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General => General discussion => Topic started by: Mikester on 23 December 2012, 13:14
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(http://images.pistonheads.com/nimg/26883/TFT_roadtrip.jpg)
Taken from:
http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=26883
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Take the time to read the article and comments and you'll find something out...
http://www.pbase.com/kayjaynz/gp_circuit_reims
Simples.
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Take the time to read the article and comments and you'll find something out...
http://www.pbase.com/kayjaynz/gp_circuit_reims
Simples.
Thanks for that. Must of missed that bit! I got too taken in by the video. Going to have to visit here in 2013.
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Thats unreal love old places like that.
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Anyone that likes that sort of stuff, really should visit the Brooklands Museum in Surrey, take a walk up the concrete banking, and imagine one of the Birken Blower Bentley's coming at you at 140mph! one of the eeriest places I've ever visited!
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xJeXIzrtzyw/T1DzWCNACNI/AAAAAAAABO0/C75db9eTpF8/s1600/Bentley+Brooklands+2007_14.JPG)
Thom
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Anyone that likes that sort of stuff, really should visit the Brooklands Museum in Surrey, take a walk up the concrete banking, and imagine one of the Birken Blower Bentley's coming at you at 140mph! one of the eeriest places I've ever visited!
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xJeXIzrtzyw/T1DzWCNACNI/AAAAAAAABO0/C75db9eTpF8/s1600/Bentley+Brooklands+2007_14.JPG)
Thom
i love that photo!
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Anyone that likes that sort of stuff, really should visit the Brooklands Museum in Surrey, take a walk up the concrete banking, and imagine one of the Birken Blower Bentley's coming at you at 140mph! one of the eeriest places I've ever visited!
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xJeXIzrtzyw/T1DzWCNACNI/AAAAAAAABO0/C75db9eTpF8/s1600/Bentley+Brooklands+2007_14.JPG)
Thom
I used to (and parents still do) live less than 5 minutes from there.
It's better to go on some of the older sections which are around the back of the Tesco/M&S stores in the evenings. Local legend is sometimes you can still hear the old cars lapping every now and again. I never heard it myself. Walking around the museum is pretty cool though, and for the more modern car enthusiast there is Mercedes Benz world down there now.
Still an astonishing place, with a majority of the banked track still in one piece and made a feature of rather than just removed which is refreshing also.
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Its worth reading this for the links to some unused tracks in Europe:
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=1213493
(http://thumbsnap.com/s/JHQarZvI.png)
There is one in spain that is similar to brooklands with a ridiculous banked curve.
Im going to put the original place in france in my route to the nurburgring this year i think. Its not to far of course.
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Anyone that likes that sort of stuff, really should visit the Brooklands Museum in Surrey, take a walk up the concrete banking, and imagine one of the Birken Blower Bentley's coming at you at 140mph! one of the eeriest places I've ever visited!
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xJeXIzrtzyw/T1DzWCNACNI/AAAAAAAABO0/C75db9eTpF8/s1600/Bentley+Brooklands+2007_14.JPG)
Thom
I used to (and parents still do) live less than 5 minutes from there.
It's better to go on some of the older sections which are around the back of the Tesco/M&S stores in the evenings. Local legend is sometimes you can still hear the old cars lapping every now and again. I never heard it myself. Walking around the museum is pretty cool though, and for the more modern car enthusiast there is Mercedes Benz world down there now.
Still an astonishing place, with a majority of the banked track still in one piece and made a feature of rather than just removed which is refreshing also.
Its a weird place Alex, we walked up the bank from its closest point to the Museum, and you find yourself double checking... just in case theirs a Napier hurtling towards you! we were there on a sunday afternoon mid summer this year, the place must have been incredible back in the 20s and 30s, if only I could have swapped my sunday for one back then!
Shame they built on other parts of the circuit!
Thom
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I went to Brooklands college next door, skated the banks a few times :laugh: