Top 5: Goodwood’s finest F1 non-championship races

1. 1960 Glover Trophy

Innes Ireland, above, had already beaten him in the F2 Lavant Cup. Now Stirling Moss found himself chasing Ireland, who was in a Lotus 18, in the main F1 race. “Moss had met his match, for always Ireland in the new Team Lotus car was ahead of the 1959 Walker Cooper,” read Motor Sport’s report. “Innes looked calm; Stirling was hard at work. Moss began to pile on the pressure but to no avail. He would close up on the Lotus’s tail at Lavant but Ireland, with notable consistency, would pull away down the straight and hold his advantage. At the finish the Lotus had 2.8sec in hand, having averaged 100.3mph, a race record. Moss had lapped fractionally quicker, establishing a new lap record of 102.13mph. A great race!” By Monaco, Moss had his own Type 18, in Walker blue, to score Lotus’s first points-paying F1 win. The Goodwood race had marked a change in the F1 world order.

2. 1954 Richmond Trophy

Having twice been denied victories earlier in the day, Roy Salvadori, above, trailing, found his Maserati 250F behind the oil-spraying BRM V16 of Ken Wharton, above, leading. On the penultimate lap, Salvadori made a lunge resulting in contact. Both cars spun and restarted, only for Salvadori’s Maserati to destroy its clutch. Wharton took the win but with a face like thunder. Salvadori’s Gilby team protested because BRM had swapped Wharton and Ron Flockhart between its cars but the result stood.

3. 1955 Glover Trophy

Salvadori, above, trailing, was back for a ‘spin and win’ in ’55. Pitched as an all-Maserati duel between ‘Salvo’ and Moss, above, leading, the former’s Gilby Engineering 250F had a clear performance edge, only for Roy to seemingly hand Stirling the win with a spin at the chicane on lap two. Salvadori charged on to Moss’s tail and stormed past at Madgwick as Moss began to slow with fuel feed trouble. Roy, credited with the quote, “Give me Goodwood on a summer’s day and you can keep the rest,” had his third win of the day.

4. 1956 Glover Trophy

Motor Sport billed this as “a magnificent ding-dong battle” between Mike Hawthorn’s BRM, Moss’s Maserati, above, and the remarkable Archie Scott Brown, who almost won for Connaught on his F1 debut. Defying severe disability that affected his legs, and without fingers on his right hand, Scott Brown was sensational. He led Moss for 16 laps despite failing brakes until a broken crankshaft caused a spin. Meanwhile, Hawthorn had a lucky escape when he was thrown from his BRM which then overturned.

5. 1965 Sunday Mirror Trophy

In 1964, a young Jackie Stewart had scored a runaway victory in the Formula Junior race. Now here he was, lined up against Jim Clark, above, Graham Hill and Dan Gurney. Stewart ran third behind Gurney, only to stop on lap 38 with a broken engine – after he’d scorched to a new lap record of 1min 20.4sec. Then in the closing stages, race winner Clark matched the time to the tenth. The two Scots would share the record for ever after, for this was Goodwood’s last contemporary F1 race.