Five things you have to see at the Goodwood Revival this weekend

The Goodwood Revival is a three-day festival celebrating the best of British motorsport from the 1940s through the 1960s. This means it takes in some of the coolest motorsport cars that have ever existed.

It also takes in lots of excellent tweed. Perhaps all of the tweed. Racing and tweed, then, is what you’ve got.

Joking aside, the Revival is a spectacular display of everything that is right about this portion of automotive history. Since 1998, it has morphed into the world’s largest historic motor racing and vintage culture show, with nearly 150,000 people – all dressed in period attire – turning up each year.

It’s held, of course, at the Goodwood circuit – just round the corner from Lord March’s hill, which hosts the excellent Festival of Speed – and includes things like multi-million pound Ferraris and Astons going wheel-to-wheel in close proximity, the chance to see legends of the sport still doing what they love, and some aircraft thrown in for good measure.

Among other things this year, there’ll be a tribute to McLaren founder Bruce McLaren, and a 50th anniversary celebration of Shelby’s world title. We’ll have lots more from the Revival for you, but here are five things you absolutely must see if you’re going down.

Surely one of the coolest Maseratis ever built, no? This little 1960s racer will take part in the Sussex Trophy over the weekend. It’s one of just 22 Tipo 61s in existence, so keep an eye out for it.

The chance to see these Group 7 Can-Am monsters slug it out between each other is worth the ticket price alone.

Come Sunday afternoon, a field of classic Jags, Cobras and Ferraris will take to the circuit in a two-hour mega-battle in the RAC Tourist Trophy, which, in Goodwood’s words, celebrates “the race’s heyday between 1960 and ‘64”. Unmissable.

The greatest racing driver to never win an F1 championship, a five-time Le Mans winner, and another GP and Le Mans hero will all be on hand over the weekend.

Yep, Moss, Bell and Mass are scheduled to appear at the Revival, along with other luminaries including Dario Franchitti, Can-Am champ Jackie Oliver, Mr Le Mans himself, Tom Kristensen, Aston ace Darren Turner, touring car heroes Matt Neal, Jason Plato and Gordon Shedden, and former F1 driver Geido van der Garde.

Talk of this period of motorsport enough and you’ll naturally gravitate towards Aston Martin.

The 102-year old British marque will bring down the gorgeous DB4 GT – again, worth the ticket price alone – along with the DB5 Coupe, DBS, a host of sports cars from the era (including the DBR2) and the new DB9 GT Bond Edition.

Pass the deerstalker. We’re in.