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Brooklands was a 2.767-mile (4.453 km) motor racing circuit and aerodrome built near Weybridge in Surrey, England, United Kingdom.It opened in 1907 and was the world's first purpose-built 'banked' motor racing circuit [n 1] as well as one of Britain's first airfields, which also became Britain's largest aircraft manufacturing centre by 1918, producing military aircraft such as the Wellington ...
The museum is located on 30 acres (12 ha) of the original 1907 motor-racing circuit. [7] It includes four listed buildings: the 1907 Brooklands Automobile Racing Club Clubhouse [18] and Members' Hill Restaurant buildings, [19] the 1911 Flight Ticket Office [20] and a 1940 Bellman aircraft hangar. [21]
The race had been scheduled to take place again at Brooklands in 1939 but was cancelled due to the outbreak of World War II. [1] After the War, the Junior Car Club was reformed into the British Automobile Racing Club. With the opening of the Aintree Motor Racing Circuit in 1954 the race was revived as the Aintree 200 Miles. [6]
The front of Mercedes-Benz World. Mercedes-Benz World is a facility open to the public at the historic Brooklands motor racing circuit in Weybridge, Surrey, UK.It is owned and operated by the Mercedes-Benz Group [1] and opened in October 2006; 18 years ago ().
The first Grand Prix of the Royal Automobile Club, commonly referred to as the 1926 British Grand Prix was a Grand Prix motor race held at the Brooklands circuit on 7 August 1926. [1] It was the fourth race of the 1926 AIACR World Manufacturers' Championship season, and the first-ever British Grand Prix.
The club then based itself at Goodwood Circuit, changing its name to the British Automobile Racing Club in 1949. [3] Over the next 18 years, BARC organised at least one international meeting at Goodwood a year, notably Easter Monday Formula One races and 9-hour sportscar races—the first night races to be run in Britain.
Reopening in 1920 Brooklands once again became prominent in motor racing and aviation. In 1939 the circuit was closed once again and did not re open. After many years of industrial neglect, the site now being owned by Vickers (later British Aircraft Corporation and British Aerospace), the Brooklands Society formed in 1967 with the intention to ...
Brooklands car racing circuit, 1907. In 1906 he designed the Brooklands motor racing circuit in Weybridge, Surrey. He was a director of BSA, who manufactured motorcycles amongst other things and in 1921 became chairman of the Royal Aero Club. [4] He had married Elizabeth (Bessie) in London in 1889, the daughter of R. Farrant. [2]