Currently owned and used by a consortium of car manufacturers (for testing), the 2.4km oval was originally designed to handle racing cars of 2200lbs, moving at 140mph; having traveled over 130mph (in a modern rally car ) on the banking, I can assure … From the Brooklands Museum collection , the Titch Allen-built replica of the supercharged Triumph Speed Twin which terrorized Brooklands in the late 1930s ..
Posts from ‘May, 2013’
Pace Laps – The Frontstretch
Guide ropes for a television camera fell onto the race track, damaging several cars and bringing out a lengthy red flag, and pieces of that rope also injured the fans, who were in the in the Turn 4 grandstand. The Speedway …
Kevin Harvick Wins Coca-Cola 600 | The Guardian Express
There were so many strange things that happened in this race that Fox's television crew concluded that the culprit was a full moon that was out that night. The incidents first …
10 of the Most Interesting Vintage Rides up for Auction Next Month …
… June 2 in Greenwich Connecticut. The 100 car -strong roster includes such names as Bugatti and Aston Martin, but it was the more unusual rides that caught my attention… …