I’ve been visiting my brother in London and as we were close to Brooklands we decided to pay it a visit. Fortunately, they were just rolling out a 1934 Napier Railton to start up and take around a little circuit. What a noise it made. The whole site is a walk through motor racing history and its greatest names. Malcom Campbell had is workshop and showroom there, some of the earliest land speed records were set there and of course the famous banked circuit which is only partially there. Walking up the steep incline of the bank you get a sense of the bravery of the drivers hurtling around it at 120+ mph in open cockpit cars.

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