

THE SPEED SIX BENTLEY
THE SPEI-4:D SIX BI-4.TLEY EVER since the name of Bentley first became associated with road racing one success after another has fallen to this maique and the old cry that…
Modem sensitivities
THE s( )UND OF RACING EXHALls t s WAS HEARD at Brooklands on the occasion of the VSCC Dudley Gahagan Memorial Sprint, along the old runway, on October 2. There was a link with the old racing days, silencers having to be used, as “Brooklands is an area where excessive noise is a sensitive issue” (as it was in 1907 and 1925!). Competitors
had to walk the course, prior to practice, “to notice its texture and condition” — well, Brooklands was sometimes described as bumpy but drivers didn’t walk its 2Y1 mile lap. The MSA was to check drivers for “alcohol abuse”, which didn’t figure in the pre-war rules, although noise checks of the cars certainly did.