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.

The Revival tribute will also bring together an extraordinary line-up from what many regard as the greatest season in the history of the series.

A centrepiece will be the unprecedented gathering of the “1965 4” – the quartet of Lotus cars that defined his remarkable year.

In 1965, he claimed the Formula 1 title in the Lotus 25, swept to the Formula 2 title in the Lotus 35, dominated the Tasman Series in the Lotus 32B, and made history at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway by winning the Indy 500 in the Lotus 38 – the first victory at the Brickyard for a rear-engined car.

These four machines have never before been seen together, making their appearance at Goodwood a historic moment in itself.

While it’s not yet confirmed whether the Lotus 25, 35 and 32B will take to the track, the Lotus 38 certainly will — with fellow Scottish Indy 500 winner Dario Franchitti at the wheel.

1965 was a season unlike any other for Clark. He began the year in January in New Zealand and Australia, winning four of the eight Tasman races to take the title against top international opposition.

From there, his campaign became a dizzying blur of continents and championships: Formula 1 races across Europe, Formula 2 events squeezed into the gaps, and a springtime detour to America to take on the month of May at Indianapolis.

That trip produced a landmark victory in the Lotus 38, leading 190 of 200 laps to beat the US specialists at their own game.

Back in Europe, he continued to dominate in F1, winning six of the first seven championship rounds he contested to seal his second world title with three races to spare.

Even with the relentless travel, he still found time to clinch the French and British F2 crowns, underlining his mastery of every discipline he tackled.

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.”