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Brooklands Autumn Motorsport Festival
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|March 2017
Wailing soundtracks from Formula One to rallying, evocative period liveries and plenty of track action came back to the annual motorsport day at Brooklands.
Whichever way you look at it, British motorsport has a lot to thank Brooklands for. The argument may rage that the banked-track style of racing before the war would have no future, but that misses the point that Brooklands was the cradle of motorsport in the UK. There wasn’t anything like it when Mr Locke King took the visionary decision to establish a race circuit here in 1906.
Sadly the world didn’t seem to want motorsport to continue in deepest residential Surrey come the cessation of WW2. Probably the now stratospherically affluent local property owners would be highly vociferous about it if it ever did. I well remember that at one of the
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