2025 Sussex Trophy preview | Goodwood Revival

07th May 2025

Adam Wilkins

Roy Salvadori was the first winner of the Sussex Trophy when he took the chequered flag aboard a Cooper T41 in September 1956. That race was for sports and racing cars up to 1.5 litres.

For subsequent years the race took on a number of different forms – variously as a race for sportscars up to 1.1 litres and, for the final few years up to 1966, as a multi-class GT race featuring the likes of the AC Cobra and Ferrari 250 GTO.

In the Revival era, the Sussex Trophy has run for all but one year. For World Championship sportscars of a type that raced from 1955-60, it most closely resembles the 1958 running of the race. The 25-minute race will feature Lotus 15s, Lister Knobblys and Lola Mk1s.

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Previous winners of the Sussex Trophy

Year	Driver(s)	Car
2024	Smith/Bryant	Lotus-Climax 15
2023	Oliver Bryant	Lotus-Climax 15
2022	James Cottingham	Tojeiro-Jaguar
2021	James Cottingham	Tojeiro-Jaguar
2019	Roger Willis	Lotus-Climax 15
2018	Phil Keen	Lister-Jaguar Knobbly
2017	Sam Hancock	Ferrari 246S Dino
2016	Chris Ward	Lister-Jaguar Costin
2015	Bobby Verdon-Roe	Ferrari 246S Dino
2014	Keen/Minshaw	Lister-Jaguar Knobbly
2013	Anthony Reid	Jaguar D-Type ‘long-nose’
2012	Julian Majzub	Sadler-Chevrolet Mk3
2011	Alex Buncombe	Lister-Jaguar Costin
2010	Jamie McIntyre	Lister-Chevrolet Knobbly
2008	Jamie McIntyre	Lister-Chevrolet Knobbly
2007	Jean-Marc Gounon	Aston Martin DBR2
2006	Gary Pearson	Jaguar D-Type ‘long-nose’
2005	Gary Pearson	Lister-Jaguar Knobbly
2004	Julian Bronson	Kister-Jaguar Knobbly
2003	Tony Dron	Ferrari 246S Dino
2002	Tony Dron	Ferrari 246S Dino
2001	Tony Dron	Ferrari 246S Dino
2000	Danny Sullivan	Lotus-Climax 15
1999	Gary Pearson	Lister-Jaguar Knobbly
1998	Robert Brooks	Lotus-Climax 15

Photography by Pete Summers and Jordan Butters.

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