Brighton Speed Trials 2011
Southern Roadcraft Replica Cobra gathering speed. (The SR was a local Sussex-based manufacturer). The Brighton Speed Trials is the longest-running motorsport event in the world, having run since 1905. It is organised by the Brighton and Hove Motor Club and runs every year in September: www.brightonandhovemotorclub.co.uk/
The event has such a history that it attracts cars from the earliest days of the competition to the latest bike-engined Radicals, Skylines and superbikes. The course used to be a bumpy two-lane, half-mile straight but was reduced to a bumpy single lane, quarter-mile in the seventies. The fastest competitors are doing c.160mph at the end of the straight and the lamposts are all cast iron.
Brighton Speed Trials 2011
Southern Roadcraft Replica Cobra gathering speed. (The SR was a local Sussex-based manufacturer). The Brighton Speed Trials is the longest-running motorsport event in the world, having run since 1905. It is organised by the Brighton and Hove Motor Club and runs every year in September: www.brightonandhovemotorclub.co.uk/
The event has such a history that it attracts cars from the earliest days of the competition to the latest bike-engined Radicals, Skylines and superbikes. The course used to be a bumpy two-lane, half-mile straight but was reduced to a bumpy single lane, quarter-mile in the seventies. The fastest competitors are doing c.160mph at the end of the straight and the lamposts are all cast iron.