Ultimate Guide to Goodwood 2025: Festival of Speed and more!

Dress your best and rev your engines because Goodwood’s events are back for yet another year of entertainment. Renowned as England’s greatest sporting estate, its extensive list of events throughout the year make it a highlight on the Engage calendar. From car fanatics to horse racing enthusiasts this West Sussex estate has something for everyone. Here at Engage, we take a look at Goodwood’s 2025 events as well as all of the fantastic hospitality options that Engage offer!

After a brilliant weekend at Goodwood Revival 2024 celebrating historic motor racing, iconic fashion, immersive experiences and much more, it comes to an end for another year. Here at Engage, it was our pleasure helping you to find the best place to watch the action. We had a brilliant time and we hope you will be back for more in 2025!

You may want to try a different Goodwood event or just want to stick with Goodwood Revival 2025? Either way, we have got you covered providing the best seats in the house for you to watch all of the Goodwood action!

Goodwood Festival of Speed 2025

First up on the Goodwood 2025 events calendar is the Goodwood Festival of Speed. This famous weekend attracts car fanatics from all over the country and is a brilliant event that can be enjoyed by all. Meet the stars of Formula 1, WRC and MotoGP as they all come together with nonstop events all weekend.

Highlights of Goodwood Festival of Speed include the famous Hillclimb race, the Forest Rally Stage and the Off-Road Arena. However, it’s not just motorsports on show, explore the delicious cuisine, fabulous exhibits as well as the world-renowned Red Arrows often making an appearance.

With plenty of activities throughout, it is the perfect weekend for everyone to enjoy. Taking place in the middle of July, come along to this beautiful West Sussex estate and immerse yourself in the action, spectating some of the most astonishing machinery ever made.

Qatar Goodwood Festival

More of a horse racing fan? Perhaps Qatar Goodwood Festival 2025 is more your piece of cake. Taking place from the 29th July until the 2nd August 2025, globally known as ‘Glorious Goodwood’ is one of the highlights in the flat racing season. This iconic five day festival offers scintillating racing, excellent hospitality and fabulous fashion with visitors encouraged to dress in a smart and elegant way depending on your hospitality enclosure.

With a brilliant array of fashion on show, racing fans from all over the UK will assemble at the famous estate and stake their bets on the horses at the beautiful Goodwood Racecourse. Action will be spread over five days with a non-stop timetable of thrilling action.

Famous winners include Ryan Moore, Frankie Dettori, Andrea Atzeni and more! Trust us, you don’t want to miss this! Check out Engage’s fantastic hospitality options for this exciting weekend in both The Long View and The Final Furlong serving delicious food, stunning atmospheres and the perfect view to see your favourites!

Goodwood Revival 2025

Don’t worry if you missed Goodwood Revival this time around, it will be back once again in September 2025 with Engage offering even more hospitality in order to make your good weekend outstanding!

From old-fashioned motorcars to historic air displays, indulge in the action and delve into British history with everyone taking part in the historic theme. Embracing the style from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, visitors wear clothes from that era with famous faces on show to celebrate and encourage the vintage manner.

With some of the most iconic names from the past taking part the festival lasts 3 days, as racing cars from the 1950s and 1960s have been driven by the likes of Sir Stirling Moss, John Surtees, Damon Hill, Martin Brundle and more.

After what was another fantastic 2024 event, the 2025 event is expected to be even better! So why not check out Engage’s amazing hospitality options once again including Salvadori Pavilion, Goodwood Mess, Commanding Officers Table and Officers’ Club.

So whether you want to enjoy the cars and glamour of the mid-20th century, revel in a five day festival of modern machinery or spectate some spectacular flat-racing, Goodwood is just the place for you! Check out Engage’s fantastic hospitality options for each event including Goodwood Festival of Speed, Qatar Goodwood Festival and Goodwood Revival in 2025!

Competitive rivalries

While the ambition to win as many titles as possible was undoubtedly the primary goal fuelling Hamilton’s success, it’s fair to say that he may not have been pushed to perform at his very best without the various rivalries he’s shared on the track.

