Six legendary single seaters to see at Revival

Ferrari 1512

In the year we’re celebrating 75 years of Ferrari, we can’t not have a few fandangos on the list. This is one of the prettiest, the 1512, the car that delivered John Surtees his 1964 Formula 1 World Championship and made him the only person in history with championships on both four wheels and two wheels. This diminutive little machine will be recognisable in red with blue wheels and with 12 throbbing trumpets up top and four howling exhausts out back, its 1.5-litre V12 filling our Motor Circuit with its song.

BRM P578 ‘Old Faithful’

In our celebration of Graham Hill at this year’s Goodwood Revival, there’s perhaps no more important F1 car not to miss, than his BRM P578, otherwise affectionately known as ‘Old Faithful’. On top of delivering both Hill and BRM championships 60 years ago in 1962, this P578 got its nickname from being one of the highest mileage cars in grand prix history, seeing action for a grand total of four years consecutively. It also holds particular significance with us given that its first win in 1962, was right here on our Motor Circuit.

BRM V16 Chassis 4

This is a big one, as the first of BRM’s V16 continuation cars. It got its debut at the Revival last yearm and this year it’ll be racing in the Goodwood Trophy. That 16-cylinder sound is going to be quite unlike anything else, even in a grid as spectacular as the Goodwood Trophy’s, which features ERAs, Bugattis, Maseratis, Alfa Romeos and more. It’s a car you won’t want to miss seeing and hearing in action at the Revival this weekend.

Ferrari 156 Sharknose

We debuted the recreated ‘Sharknose’ Ferraris a few years ago at the Festival of Speed presented by Mastercard and now we’ve got one in our spectacular display of significant Revival-era cars. The originals were scrapped in period following their 1961 championship-winning season, though key components – engine and transmission among them – were saved. These cars were subsequently rebuilt around the original parts, with painstaking research put into making them as representative and as original as possible to the Sharknoses of 1961. Truly stunning machines and enormously significant to the Scuderia as they symbolised the marque's move to the mid-engined layout per regulations for that year.

Lancia D50

The Lancia D50 is perhaps one of the strangest Formula 1 cars ever made, in its parentage and its execution. To explain, there are both Lancia and Ferrari D50s, with the rights to the car’s design and much of Scuderia Lancia’s assets being sold to Ferrari part way through the car’s lifespan. Vittorio Jano’s innovative original designs included a stressed engine and an off-centre engine positioning for better weight distribution. The most iconic D50 trait however is its pannier tanks. These bodywork elements hanging between the front and rear wheels make it unmistakable. Both a 1954 Lancia D50 and a 1956 Lancia-Ferrari D50 will feature at Revival 2022, the latter in the Ferrari 75^th anniversary parade.

Lotus 49

All Lotus 49s are incredibly special cars. It’s probably in the top five all-time great F1 cars if truth be told, but the Gold Leaf car that will be seen in the Graham Hill celebratory parade is special for its own reasons. Of course, Hill drove the Gold Leaf team to victory at Monaco in 1969 but this car has a latterday significance that’s perhaps understated. See, a model kit Lotus 49B gave a young Adrian Newey a taste for engineering and design. This is, in fact, Newey’s car, which he bought eight years ago at auction as if to come full circle on what has been a multi-era-defining F1 design career. It’s now one of his dearest possessions, which he’s raced at the Monaco historic and beyond. See him driving it at Revival in the Graham Hill parade.

Goodwood photography by Harry Elliott, Tom Shaxson, Michal Popisil and Steve Tarrant.

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