WHAT:
Purpose Built Motor Racing Circuit
WHERE:
Brooklands Circuit, Weybridge, Surrey, KT13 0SL, UK
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WHEN:
Built 1906 – Opened 1907 – First Official Event 28-29 June 1907
WHO:
Hugh Fortescue Locke-King & Ethel Locke-King
DETAILS:
Brooklands was a 2.75-mile (4.43 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 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 and civil airliners like the Viscount and VC-10. The circuit hosted its last race in August 1939 and today part of it forms the Brooklands Museum, a major aviation and motoring
museum, as well as a venue for vintage car, motorcycle and other transport-related events.
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