The central feature of the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed will celebrate 60 years of design and engineering by Professor Gordon Murray CBE.
The famous sculpture created each year by Gerry Judah in front of Goodwood House will showcase Murray’s six decades of innovative design, right up to the present-day cars from Gordon Murray Automotive (GMA). It will also provide a centrepoint for a daily celebration of Gordon’s career, coming to life with a fanfare and a collection of cars spanning his extensive race and road car career.
In addition, GMA will unveil an all-new road model in a world premiere at the Festival.
For six decades, Gordon Murray has been inspired and influenced by his lightweighting ethos, first as a technical director in Formula 1 at both Brabham and McLaren Racing, where he designed five championship-winning cars (1981, 1983, 1988, 1989 and 1990) before designing the legendary F1 at McLaren Cars Ltd. He went on to found Gordon Murray Design in 2007, later Gordon Murray Automotive.
In addition to the central-feature focal point, Gordon Murray Automotive will be represented all around the Festival, with road cars in the Supercar Paddock, a dedicated area charting Murray’s and the marque’s history, as well as a special activation on the cricket pitch.
Goodwood’s modern motor sport history has multiple links with Gordon Murray and Gordon Murray Automotive. In 1993, Murray attended the first Festival of Speed, where his McLaren F1 claimed the second-fastest time on the Hill. That same year, his Light Car Company-designed Rocket was spotted parked outside the Stables, to the surprise of the organisers. It was found to belong to George Harrison, who later drove it up the Hill and became a regular visitor to Goodwood over the years.
More recently, GMA has unveiled its new models at the Goodwood Members’ Meeting, including the public debut of the T.50 (2021), T.33 (2022), T.33 Spider (2023) and the global dynamic debut of the T.50s at the 81st Members’ Meeting (2024).
“For 60 years I have enjoyed the design and engineering challenge of pushing the boundaries of what’s possible – be that in racing or road cars,” said Murray. “The supercars that Gordon Murray Automotive builds today are inspired by every car I’ve designed, raced and owned. Lightweight design, innovative use of materials, the latest technologies and even bending the laws of physics come into all we do.”
The Duke of Richmond CBE said: “Gordon has been a part of the Festival of Speed since the very beginning and I’m delighted that he has chosen to celebrate his 60-year career here with us at Goodwood. His name is synonymous with engineering art and superlative automotive design, which has seen him triumph at the very pinnacle of motor sport with five World Championships and create the most coveted supercars.”
The Goodwood Festival of Speed 2025 is also set to host its biggest celebration of Formula 1 to date, as well as feature four-time World Superbike champion Carl Fogarty. Saturday tickets are now sold out for the Festival of Speed, with Thursday, Friday and Sunday tickets still remaining. Buy yours at goodwood.com.
