Brooklands Museum Audio Guide Tour

Brooklands Museum in Weybridge occupies part of the historic Brooklands site, where Hugh Locke King opened Britain’s first purpose-built motor racing circuit in 1907. Its steeply banked track became a landmark of early speed records and drew drivers, engineers and spectators during the pioneering years of British motorsport. Brooklands was also a centre of aviation: aircraft were built and tested here, and the site played an important role in aircraft production during the Second World War. Racing ended with the outbreak of war in 1939 and never resumed, but surviving sections of track preserve the scale of the original circuit. Today the museum brings together vintage racing cars, aircraft and a Concorde, connecting two intertwined stories of twentieth-century engineering and transport.