Brooklands Summer Fete 2022

Brooklands Summer Fete 2022 – Brooklands Museum

Head down to Brooklands Museum for an incredible day out for the whole family. Throughout August, the Museum is open every day with a host of fun family activities including treasure trails, traditional lawn games, Motor-Event days and so much more. As well as all the fun of the fete, NEW for 2022, Brooklands will be brought to life by the new team of costumed characters. Meet the legends and pioneers of Brooklands past and experience what a day at the track would have felt like in the early 1900s. There are 32 acres of space to explore; whether you’re walking around the historic banked race circuit or beneath the wings of the giant aeroplanes in the aircraft park or relaxing on the Paddock lawn with an ice cream, you’re guaranteed a great time. Get interactive in the award-winning Brooklands […]
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Bentley EXP2 Celebrates Centenary of First Win

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-Litre Bentleys to celebrate the centenary of its victory.

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Historics Auctioneers Scales up for 2021
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Historics Auctioneers Scales Up for 2021

Underlining its confidence in the classic car market, Historics Auctioneers has announced an increased 2021 auction calendar that will see the enthusiastic auctioneer stage major sales at all its well-established venues in the UK, plus a debut in Europe.

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Brooklands British Marques Day, Surrey

Celebrate the best of British car manufacturing at our all marques event. Alongside Austin and Morris there will be a whole host of British-built vehicles, from the pre-war Alvis and Sunbeam right through to the latest Jaguar model. There will be action on Test Hill, a cavalcade on the Mercedes-Benz World Circuit, club displays around the site and traditional British fare in the Café and BBQ.
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Classic 1948 Jaguar Owned by Deputy Chairman of Jaguar Cars Reunited with Family

A classic 1948 Jaguar sports saloon, first owned by Arthur Whittaker, the Deputy Chairman of Jaguar Cars, has been reunited with his family 67 years after he parted with it. During Historics at Brooklands classic car auction in Surrey on Saturday, 4th March, Whittaker’s four granddaughters – Lucy, Sally, Sarah, and Charlotte – who discovered the car’s impending sale purely by chance a fortnight earlier – fought off rival bidders to make it their own, settling on £70,000 for the jet-black classic.
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Brooklands Autumn Motorsport Festival

Now in its fifth year, the annual Motorsport Festival at the Brooklands Museum in Weybridge, Surrey always has something new to amaze visitors. Among the vast number of competition cars from all eras booked to appear on Sunday 11th October, this year’s Festival will for the first time be welcoming the 22.3-litre W12-engined Napier-Campbell Blue Bird. In 1927, on the Pendine Sands in Wales, this Land Speed Record car set a new record at an average 174.883mph on the two-way run, with Malcolm Campbell at the wheel. What’s more, the Blue Bird will be run with the Napier-Railton, the all-time Brooklands lap record-holder – and a car that broke 47 world speed records between 1933 and 1937. Other highlights at the Festival include a recreation of the 1905 Fiat Land Speed Record car, powered by a genuine 16.5-litre Isotta Fraschini V6 […]
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AC Cars Returns Home

Legendary British sports car maker AC Cars is returning home to Britain to build its cars at Brooklands in Surrey. The company that built the iconic AC Cobra had been based in Malta but a legal dispute over the factory has prompted the return to Britain. Owner of the AC brand, Acedes Holdings LLC, struck the new deal with AC specialist Brooklands Motor Company, which has been based in Jack Brabham’s former workshops in Weybridge, Surrey, for the past two decades. The company will make the original AC Ace, the AC MK11, the AC MK11 FIA and the AC MK111 at the Brooklands facility. A new factory in Michigan is also planned where AC will build cars for the US market. It is expected that about ten cars a year costing £150,000 will come out of the Brooklands workshop and […]