What is the Stirling Moss Memorial Trophy?

The Stirling Moss Memorial Trophy hosts a grid of closed-cockpit GT cars that raced before 1963, the likes of which Moss would have frequently raced to victory at the Goodwood Motor Circuit. Just looking at this field can take your breath away, but as stunning as they are, these cars are not afraid to get stuck in. This is a race known to deliver great competition.

Moss was one of the nation’s best drivers, with over 200 race wins to his name, before a crash at Goodwood in 1962 caused a premature end to his career behind the wheel. He started out in British Formula 3 in 1948 but competed in multiple disciplines throughout the ‘50s. A Formula 1 debut came in 1951 with HW Motors before driving for the likes of Daimler, Maserati, Vandervell and the Rob Walker Racing Team — his first win came at the 1955 British Grand Prix at Aintree in a Mercedes W196.

In sportscars, Moss picked up wins at the Sebring 12 Hours in 1954 and ’57 and both the Mille Miglia and Targa Florio in 1955. Alongside Peter Collins he took a class victory at the 1956 Le Mans 24 Hours, the pair driving a David Brown-entered Aston Martin DB3S to second place overall. Moss also earned multiple wins at the Nürburgring and Goodwood, where he won the RAC TT four times consecutively in 1958, ’59, ‘60 and ‘61 to become the only driver in history to win the race seven times.

But the car Moss loved the most was the Ferrari 250 SWB. He praised its speed, balance and reliability, and no wonder; he won seven of the eight races he entered with it in the early 1960s — retirement in the last event curtailed a perfect record.

It’s this later phase of Moss’ career that his namesake contest celebrates. Ferrari 250 SWBs will dazzle on the Stirling Moss Memorial Trophy grid, as will Aston Martin DB4 GTs, AC Cobras and Jaguar E-types, perfectly reflecting the era in which Moss dominated the RAC TT at Goodwood.

Goodwood Motor Circuit was a place where Moss experienced great success and popularity, his driving style was perfectly matched to the high-speed track, so there could be nothing more fitting than there being a race here named after him.

What had previously been known as the Kinrara Trophy was renamed The Stirling Moss Memorial Trophy in 2020. After the legendary driver’s passing earlier that year, it was a fitting way to cement the legacy of such a close friend of Goodwood, immortalising him in the Revival race schedule.

This 45-minute, two-driver race delivers on both striking looks and gripping action with the added jeopardy of a mid-race driver swap. It’s always one of the best events of the weekend, and as we fondly remember the incomparable Sir Stirling Moss, and we can’t wait to see what this race throws up at the 2026 Goodwood Revival.

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Photography by Jayson Fong.