Hundreds of classic and contemporary Aston Martin sports and luxury vehicles are expected to descend upon Brooklands Museum this weekend...
Brooklands Museum, the home of British motor racing, is celebrating the life of one of the UK’s greatest racing drivers,...
The 1931 side-valve Minor was fitted with a brand-new 847-cc engine, designed by Leonard Lord, and was intended to compete directly with the Austin 7. The new engine was offered with the outgoing OHC unit until 1932, with Morris having to work hard to convince buyers to specify the newer...
100 years to the day since the first race win for a Bentley, the winning car itself – known as...
The famed Brooklands Musuem has announced that It’s time to ‘Get back behind the wheel’ as Surrey’s most famous historical...
This car, which ran as the Multi-Union and was quite modern in look, was actually built up from an Alfa Romeo P3 Grand Prix car and enjoyed a long history of success in private hands, in England, before WWII. Here, it is being driven by Chris Staniland, in the August...
This man was a motor racing whirlwind, journalist, author of seven motor sport books, vintage car fan, ran driving courses...
A recent visit to the famous Donington circuit in England, for the launch of a wonderful book about the history...
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n the midst of Britain’s post-war turmoil engineer Reid Railton was freshly out of a job at the beginning of 1923. So was his friend Henry Spurrier III, although he was still working at Leyland Motors but on a reduced salary. Born in June of 1898, Henry Spurrier “Junior” was...
1930 Bentley Speed Six A bloke couldn’t think of anything more dissimilar if he tried. From a Boeing 737, to...
Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey, UK January 1, 2018...
More than 1,100 classic vehicles and more than 5,600 people assembled at Brooklands Museum to celebrate its annual New Year’s Day Classic Gathering. Believed to be the biggest January 1 classic meeting in the UK, the Brooklands event lived up to its billing with a rich and varied display by...
Brooklands Museum’s restoration of the original Brooklands Finishing Straight and the re-instatement of the Paddock Scoreboard was awarded a rare...
Dr. J. Dudley Benjafield founded the British Racing Drivers Club (BRDC) in 1928 as a social club for British racing...
1934 MG Q-type The story of how, in 1923, the first MG—under the guidance of Cecil Kimber—grew from the Bullnose Morris car is well known. The secret of success for MG was that it was able to supply light, open cars at highly competitive prices. Known as the M.G. Super...
Brooklands, Weybridge, UK June 17-18, 2017...
Stars of two and four wheel racing were on hand to promote the 6th Henry Surtees Foundation fundraising kart challenge, held at Mercedes World, Brooklands. This first event since the passing of John Surtees CBE who set up the charity following the tragic death of his son Henry, killed at...
Louis Delage may have been born to a humble assistant station master and his wife in Cognac, France, in 1874,...
On the weekend of June 17-18, Brooklands, the first motor racing circuit in the world, celebrated the 110th anniversary of...
In celebration of 110 years since the opening of Brooklands, the ancestral home of British motorsports, the Goodwood Festival of Speed, presented by MasterCard, will host an array of cars and motorcycles from the Surrey historic circuit’s past when it unfolds on the weekend of June 29-July 2. The brainchild...
Today we think of Fiat’s role in Grand Prix racing as the owner of Ferrari, but the Turin company was...
In modern Formula One terms, the young driver Max Verstappen is creating a storm in the motor racing press due...
Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey, UK June 18–19, 2016 (Next page for more)...
In a world first, England’s Concours of Elegance on the grounds of Windsor Castle this September 2-4, will feature cars...
Entries have opened for the 2016 Brooklands Double Twelve Motorsport Festival, organized by Brooklands Museum and the Vintage Sports Car...
This is the debut showing of Reed Railton’s land speed record car, its tire fairings here removed, in front of the Thomson & Taylor showroom at Brooklands in April 1938. It was called the Railton Special and was powered by two Napier Lion W12 airplane engines. The Special broke the...
After the First World War and into the ’20s, many car manufacturers throughout Europe became involved in Grand Prix racing....
Harsh Truth Dear Editor, It is a given that retired race drivers have a propensity for telling fish stories. The...
Bonus Photo Gallery from the Brooklands Double Twelve Motorsport Festival, held June 17, 2015....
