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A Mercedes-Benz world of fun
More than 13,000 eager fans attended the big ‘Powered by Mercedes-Benz Live’ event at Brooklands in November to celebrate the…
January 2010
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Triumph TR2/3
These cars took their occupants to many a (bumpy) victory on circuit and stage. And, unsurprisingly, the humble Triumph is…
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"I rallied one"
Stuart Turner This journalist turned BMC and Ford competition chief found early fame as a championship-winning co-driver aboard a series…
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Motorfilms Quarterly Vol. 23
Another wonderful, varied selection of films. We loved seeing John Cobb’s record-breaking attempts in the Napier-Railton, breathtaking scenery from the…
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The Spirit of Competition
Lavish catalogue-cum-history of the outstanding Fred Simeone collection (www.simeonemuseum.org). Fred’s passion for originality shows in both book and cars, such…
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Formula 5000 Motor Racing
Back then… and back now Derek Lawson ‘Back then… and back now’: an appropriate title considering Formula 5000’s huge success…
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Winning
The Racing Life of Paul Newman Matt Stone and Preston Lerner There are so many quotes from famous names in…
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Millionaire: Colin Chapman
Collector’s Edition Filmed in 1968, this follows Chapman through that dramatic season. Perhaps because fame is still new, he talks…
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The Treasures of Formula One
A great book laced with facsimiles of race literature from as far back as 1900. An interesting introduction to the…
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The Toleman Story
Last Romantics in Formula 1 Christopher Hilton It’s easy to forget how important the tiny Toleman team is in the…
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Germany's own Brickyard
‘The Wall’ may be gone, but on a visit to AVUS the mere outline of the terrifyingly steep banking still…
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Colour schemes come in good, bad – and very, very ugly
Racing car liveries are a subject worthy of a dedicated book, not least for some – ahem – infelicitous colour…
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Zeppelin’s motor racing spin-off
When it comes to travelling very fast around the racing circuits of the 1930s, the Austro-Hungarian aerodynamicist Paul Jaray was…
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Two-handed exercise
When Jenks landed a Grand Prix reporting contract, he needed a colleague in Fleet Street. In stepped WB… When Denis…
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One Whale of a Calthorpe
Amongst the Brooklands competing cars which particularly interested me was A Whale’s single-seater Calthorpe, which in the early days had…
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WB’s modest career on two wheels and three
After my mother died I was living with friends in West Norwood whose family included three boys. The eldest and…
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No chance of bridging the gap
When the Brooklands Society had cleared things up at Brooklands Track after the war it was impossible to once again…
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