The History of Motorsports
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Luke Tomes travels to the world's first racing track at Brooklands Museum in Weybridge to find out what it took to be a grand prix racing driver over the last century. Donning a traditional racing suit, hat and goggles, Luke drives a Bugatti Baby, based on the 1926 Type 37 Bugatti race car, down the Brooklands finishing straight, the same track used in the first ever British Grand Prix.
Luke is also driven in a replica of the Lagonda driven at the 1935 Le Mans 24-hour race by Dr Dudley Benjafield, before taking on the Lewis Hamilton McLaren simulator to see if he can cut it as a Formula 1 driver in the 21st century.
2026 marks the centenary of the first British Grand Prix which took place at Brooklands in 1926.
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