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Above: David Rowlinson in his Jaguar D-Type replica is waved off by a mysterious racing driver!
Left: The classic car run set off from in front of the Brooklands Club House building.
nice forethought, and makes me think that maybe next year I’ ll get my act together and get a room too. It would certainly be preferable to my early morning blast down the A1 and round the M25.
Brooklands
Like previous years, the start line for the classic cars was in front of the club house, where each car poses briefly for an official photo before being waved off by a‘ Union Jack’ carrying flag bearer. The crews taking part in the kit and sports car run started their journey in front of Brookland’ s Concorde supersonic airliner, and were waved off by someone looking suspiciously like a certain anonymous racing driver who stars in a popular BBC motoring programme. Could it really be...? Nah. Well, maybe! The atmosphere at Brooklands was relaxed and some of the crews made time to explore