It’s interesting how things evolve. While I have had no personal experience with the Invicta marque there has always been...
This car, which ran as the Multi-Union and was quite modern in look, was actually built up from an Alfa...
Over the last 27 years, the Italian Car Day at the Brooklands Museum (May 4, 2013) has grown to become not only the UK’s top event for owners and admirers of all things Italian, but also the largest gathering of Italian cars in the country. Anyone arriving in any Italian...
The 1931 side-valve Minor was fitted with a brand-new 847-cc engine, designed by Leonard Lord, and was intended to compete...
After the First World War and into the ’20s, many car manufacturers throughout Europe became involved in Grand Prix racing....
Patriotic Races “It is my melancholy duty to inform you officially that, in consequence of a persistence by Germany of her invasion of Poland, Great Britain has declared war upon her, and that, as a result, Australia is also at war.” With those words, uttered by Australian Prime Minister Robert...
Hundreds of classic and contemporary Aston Martin sports and luxury vehicles are expected to descend upon Brooklands Museum this weekend...
Mark Donohue Bruce McLaren 1 “Big Daddy” Don Garlits becomes the first dragracer to run the 1/4 mile at more...
100 years to the day since the first race win for a Bentley, the winning car itself – known as EXP2 – returned to the famous Brooklands Racetrack in Surrey yesterday to lead a cavalcade of 3-Liter Bentleys to celebrate the centenary of its victory. EXP2 is the oldest Bentley...
Glorious weather blessed the 60th Anniversary Bentley Drivers Club weekend at Silverstone on August 8-9, a meeting first held in...
Just 35 miles away from the fabled Brooklands race circuit where eight decades ago this single-seat racing Bentley astonished spectators...
To write this column I am taking time off from completing my contribution to a book. I need to take time off because I am facing one of the words I dread most – it is “Brooklands.” Brooklands haunts me. As an Englishman, I am supposed to know about cricket....
The fifth annual Motorsport Festival at the Brooklands Museum in Weybridge, Surrey, England, scheduled for Sunday, October 11, will for...
Bonus Photo Gallery from the Brooklands Double Twelve Motorsport Festival, held June 17, 2015....
Entries have opened for the 2016 Brooklands Double Twelve Motorsport Festival, organized by Brooklands Museum and the Vintage Sports Car Club. The two-day event, scheduled for June 18-19, will follow the well-established format of three separate competitive events — Speed Trials, Driving Tests and Concours d’Élégance — with aggregate scores...
Brooklands Museum and the Vintage Sports Car Club (VSCC) have confirmed preliminary details of the 2014 Brooklands Double Twelve Motorsport...
Eighty years ago today, October 7, 1935, John Cobb climbed aboard the Napier-Railton Special and lapped the famous banked circuit...
Japan Tobacco International (JTI) has donated the freehold of the 30-acre Brooklands Museum site in Weybridge to the Museum’s governing Trust, after a 25-year tenancy during which the Museum became established as one of the most important cultural destinations in the UK. During a special ceremony at which a plaque...
The famed Brooklands Musuem has announced that It’s time to ‘Get back behind the wheel’ as Surrey’s most famous historical...
Brooklands Museum’s restoration of the original Brooklands Finishing Straight and the re-instatement of the Paddock Scoreboard was awarded a rare...
Brooklands, the world’s first purpose-built motor racing facility, will turn 100 this year. Mercedes-Benz UK, which has done extensive development on the grounds of the famed British track, will help promote the Brooklands Centenary Festival. The festival will kick off with a Grand Centenary Ball on June 15 at the...
Brooklands Museum, the home of British motor racing, is celebrating the life of one of the UK’s greatest racing drivers,...
The annual Italian Car Day at Brooklands is billed as the largest such gathering in the United Kingdom and the...
On the weekend of June 17-18, Brooklands, the first motor racing circuit in the world, celebrated the 110th anniversary of its first race meeting. The most significant element of the celebration was the official opening of the restored Start-Finish Straight, which had been beneath a building since World War II....
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In a world first, England’s Concours of Elegance on the grounds of Windsor Castle this September 2-4, will feature cars...
Brooklands and Donington are two names that conjure up the halcyon days of British motor racing. Brooklands, near Weybridge in Surrey, was the world’s first purpose-built enclosed motor circuit, constructed in 1907. Donington Park, at Castle Donington in Derbyshire, was the first purpose-built road-racing circuit in the UK, opened in...
In modern Formula One terms, the young driver Max Verstappen is creating a storm in the motor racing press due...
Dario Resta competed in the first race ever held on Britain’s hallowed Brooklands circuit on July 6, 1907, and died...
February 2011 During the J.C.C. International Trophy race at Brooklands, U.K., on May 6, 1939, Kenneth Evans is shown at full speed in his Alfa Romeo Tipo B P3 Grand Prix car, leaving a great wall of spray behind him. He would finish 4th, one lap down to Prince Bira’s winning...