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Easter Racing at Brooklands

Gaumont Sound News Issue 37, released 21/4/1930

Brooklands was the first custom-built banked motor race circuit in the world and opened in 1907. In 1926 it hosted the first British Grand Prix. This item shows the circuit in its heyday, when it could hold crowds of over 200,000 people.