Throughout different periods of his career, Hamilton has been involved in intense conflicts with the likes of Vettel, Rosberg and Verstappen. In fact, the 2016 season that saw Rosberg take the crown ahead of Hamilton culminated in a monumental final battle in Abu Dhabi, before the German surprisingly announced his retirement.

In recent years, Hamilton has enjoyed a rivalry with Verstappen, who has established himself as the world’s best by winning the last three F1 titles. The pair have engaged in countless clashes and their competitiveness resulted in a contentious crash at the 2021 British Grand Prix.

What is the Goodwood Festival of Speed?

Are you a motorsports fan? Do you have a passion for cars past and present? Or are you just an adrenaline junkie who loves speed and sound? If you said yes to any of these questions, we have just the place for you.

On Thursday 11th July 2024, the annual Goodwood Festival of Speed will be returning once again. An action packed weekend that car lovers will thrive in, with multiple events and action areas for any motorsport fanatic.

What to expect?

Goodwood Festival of Speed is an annual motorsports festival located at Goodwood Motor Circuit in Chichester. It is a jam-packed weekend featuring modern and historic motorcars as well as a range of different events including a hill climb race, air displays, rally events and much more. It will take place from the 11th to the 14th July and is sure to have something for everyone whether you are a diehard motorsport fan or not.

Each year, a new theme for the festival is announced associated with the motoring industry, and this year it’s no different. The theme for 2024 is ‘Horseless to Hybrid- Revolutions in Power’ which will celebrate the evolution of motorcars and how they have developed through the years from the first ‘horseless’ carriage to the sustainable, more environmentally friendly cars today.

Sustainability will be the main focus of the weekend from the Hill Race to the many exhibits around the festival. The event that Goodwood is famous for is the well-renowned Hill Race attracting 1000s of spectators every year. It is unique to the festival and will see the cars battle it out in a time-trial styled event to be crowned ‘King of the Hill’.

Goodwood Hospitality

‘Action on the hill’

The Hillclimb is the most iconic part of Goodwood and has been the centre of action since the festival’s inception in 1993. A winding 1.16 mile stretch that finishes at the top of the Goodwood hill, tests the limits of drivers of the utmost quality with Sunday Shootout winners including Sebastian Loeb, Jonathan Palmer and Martin Brundle.

Indy 500 Champ and former Formula 1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya exclaimed that it was the ‘narrowest, bumpiest, least grippy course I have ever driven. But I loved it’.

It was Marvin Kirchhöfer’s title in 2023 in his McLaren Solus GT. However, Max Chilton is the current record holder from 2022 with a blistering 39.08 seconds in a McMurtry Spéirling, over 2 seconds faster than the previous record held by Nick Heidfield in a McLaren MP4/13. Can anyone get near 39 seconds in 2024?

Something for all motorsport fans

What else is on? The Hillclimb is not the only scintillating part of the weekend, in fact there is something for all motorsport fans to enjoy. If you are a rally fan why not spectate the classic Forest Rally Stage as some of the best current rally drivers take on the gravel for the fastest time including cars ranging from modern WRC cars to the infamous Group B machines.

How about Goodwood Action Sports? This arena is perfect for adrenaline junkies showcasing BMX stunts, motocross jumps and more that will have you watching with one eye open!

Get the chance to meet your heroes and walk through the FOS pit-lane. You will be up close and personal with some of the best drivers in Formula 1, MotoGP and more. You will be within inches of modern F1 cars with Mercedes, Ferrari and McLaren in attendance. Don’t forget the classic Goodwood air displays including an epic show put on by the legendary Red Arrows and watch in awe as they paint the sky in their famous formation.

With this being only a small snippet of the entertainment on show and what to expect it’s safe to say you will not be short of things to do and see.

Goodwood Festival of Speed is easily one of the best motorsport events of the year in the UK with thousands of fans flocking from all over the country to the South Coast for an exhilarating weekend of some of the most impressive machines the 21st century has to offer.

For motoring enthusiasts and anyone interested in getting involved with the automobile industry, you just can’t miss this. Check out Engage’s range of hospitality options for the Festival of Speed as well as the Goodwood Revival at the start of September.

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