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:
Great driver pictures! A story about Jacques Villeneuve. In 1976, I was chief of timing and scoring at the track at Gimli, Manitoba, Canada. The Formula Atlantic series raced there for a few years in the 1970’s. Gilles Villeneuve (father of Jacques, if that needs to be said) won in 1975, on a very rainy, very cold day. The next year was very hot. Gilles won again. After the race, I was wandering around in the paddock, and came across Gilles washing his motorhome. Jacques, 5 years old at the time, was pestering his father, as kids do. As I passed by, Gilles called out “Here’s $5. Can you take my kid for an ice cream so I can finish this?” And that was how I took a future Indy 500 winner and future World Drivers Champion (Not to mention driver of the Hairy Canary Cobra in the RAC Tourist Trophy at Goodwood) for an ice cream cone at a little race track in a small town in the middle of Canada.