Jim Clark to be celebrated at 2025 Goodwood Revival

This year’s Goodwood Revival will pay tribute to Jim Clark, on the 60th anniversary of the Scottish driver’s second Formula 1 world championship title.

Cars from the two-time world champion’s career will be joined by family, friends, fellow drivers and team members during the event that takes place on 12-14 September this year.

Clark’s 1965 season is widely considered to be his greatest, as he took six victories for Team Lotus to defeat Graham Hill and reclaim the World Championship, also winning the Indianapolis 500. He remains the only driver in history to claim both accolades in the same year.

There’s a direct link to Goodwood too, as he won the final F1 race at the circuit in 1965.

Six decades after his death in a tragic accident in a Formula 2 race at Hockenheim at the age of 32, Clark still holds the record for the most ‘Grand Slams’ — a driver taking pole position, victory, fastest lap, and leading every lap — in F1 with eight. Lewis Hamilton has six to date in a career that so far includes 360 grand prix starts.

Until his death in 1968, Clark had scored 25 victories and 33 poles in only 72 grands prix.

Clark’s prodigious record across different series will be recognised in the cars that gather for the celebration. The line-up will comprise of grand prix winners — certain to include at least one Lotus 25, which he drove in both world championship-winning years, as well as additional Lotuses from his Formula 2 career.

There will also be sports cars, which could include the Jaguar D-type in which he started his career, as well as those he raced at Le Mans, while Clark’s 1964 British Saloon Car Championship victory is likely to be marked by one of more Lotus Cortinas.

“Jim Clark was not only a first-class racer, but he was a first-class friend,” three-time world champion and joint Goodwood lap record holder Sir Jackie Stewart said.

“Jimmy and I enjoyed so much camaraderie both on and off the track and I am personally so pleased that Goodwood are choosing to celebrate this great man in this way.”