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Stirling Moss Memorial Trophy highlights

The Stirling Moss Memorial Trophy often boils down to a shootout between brutal Shelby Cobras and lithe Jaguar E-types, and at the 2025 Goodwood Revival that’s exactly what we saw play out. Matthew Holme took an early lead into the first corner in the Cobra he was sharing with Andrew Jordan.

He didn’t hold it for long though, as Richard Kent made his way past on the first lap (he would later hand his E-type over to Chris Ward). The leaders soon settled into two E-types sandwiching the Cobra, James Cottingham taking third place in the E-type he’d later share with Oliver Bryant. 

A red flag caused by a rolling Austin-Healey 3000 brought the pack back together and Kent led Cottingham at the restart with Jordan having been relegated to fourth place. He was on a charge, though, and soon made his way up to third place.

The mixed weather that has characterised this year’s Revival played the rain card which favoured the tamer E-types. Jordan ran wide in the Cobra, but soon started gaining the time back. Fortune then played into the hands of the Cobra with both E-type challengers retiring on the final lap.

Andrew Jordan took the victory followed by Dario Franchitti who had co-driven with Gregor Fisken. The Yelmer Buurman/Alexander van der Lof Ferrari 250 GT SWB completed the top three.

Stirling Moss Memorial Trophy Official Practice

Official practice for the Stirling Moss Memorial Trophy got underway under constant threat of rain — dark clouds surrounded the circuit as drivers headed out to set their first lap times of the weekend ahead of the race on Saturday evening.

It was Olly Bryant and James Cottingham at the wheel of their 1962 who set the early pace, with Andrew Jordan quick to put on a show in hot pursuit, pushing his Shelby Cobra hard enough to cock a front wheel in the hope of finding an extra tenth or two. Gordon Shedden, also in an E-type, was looking to find time in every spare centimetre of the Circuit.

At the halfway mark of the 20-minute session, Chris Ward propelled his E-type up to second behind Jordan, a front row duo that remained unchanged for the rest of the session. Further back the starting positions kept changing as the lap times continued to tumble. With six minutes to go the first umbrellas of the session started to go up and the Aston Martin DB4 GT of Max and Tom Chilton took a minor excursion through the gravel at Lavant, marking an end to a run of small improvements across the field.

Photography by Pete Summers.

Stirling Moss Memorial Trophy grid (Top 15)

What is the Stirling Moss Memorial Trophy?

Moss was a frequent competitor — and winner — at the Goodwood Motor Circuit in period, his fluent driving style was well suited to the high-speed layout and his popularity here was unmatched. His subsequent appearances at the Revival when Goodwood reopened its gates were equally well received, but he became immortalised here following his death in 2020.

The Stirling Moss Memorial Trophy is a race for pre-1963 closed-cockpit GT cars, the kind of cars that the great man himself raced to victory numerous times around the Goodwood Motor Circuit. Aston Martin DB4 GTs and Ferrari 250 SWBs are joined by AC Cobras and Jaguar E-types.

It’s a race that always delivers plenty of great action on track, but to be honest it wouldn’t matter if these cars were all just parked up on the grid, it would still be an absolutely breathtaking sight.

It was first run in 2016 as the Kinrara Trophy, but it was renamed the Stirling Moss Memorial Trophy ahead of the 2020 Revival.  Regularly referred to as the most beautiful race of the Revival weekend, what better way to remember one of Britain’s greatest ever racing drivers?

When is the Stirling Moss Memorial Trophy?

Official Practice for the Stirling Moss Memorial Trophy gets underway on Friday at 14:10, a 30-minute session for the drivers to both get to grips with their machines and set the quickest time they can to qualify for the race itself. The flag will drop for this 45-minute showpiece at 17:35 on Saturday evening.

Previous winners of the Stirling Moss Memorial Trophy

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Photography by Jordan Butters and Toby Whales.