Brooklands Museum Talks

The Track Episode 21. The Sunbeam 350HP LSR Car and Brooklands Innovation Academy. by Nonesuche Media

We were delighted to welcome to Brooklands Museum the legendary team boss of West Surrey Racing, Dick Bennetts, whose Formula 3 drivers have included Ayrton Senna, Mika Hakkinen, Eddie Irvine, Rubens Barrichello and Jonathan Palmer. WSR bowed out of F3 at the end of 1995 as the most successful team in the history of the series, both in terms of race victories and titles. From 1996 the team has con...

Crowds converged on Brooklands Museum as it hosted the land speed record celebration day, in partnership with the National Transport Trust and National Motor Museum Beaulieu, on Tuesday 17th May, exactly 100 years after Brooklands played host to a record-breaking run. This presentation discusses the early history of Sunbeam and the design and evolution of this magnificent racing car. Contributors...

Crowds converged on Brooklands Museum as it hosted the land speed record celebration day, in partnership with the National Transport Trust and National Motor Museum Beaulieu, on Tuesday 17th May, exactly 100 years after Brooklands played host to a record-breaking run. In the afternoon, attendees were invited to a panel discussion with Andy Green and representatives from McLaren Automotive, McMurtr...

Back in 2017, Keith Futcher, a 70-year-old living in Malaysia saw an image in a glossy magazine that sent his heart racing. Determined to recreate the photograph, Keith persuaded two other seniors, quickly growing to four, that a journey on heritage motorcycles across the Sahara was a wonderfully absurd notion. Hooking up with an ex-Special Forces operative and a combat zone photographer made them...

There are none more fitting than Tony Brooks, who once owned the garage just outside the Brooklands gates, to open a new season of Simon Taylor's Motoring Legends in 2017. Simon joined us in the Brooklands Clubhouse to revisit many of those people he originally interviewed for his famous "Lunch With....." series of articles in motorsport magazine. Tony Brooks took part in 39 F1 Grands Prix from195...

The Track Episode 20 - Dr Eric Gardner and Stars from Secrets of the Transport Museum by Nonesuche Media

The Track Episode 19 - Neil Trundle and Steve Clarke by Nonesuche Media

Dr Gardner was an amazing man. Not only was he the Brooklands circuit Physician but he also founded Weybridge Museum. That was not all however, as he was also a Weybridge GP and Surgeon, rower, soldier, hospital governor, local councillor and Mayor, archaeologist, historian, expert map collector, forensic pathologist and the inventor of the safety motor cycle crash helmet! Local historian Steve Mc...

Reine Wisell spoke with BMtv's Robin Cordery on a Zoom call on the 3rd August 2020. Reine was in Thailand and Robin in Surrey so please excuse the quality of the recording.

In 2007 Fiona Easterby combined her passion for cars and travel by buying a VW Beetle for £99 and driving it from the UK to Gambia, via the Sahara Desert. She caught the bug, as it were, and followed that by more international driving adventures, culminating in driving a 1969 Baja Beetle from the UK to Singapore via the Middle East and the Tibetan plateau. She became the first person in the world...

Tim talks to some of the owners and drivers at the VSCC Driving Tests day at Brooklands in January, followed by the 1964 Monte Carlo rally winner and so much more celebrity Paddy Hopkirk in person talking about his life in a Mini.

Neil Trundle is a former Chief Mechanic for the McLaren F1 team. He is best known for being the chief mechanic for F1 drivers Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost but has a wealth of experience at the cutting edge of Formula 1 over many years. He also co‐founded Rondel racing with a certain Ron Dennis and would later rejoin him for an epic stint at McLaren after running his own Formula 3 team in the early...

Paddy came to Brooklands to talk about his life with the unique BMC Mini and how his rally triumphs helped set the car. A great conversation wit Harry Sherrard.

Tiff came to Brooklands on the 13th January and spoke with Harry Sherrard about his life behind the wheel, sometimes in front of a camera!

A reunion took place at The Fairmile in Cobham on the 10th February 2022 of some of the former employees at University Motors, the first of its kind in 40 years. Some great stories were shared of working at the garage and its involvement in preparing and selling its version of the last tranche of MGC's together with their tuning of BMC Minis.

The Track interviews participants at the Military Vehicles Day at Brooklands in November 2021.

Henry Cole, tv presenter, producer and director best known for World's Greatest Motorcycle Rides, The Motorbike Show, Shed and Buried and Find it, Fix it, Flog it talks with Steve Parrish about his life in the fast lane. Please note that Henry's choice of words can be very adult!

This episode records interviews at Mini Day and the VSCC Halloween Driving Tests at Brooklands

This episode is recorded at the Emergency Services Day at Brooklands

Brooklands Relived and American Car Day.

The tale of Crusader, the jet-powered boat of 1952, appears to be a simple one about the ambition of John Cobb and Reid Railton, two unassuming but deeply gifted men, to break the water speed record on Loch Ness only for their efforts to end in tragedy. In fact the story behind that fateful outcome — Cobb’s death on his first high-speed run — is a complex web of clever design and inspirational end...

This is no ordinary memoir. Moving back and forth through time, two stories with fascinating parallels gradually unfold. One is of a Second World War Spitfire ace whose flying career came to a premature end when he was shot down and lost an eye, the other is about his progeny, a second generation fighter pilot who rose to the rank of air marshal. There were times when the lives of both father and...

Episode 12 features the event season finally getting under way with the team visiting the Brooklands Classic Car show & Jumble and the Motorcycle show including interviews with author and adventuress Zoe Cano and TV personality Sarah Crabtree from Bangers & Cash. Plus a look at the new McLaren: Driven by Design exhibition. The music is provided b Gentleman Tim & his Contenders performing live at t...

John Watson talks with Simon Taylor about his life in Formula One and Worlds Sportscar Championship and Le Mans. A very entertaining and insightful interview!