A few years before Cadwell Park was opened in 1938 as Britain's realised reply to the Nürburgring, a far more ambitious plan was hatched to create an undulating circuit near Ivinghoe in Buckinghamshire. Despite much promise, it proved controversial. Ian Wagstaff tells the story in today's Great Read
Micky Burn did not realise the controversy and mayhem his words would cause. While his were the words, they were the thoughts of Sir Henry 'Tim' Birkin, for Burn was the ghostwriter of Full Throttle, the double Le Mans winner's autobiography. Birkin thoroughly disliked Brooklands and said so in no uncertain terms.
"[It is] without exception the most out-of-date, inadequate and dangerous track in the world." Burn would later claim that he knew nothing about cars, so may have been unprepared by the furore that this caused at Weybridge...
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