Entries have been finalised for The Brooklands Double Twelve Motorsport Festival on 18-19 June, with more than 200 cars signing up for the Festival’s Sprint and Driving Concours competitions. The size of the entry makes it the biggest motoring competition held at Brooklands since 1939.
Organised by the Museum in association with the Vintage Sports-Car Club, the Festival is based on the Museum site and uses parts of the original race track built in 1907 and the modern Mercedes-Benz World circuits.
The Brooklands Double Twelve Motorsport Festival takes its name from the great 24-hour races held at Brooklands 80 years ago and has three main elements: a speed sprint held on the MBWorld circuit on Saturday 18th; a driving concours competition testing both driving ability and car beauty, held over both days; and the Test Hill Challenge, held on Sunday 19th.
Star of the Driving Concours this year will be Corrado Lopresto’s 1942 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 SS Bertone Coupé, which has won both the Villa d’Este Concours in Italy and its class at the Pebble Beach Concours in California. This unique car has never been seen in the UK before.
Another Concours-winning car appearing at the Festival is the 1935 Bugatti Type 57 Ventoux which won last year’s Salon Privé event in London.
The Driving Concours will see twelve classes of pre-war and post-war cars competing on six different Test layouts over the two days. They range from the earliest cars of the Veteran era including one of the smallest cars ever to complete the London to Brighton Run - an 1896 Henriod belonging to Roy Fisher of Eastbourne. This fascinating car was considered old even before the Brooklands Circuit had been built in 1907. The Swiss-built Henriod has another claim to fame in that it was a FIVA Preservation Trophy winner at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in 2007.
