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...
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...
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...
This man was a motor racing whirlwind, journalist, author of seven motor sport books, vintage car fan, ran driving courses for the British police and was the founder, president or vice-president of some of the UK’s most prominent motoring and racing organizations. And he kept up that pace until he...
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...
1930 Bentley Speed Six A bloke couldn’t think of anything more dissimilar if he tried. From a Boeing 737, to a modern Korean buzzbox, to a 1930 Bentley Speed Six. While both the jet and the Hyundai with its automatic transmission and power this-and-that were purely means of transport, the...
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...
Brooklands Museum’s restoration of the original Brooklands Finishing Straight and the re-instatement of the Paddock Scoreboard was awarded a rare Special Commendation at the FIA (Federation Internationale de l’Automobile), annual prize-giving ceremony on December 8 at the Palace of Versailles near Paris. The Special Commendation was the first ever awarded...
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...
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,...
Louis Delage may have been born to a humble assistant station master and his wife in Cognac, France, in 1874, but he rose to become a dominator of world motor sport. Yet he died in poverty, in 1947, at the age of 73, bankrupt, swamped by mountainous debts and destitute....
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...
Today we think of Fiat’s role in Grand Prix racing as the owner of Ferrari, but the Turin company was once a successful pacesetter in the sport in its own right. Using radical new designs, it transformed Grand Prix technology. Fiat had a good First World War. It helped that...
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 from the grid of the inaugural British Grand Prix, held at Brooklands in 1926 (above). Visitors will have the unique opportunity to see the beginnings of top level British motorsport,...
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...
After the First World War and into the ’20s, many car manufacturers throughout Europe became involved in Grand Prix racing. They believed that advertising, prestige and development were in their interest and they were right. Demand for the motorcar began to increase. Most of these companies ran “Works Teams.” They...
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....
As a small boy my love of cars and motor sport meant I went to every race meeting my late Father could afford to take me to. The books written by Prince Chula Chakrabongse made fascinating reading for a small boy and they covered his recollections of the career of...
