimb while some of the worlds most expensive motor sport memorabilia and historic cars went under the hammer at the Bonhams Auction. There was also some further spectacle provided by Adrian Newey, who revealed his RB17 hypercar.

Saturday

The start of the weekend action was marked traditionally by qualifying for Sunday’s hillclimb shootout, in which the quickest cars competed to set the quickest times.

Saturday is also the best time to see your favourite motor sport stars, with multiple opportunities to grab autographs and photos from the Top Paddock. Goodwood’s forest rally stage will also be in action, giving you a chance to catch a fleeting glimpse of stars from the WRC and the Dakar Rally.

Sunday

‘Shootout Sunday’ — as it is more commonly known — was dominated by the final and fastest runs of the Goodwood Hillclimb. The Ford Supervan 4.2 set a blistering time in the hands of Romain Dumas — over three seconds clear of second-placed Scott Dixon in a Subaru WRX: Project Midnight.

There were also several memorbale ‘balcony moments’ including appearances from Red Bull stars such as Max Verstappen, Christian Horner, Daniel Ricciardo, Mark Webber and Sergio Perez.

What F1 cars will be at 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed?

The 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed will feature at least 80 F1 cars from six different categories which each represent a key era in the world championship’s history.

The Prologue class will offer a closer look at pre-war grand prix cars that featured in the Manufacturers’ World Championship which ran from 1925-1927, and the 1930s European Drivers’ Championship. Some of the models on display or even tearing up the Goodwood Hill could include ERA A-type R3As, Alta 61 ISs and Frazer Nash ‘Fane’ Monopostos — all of which featured during last year’s Goodwood Revival.

The Pioneer class will provide a showcase for cars that featured in F1’s initial world championship years and helped shape the sport for years to come. Expect appearances from world title winners such as the Ferrari 246 Dino and Maserati 250F as well as early Alfa Romeos, Mercedes and Vanwalls.

F1’s Innovators pushed the series forward — and continue to do so to this day — with ground breaking designs which continuously move the goalposts of success. Cars in this category could include Tyrrell’s six-wheeled P34, Brabham’s BT46 ‘fan car’ and the Ferrari 640, which was the first F1 car to use a paddle shift gearbox.

Of course it wouldn’t be the Festival of Speed without a spotlight shined on F1’s greatest cars and drivers in the Champions class. In the series’ 75 year history, 34 drivers have claimed a world championship — giving Goodwood plenty of options for cars to display and race. From Michael Schumacher’s various title-winning Ferrari’s and Ayrton Senna’s classic McLarens to Jackie Stewart’s Tyrrell and Nigel Mansell’s ‘Red 5′ Williams — expect a substantial part of the F1 celebrations to be focused on the series’ very best.

The 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed will also focus on the opposite end of the competitive scale, with a whole category just for Underdogs. Many teams throughout F1 history have defied the odds to snatch unlikely pole positions, podiums, wins and even world championships — creating some of the series’ most memorable moments. Fans could expect appearances from Jenson Button’s title-winning Brawn BGP 001 and Damon Hill’s race-winning Jordan 198, as well as James Hunt’s Hesketh and Dan Gurney’s Eagle AAR104-Weslake.

The final F1 class at the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed will be made up of Current F1 Teams. Red Bull featured heavily at last year’s FoS and could be expected to return again this year alongside McLaren, Mercedes, Ferrari and others. Given F1’s strict testing regulations, it’s unlikely we’ll see a 2025 F1 car tackle the Goodwood Hillclimb, but title winners such as the Mercedes W11 and Red Bull’s RB19B could be in action.

The Goodwood Hillclimb — Categories

The schedule for this year’s highly-anticipated Goodwood Hillclimb has not yet been released but it will likely contain hundreds of makes and models broken down into different categories or ‘batches’.

Based on last year’s running, entrants could include legends from Le Mans and F1 as well as concept cars and high-powered EVs. Will any of them be able to top the McMurtry Speirling’s record-breaking time?

Goodwood Hillclimb — Fastest ever times

Weekend highlights

From head-to-head F1 shootouts to star-studded driver appearances, there are expected to be many highlights across the 2025 Festival of Speed. Little is confirmed as of yet, but be sure to check back to this page for updates on what to look out for over the course of the four-day weekend.