Tony Kanaaan, Dario Franchitti, Marino Franchitti and Scott Dixon.

Photos by Jonathan Sharp

Goodwood Revival, September 12-14 2025

As Jonathan Sharp’s photos began to arrive here, we noticed something different; the smiles that were so dominant at previous Goodwood Festivals and the Revival were not as abundant. There were many, to be sure, like the group shot above, exuding good cheer, but many not.

We asked Sharp why this might be, or was it just coincidence? Probably the weather, he said. “On Saturday and Sunday and I was in the pits for the driver’s shots during the pouring rain during the RAC TT Celebration on Sunday afternoon, after all, wouldn’t you feel just a bit stressed if you had to driver a 400 bhp Cobra flat out in a monsoon? Because at the Revival, boy do they race!”

Not everyone can be Gene Kelly in the rain. “Lets face it nobody, whether they be an ex F1 champion, a Le Mans winner, or an Indy 500 champ wants to damage somebody else’s multimillion £ racing car, so the drivers take the responsibility very highly. The element of fun is still there but probably more evident in their faces in the shots I took in the sun on Friday,”

We’ve provided a few links from other years after the last photo.

Rowan Atkinson, He drive a Jaguar MKVII in the St Mary’s Trophy

Jim Thorpe. I took the shot just after he had stepped out of the Bizzarrini to hand over to Pirro having driven it in what could best be described as a monsoon during the RAC TT Celebration race.

You too would look like this if you had just raced a Bizzarrini during a monsoon (RAC TT Celebration)

Karun Chandhok

Max Chilton

Julian Majzub

Andy Priaulx

Emanuele Pirro

Matt Neal, British Touring Car ace is checking to see if it has stopped raining. It had not.

Dario Franchitti

Dario Franchitti ready to go.

Romain Dumas

Dumas with Steve Soper

Jake Hill, 2024 British Touring Car Champion.

Alex Brundle

Darren Turner, works Aston Martin driver.

Tom Ingram, 2022 British Touring Car Champion.

Tom Kristensen

Tom Kristensen with Jimmie Johnson

Tom Kristensen and Johnson, take two.

Scott Dixon, New Zealand, 2008 Indy 500 winner

Andre Lotterer

Tony Kanaan, Indy 500 winner 2013

Jenson Button, 2009 World Champion

Jenson Button

Button to Tom Ingram. Put that damn thing away!

Jacques Villeneuve, 1997 World Champion

Jacques Villeneuve, ready to go.

Here’s a very brief selection of Jonathan Sharp’s Goodwood Drivers from previous year:

Drivers at the Goodwood FOS 2024

Goodwood Revival: Drivers

Goodwood Revival 2021, Part 1

Goodwood Driver’s Gallery

We endured most types of weather over the weekend but thankfully the snow that carpeted the drivers club was fake!

Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp

As the Revival is so much more than an historic car race meeting I thought I would start with shots that do not actual include a racing car or race. But following the atmosphere shots below, we’ll present a few photos of some of the drivers at Goodwood this year.

James Wood, 1952 Ferrari 375 Grant Piston Ring Special, Ferrari 75th anniversary parade

Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp

The multiple joys of Goodwood; in addition to the practice sessions and the 16 races held over three days, the spectators could also enjoy a parade of in excess of 100 Austin Sevens each morning in celebration of the humble baby Austin’s centenary. A parade in commemoration of the late great Graham Hill, it being sixty years since he won his first Formula One World Championship, and a parade in celebration of 75 years of Ferrari.