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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]
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 ...
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 (). Since then over 3 million people have visited.
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.
Margaret Mabel Gladys Jennings (née Allan; 26 July 1909 – 21 September 1998) [1] was a Scottish motor racing driver. As Margaret Allan (sometimes erroneously "Allen") she was one of the leading British female racing and rally drivers in the inter-war years, [2] and one of only four women ever to earn a 120 mph badge at the Brooklands circuit. [3]
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The firm was founded as Thomas Inventions Development Co. Ltd. by J. G. Parry-Thomas & Major Ken Thomson. [1] Their workshops were based in the 'flying village' inside the circuit at Brooklands, a convenient location for their customers, who raced there.
Its first event was the BRDC 500-Mile Race at Brooklands on 12 October of that year, a race won by a Bentley 4½ Litre, unsupercharged, owned and driven by Bentley-dealer Jack Barclay and Le Mans-winner F.C. Clement. [3] The event was such a success that the 1930 event, scheduled for 4 October, was accorded International status. [4]