2025 Chichester Cup highlights | Goodwood Revival

Chichester Cup Official Practice

The sheer variety of machinery on track at the Revival makes this event a relentless stream of interest. There’s always something new to look at, as the front-engined Formula Junior cars of the Chichester Cup gave us our first view of open-wheel racing of the weekend.

Formula Junior was a regular fixture at Goodwood in period, and it remains so in more recent times with a regular showcase here at the Revival. This year the field is made up of cars from 1959 and 1960, representing almost as many manufacturers as there are places on the grid, 20 in all.

It’s a fascinating line-up that made for a brilliantly competitive Official Practice session that saw nine different marques make up the top ten on the grid. The entire field was very quickly up to speed, but it was the OSCA of Joe Colasacco who set the early pace, only to be overthrown by Stuart Roach in the Alexis Mk2.

Ray Mallock in his U2 Mk2 joined the battle for pole, and began pumping in the quick times, eventually extending his cushion at the front of the field to six tenths of a second. Roach held on to second place ahead of Adrian Russell in the Condor S2, Colasacco, Alex Morton and Horatio Fitz-Simon in an Apache.

It’s a close battle at the front of the field, which bodes well for what we’re sure will be an entertaining race when the Formula Juniors return for the Chichester Cup on Sunday morning.

Photography by Pete Summers and Toby Whales. 

Chichester Cup grid (Top 15)

What is the Chichester Cup?

The original Chichester Cup — named after the city that neighbours the Goodwood Motor Circuit — ran sporadically throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Most notably, it was a Formula 3 race in which Jackie Stewart claimed victory in 1964.

The likes of Jim Clark and John Surtees made their single-seater debuts in these sort of front-engined Formula Junior cars, and it’s these that make up the grid for the Revival’s Chichester Cup.

While it has been featured since the very first Revival in 1998, 2025 marks the contest’s return to the race list after a two-year absence. The Chichester Cup will feature some of the very earliest front-engined Formula Junior racers that competed through the late 1950s, and with such an illustrious past a win in the Chichester Cup means a lot to the drivers who enter this 20-minute race.

Witness them manage minimal grip as they hustle entry-level Lotuses, Brabhams and Cooper single-seaters around the track.

When is the Chichester Cup?

Chichester Cup action will make its return to the Motor Circuit on Friday, with a 20-minute Official Practice session to determine the starting grid taking place at 14:50. The race itself is the opening event on Sunday, kicking off the final day of racing bright and early at 09:35.

Previous winners of the Chichester Cup 

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Photography by Toby Whales.