BROOKLANDSMUSEUM AWARDED SPECIAL COMMENDATION BY FIA
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he work to restore the original Finishing Straight and re-instatement of the Paddock Scoreboard was awarded a rare Special Commendation at the FIA (Federation Internationale de l’Automobile), annual gala and prize giving ceremony on 8th December at the Palace of Versailles near Paris. The Special Commendation was the first ever awarded by the FIA Founding Members’ Club, whose annual Members’ Heritage Cup was won this year by the Sports Car Racing Association of the Monterey Pensinsula (SCRAMP) for its annual historic race meeting at Laguna Seca, California. In a letter to the Museum Trust's Chairman, Sir Gerald Acher, the President of the FIA, Jean Todt, remarked: “Brooklands has played an important role in British motor sport for over a century and its legacy will no doubt inspire future generations to follow in the footsteps of some of the great motoring and aviation pioneers.” Welcoming the Commendation, Museum
Director and CEO Allan Winn said: “We are very honoured that the FIA has chosen to recognise the amazing transformation of Brooklands through this project – it is a timely reminder that
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the world governing body of motor sport has not forgotten the formative role which Brooklands played in establishing motor sport as we know it today.” We announced the Award on the Museum website and through social media with permission to use the official FIA badge.
Paul Stewart GETTING THE BEST FROM OLD PHOTOS News
This is one of the photos in a feature article in this Bulletin – as we received it...
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lot of the photos we use in the Bulletin are of course old. We are very fortunate to have
amongst the Brooklands Trust Members Mike Venables who has spent his entire working life as
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...and after Mike Venables has worked on it.
a professional photographer – and he also has outstanding skills in restoring photos using digital technology. He has done a lot of this sort of work for the Mercedes-Benz Club Archive and we are
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