{"id":17924,"date":"2014-07-07T18:45:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T17:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/issue_content\/centenary-weekend-at-brooklands\/"},"modified":"2019-07-21T07:35:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T06:35:22","slug":"centenary-weekend-brooklands","status":"publish","type":"issue_content","link":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/archive\/article\/july-2007\/8\/centenary-weekend-brooklands\/","title":{"rendered":"Centenary weekend at Brooklands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklands, the world\u2019s first purpose-built race track, is celebrating its centenary on the weekend of June 16-17. Whether your love is for cars, aircraft or motorcycles, both days are crammed with events and activities for young and old alike.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday sees re-enactments of some of the great races that took place in the Track\u2019s heyday between 1907-39, while on the Sunday, the actual 100th anniversary of its opening, a cavalcade of period cars will re-enact the first-ever lap of the magnificent new circuit.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the weekend the famed banking and Test Hill will be in regular use and spectators will be able to enter competitions to win rides around the track.<\/p>\n<p>Notable cars attending include the Napier-Railton featured on page 102, the Blitzen Benz that broke the land speed record at Brooklands in 1909, \u2018Babs\u2019 the 27-litre record breaker with the largest engine ever to race at Brooklands and a host of other world famous races from the pre-war era.<\/p>\n<p><i>Motor Sport<\/i>, which started life in 1924 as <i>The Brooklands Gazette<\/i>, will be there, and if you wish to be as well, further details are available from the Brooklands Festival website: www.brooklandsfestival.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"issue_decade":[121591],"issue_year":[121609],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/17924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue_content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/17924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259839,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/17924\/revisions\/259839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17924"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=17924"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=17924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}