Banked tracks disappearing

The survival of banked tracks, even after their racing days have ended,is minimal. Brooklands has part of the restored Members’ Banking for nonrace use, but the long run of the Byfleet banking is overgrown with weeds and has entrances and exits cut into it, a sad non-reminder of how racing cars once swept round it before taking the Fork turn.

The Monza banking is under threat and Montlhery is rumoured to be doomed by 2004, although surely it must never be allowed to go the same way as Brooklands. Sitges in Spain (left) has long been derelict It was badly designed and short-lived, so it is ironic that it has survived almost intact, though unused for so many years.