Motor Racing: This year’s 80th Members’ meeting at Goodwood in Sussex promises a host of vintage car classics

Join the Goodwood Road and Racing Club and secure your spot at this celebrated race meeting.

Advertisement feature: Glorious cars of yesteryear will take to the track at this year’s 80th Members’ meeting at Goodwood – and you could be there.

As well as a full programme of racing, the Members’ Meeting will be bringing history to life as it celebrates 75 years of motorsport.

The event, taking place on April 15 and 16, will feature all kinds of cars from classic tin-tops and GTs, to motorcycles and open wheeled Formula 3 and F1 machines, offering visitors a friendly and intimate atmosphere with no crowds, thanks to being exclusively available to GRRC Members and Fellowship.

A winning formula of spectacular cars, high-speed track demonstrations, fun-packed festivities and great entertainment; along with the very best food and drink is on offer. Joining the GRRC is the only way to become a full GRRC Member – but there’s a host of benefits and it means those attending the Members’ Meeting can enjoy a day free from crowds.

Tickets on sale now for a weekend of racing action, captivating demonstrations, off-track festivities and fireworks.

Here are a few of the highlights:

The Gordon Spice Trophy

This is Goodwood’s race for Group 1 Touring cars from 1972 to 1980 returns, but now with a brand new name. After eight years racing as the Gerry Marshall Trophy the race has been renamed in honour of Gordon Spice, who passed away in 2021. Spice was one of the greatest figures in touring car racing throughout the 1970s, and is closely linked with the Ford Capri, also a major star of this race.

Jim Clark TrophyThe Goodwood meeting this year marks 60 years since the launch of the iconic Lotus Cortina link to https://www.goodwood.com/grr/event-coverage/members-meeting/2022/11/30-lotus-cortinas-to-battle-for-jim-clark-trophy-at-80mm/ with a two-driver, 45-minute race for just the twin-cam legends. Double F1 champion Clark may be most famous for his exploits in single seaters, but his successes in the Cortina might, if anything, have been greater.

You could have pole position to watch history in action as one of Goodwood’s most famous cars takes to the track.

Clark won the British Saloon Car Championship in a Cortina, and won almost every circuit race he ever contested at the wheel of the Ford-built saloons. This race will be one not to miss, filled with VIP drivers and guaranteed to be a close tussle throughout.

S.F. Edge TrophyBack after a year’s break the fight for pre-war ‘specials’ is back for a pair of short, sharp sprints. These cars were first made back in the very early days of motoring, and raced on make-shift circuits around Britain over a century ago. Expect to see Goodwood legends including the Fiat S76 “Beast of Turin” and more do battle over a pair of five-lap sprints, one on Saturday, one on Sunday.

Threlfall CupIt wouldn’t really be an event at the Goodwood Motor Circuit without a little celebration of where all racing drivers begin their careers. In the case of the 80th Members’ Meeting that will be the Threlfall Cup, a race for front-engined Formula Junior cars. While the cars may look small the battles are normally close, with the drivers regularly battling in historic racing around the country.

Hailwood Trophy (feat. Sheene Trophy)The Members’ Meeting’s only bike race returns. This will be the third time the Hailwood Trophy has taken place at Goodwood, and sees 250cc and 350cc Grand Prix motorbikes from before 1984 racing alongside a fleet of Formula 750 bikes from before 1973. The overall winner will claim the Hailwood Trophy while the Sheene Trophy goes to the first four-stroke bike to cross the line.

The ‘greatest lap of Goodwood’ will be celebrated this year when the 80th Members’ Meeting showcases a blast from the past.

Trofeo NuvolariAnother returning favourite with a new name. This is the event for sportscars that raced before 1939 will this year celebrate the great Tazio Nuvolari. In 2023 it will be 90 years since the great Italian won the RAC Tourist Trophy, Le Mans 24 Hours and Mille Miglia in a single season.

This race should see cars from the likes of Alfa Romeo, Bugatti and Delahaye battling. As these are easily some of the most elegant racers ever to attack Le Mans it’s one that’s not to be missed.

Moss Trophy

There is surely no better way to remember “Mr Goodwood” himself than to race GT cars for the Moss Trophy. Reminiscent of the Revival’s Stirling Moss Memorial Trophy, this will see closed-cockpit GT cars from 1958-’62 racing, but over a shorter sprint. One driver per car, 20 minutes and a fleet of E-types, Cobras, TVRs, Austin Healeys and more this will evoke the spirit of the early RAC TTs at Goodwood.

Gurney CupAnother favourite of the Members’ Meeting. The Gurney Cup made its debut back at the 76th event, featuring the kinds of V8 machines that Dan himself would have raced around the globe back in the 1960s. At the 78th Members’ Meeting it was expanded into a 45-minute, two-driver race, one of our first ever two-driver races for prototypes, and saw drivers including Dario Franchitti battle in cars such as the Shelby Daytona Cobra, Ford GT40s, McLaren M1As and more.

For the 80th Members’ Meeting we will return to the format that went down so well in October 2021, for another 45-minute attack.

Tony Gaze TrophyTony Gaze was the World War Two fighter ace and racing driver who suggested to Freddie March – the current Duke of Richmond’s grandfather – that maybe the perimeter roads of the airfield would make a decent race track. To celebrate this monumental contribution to motorsport at Goodwood the Tony Gaze Trophy will be contested by the types of cars that raced between 1948 and 1954, the first flourishes of the Goodwood Motor Circuit’s racing life.

Salvadori CupThe final race on the list is one of the most beautiful, with sports-prototypes from the late 1950s racing head-to-head in the name of Le Mans winner Roy Salvadori. These cars were the ones that shaped the Le Mans 24 Hours as it emerged from its post-war period. Expect to see cars from Jaguar, Maserati, Tojeiro and more closing out an incredible weekend’s action on Sunday afternoon.

The GT1 Demo

And if those racing lineups haven’t got your heart racing then this car might. There will be a a spectacular demonstration of 1980s turbo F1 power, as the championship-winning Brabham BT52 performs a pair of stunning track demonstrations.

This impressive arrow-like BT52 – powered by a turbocharged 1.5-litre BMW inline four engine – is connected intrinsically with Goodwood’s “Testing Years” thanks to its fabled sub-minute lap. The story goes that when Brabham used the Goodwood Motor Circuit to test its brand new F1 machine, then driver and future F1 champion Nelson Piquet managed a lap in under one minute. This has since been labelled the “greatest lap of Goodwood” and forms a mythical part of the history of not just Brabham, but of Goodwood itself.

Find out more and buy tickets

If you’re not already a member, then you can join the and purchase tickets. As well as access to tickets for the headline Members’ Meeting event, the Goodwood Road and Racing Club community enjoy priority ticket access to tickets for Festival of Speed and Goodwood Revival, on event benefits, regular social events, welcome pack, and much more throughout the year. Joining the GRRC starts at just £79 annually.

Tickets for the Saturday were snapped up quickly, but there are still Sunday tickets available. For more information, or to purchase, visit ticketing.goodwood.com.