Previous winners of the Sussex Trophy

03rd March 2026

Adam Wilkins

The Sussex Trophy has been a Goodwood Revival fixture ever since the event was inaugurated in 1998. Indeed, it was the opening race of that very first weekend. The late Robert Brooks has his place in history as the first ever Revival winner, and what a memorable victory it was.

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Brooks’ ex-Graham Hill Lotus 15 was brushed by the Lister-Jaguar of Frank Sytner, but despite the Lister’s greater power, Brooks kept Sytner honest, bodywork flailing from his car after that startline contact. A race-long duel ended in Brooks’ favour, and it set the tone for the close competition that has characterised Goodwood ever since.

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In the subsequent years since, the Sussex Trophy has on occasion run as a two-driver race. Tony Dron scored three wins in as many consecutive years in the early part of the new millennium, while James Cottingham and Oliver Bryant have scored numerous wins between in more recent editions.

As for machinery, either a British or Italian car has won every Sussex Trophy — all besides one occasion in 2012, when Julian Majzub brought the American Sadler across the line first.

Previous winners of the Sussex Trophy

Year	Driver(s)	Car
2025	Chris Ward	Jaguar D-Type ‘long-nose’
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

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Photography by Pete Summers and Nick Dungan.