AN IMPRESSIVE line-up of gleaming Grand Prix cars covering more than a century of competition gathered in Sunday’s sunshine to mark the 90th anniversary of the first ever British Grand Prix.
For those first races, the circuit was 2.6 miles. To mark the 90th anniversary of that first race, an eye-watering display of Grand Prix cars – ranging in age from 1912 up to machines from the current decade – were out in force, including the museum’s 1926/27 Delage 15-S-8 driven by the 1926 team, which came second in the 1927 Brooklands race.
Other Grand Prix cars from the museum included the 1912 Lorraine Dietrich ‘Vieux Charles III’, James Cheyne’s Halford Special, which also raced in 1926, and the modified 1927 Duesenberg Indianapoliscar which Enzo Ferrari entered in the 1933 Monza Grand Prix in Italy. Bugattis are always a popular feature and Sir Malcolm Campbell’s Type 39A and Count Czaykowski’s Type 51, both with great Brooklands history, were shown off.