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Meanwhile, car technology had advanced to the point where banked corners weren’t vital for high-speed laps. The area was bombed several times by the Luftwaffe aiming to hurt the British war effort, with a devastating attack in September 1940 claiming almost 90 lives.Īfter the war, the circuit was heavily damaged, and there was a heck of a lot more British infrastructure that needed repair and renewal before a racetrack took priority. In 1939 the racing stopped, and Brooklands became a hotbed of aircraft production, with thousands of Hurricane fighters and Wellington bombers built on the site. Predictably, it was the intervention of the Second World War. So, why did the records not continue to tumble? Why – despite hosting the first British Grand Prix in 1926 – did Brooklands not vie with Silverstone to become a modern-day place of racing folklore, where Verstappen would streak to victory after victory? The Napier-Railton lives at Brooklands Museum, and still runs when they can dig out someone brave enough to drive it. In 1935, John Cobb’s 24-litre Napier-Railton special hit an unprecedented 143mph around the track, setting a lap record which still stands to this day. And the speeds were only going one way.īentley Blowers pushed the speed record around the 2.7-mile circuit past 130mph. After all, though the Indianapolis Speedway had opened in 1909 this was still one of the premier places to go fast in a car anywhere on the planet. It was the Taylor Swift stadium tour of its day.Īfter being requestioned by the military and used as an airfield during the First World War, Brooklands bounced back in the Twenties. The spectacle made headline news and 10,000 spectators poured in, though this was small potatoes compared to the 280,000 spectators Brooklands hosted in its heyday. That idea would later catch on in a little town in France.
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Later in June, it hosted the world’s first 24-hour motorsport event, as drivers competed to see how they could make a car travel the furthest in 24 hours. Immediately Brooklands started making history. Construction began in October 1906, and amazingly, was completed less than a year later, with a ceremonial procession of fundraisers and petrolheaded hoi polloi invited to form a 43-car strong parade on 17 June 1907.
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