Circuits

By: William Bill Boddy, new book with a minor tear on the cover, see images Giant racing cars — impressively fast and powerful — thrilled the spectators at the famous Brooklands racing circuit in Surrey between the years 1907 and 1939. In...

By: David Venables . Brooklands, the cradle of motorsport in Britain, was the inspired creation of one man, Hugh Locke King, who realised that, for motoring to develop, a track was needed where cars could race at the highest speeds attainable. The banked...

By: Touchstone Books . Prior to 1907, motor sport was banned on public roads within the United Kingdom, forcing drivers to enter races in Europe.To address this situation, Hugh Fortescue Locke-King decided to transform 330 acres of his Brooklands estate...

By: Terry O'Neil . The vision of one man, Captain Sherman ‘Red’ Crise formed the basis for what was to become the Bahamas Speed Weeks, a series of motor races held on the island of New Providence in the Bahamas. They started in the mid...