Mitchel Godden
| Born | 13 February 1975 Pembury, England |
|---|---|
| Nationality | English |
| Individual honours | |
| 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011 | British Sand Ace Championship Winner |
| 1999, 2003, 2005, 2009 | British Best Pairs Championship Winner |
| 2001, 2003, 2008, 2012,2021 | South-Eastern Centre Championship Winner |
| 1999 | Southern Centre Championship Winner |
| 2018 | Pokal Bergring Cup Winner |
| 2007,2009,2011 | MSC BadWalsee Wolfegg Winner |
| 2016 | Sidecars Super Series Winner 2021 & 2022 British Champion |
| Team honours | |
| 2015 | Team Long Track World Championship Winning Manager |
Mitchel Stuart Godden (born 13 February 1975) is an English motorcycle rider. He competes in longtrack and grasstrack racing for Solos (1992) and more recently 500cc Sidecars (2015). He is the son of Don Godden who won the Individual Speedway Long Track World Championship in 1969.
Mitchel Godden followed in his fathers footsteps and started racing in 1992. He started on a 250cc (ex Jeremy Doncaster) Honda red Rocket and rode this for one season before using Godden works 350cc machine and then after a couple of seasons progressed to 500cc class. Godden later progressed to international racing becoming a specialists on German grasstracks and Dutch sandtracks.
In 2015 after 23 years of racing at the very top level Godden went in to 500cc Sidecar racing and achieved immediate success in the UK and the continent soon after. With his passenger, Paul Smith, he has won international events in Werlte, Ludinghausen, Schwarme, Herxheim, Osnabrook, Hertingen, Berghaupten, Bielefeld, Rastede, Angenrod, Neuhasslau,(Germany) and Roden, Uithuizen, Joure, Stadskannal, Lopersum, Balkbrug, Staphorst & Eenrum in the Netherlands, and Tayac, La-Reole, StMacaire, in France, Zolder in Belgium amongst others.
In 2025 Team Godden / Smith became the first ever non Dutch team to win the KNMV Dutch open Sidecar Grasstrack Championships. An event dominated in recent years by the sidecar legend William Matthiessen from the Netherlands.