09/10/2026
Brooklands celebrated the centenary of the first Brooklands Motorcycle Grand Prix held on 9 October 1926.
I am honoured to be part of that team and walk in the footsteps of the great people who raced at .
Researching the early years of motorcycle racing has brought me closer to those men and women racers and their families as well as the engineering that continues on the site to this day.
Everything on the site has a remarkable story. This Norton Mod 18 won the 500cc races at the 1927 &28 Brooklands Motorcycle Grand Prix meetings and in 1987 an elderly Albert Denley was pictured with the bike on which he broke the 24 hr record at Montlhery
Image credit Perry Barwick :