Video: 2025 Freddie March Memorial Trophy full race | Goodwood Revival

Dedicated to the cars that would have raced in the Goodwood Nine Hour races from 1952 to 1955, the Freddie March Memorial Trophy allows us to imagine what it must have been like to experience a truly incredible time for endurance racing. Very few motorsport grids have quite so many beautiful cars, creations like the Aston Martin DB3S, Jaguar C-type and Ferrari 500 TRC. There’s a delightful reminder that this was a time where small-time engineers, mechanics and businesses would get to work creating something to put up against the big boys of motor racing.

When it comes to drivers, this year’s Freddie March Memorial Trophy featured a gentleman who’s quite well known in the motor racing world: Jenson Button. Yes, the 2009 Formula 1 world champion has traded Californian sunshine for a weekend of showers and oversteer at Goodwood. Piloting his own Jaguar C-type, a car believed to have been raced by Juan Manuel Fangio, Jenson was up against Goodwood regulars like Tiff Needell, Nick Padmore, Will Nuthall, Simon Hadfield, Chris Ward and Sam Hancock, to name but a few. 

The race got underway as the sun began to set on Friday evening, with a certain Mr Bill Shepherd in the Ford Thunderbird ‘Battlebird’ getting a simply excellent start. As the field stormed around the Motor Circuit, headlights ablaze, those with a weight advantage made the most of their additional pace through the corners, while others with more grunt made their moves on the long Lavant Straight and into the entry of Woodcote corner. Then, with 15 minutes to go, the rain came and the on-track battles intensified, making for a tense and unpredictable finish.

Here is the race in its entirety for your viewing pelasure.