news Photo Competition Winners


The annual Members photo competition took place in the run up to Christmas and there were more than 150 entries for the adult competition. For the first time, we ran a junior competition for under 16-year olds which was judged by Lillian Spibey from the Sharp Shots Photo Club, who runs regular courses at the Museum for youngsters. Congratulations go to 10-year old Conor Jacobson for his picture of two toy cars on the Banking. In the adult class, our judge was professional photographer Jason Dodd, who has run many courses at Brooklands for budding and improving photographers. All the pictures were submitted to


VSCC New Year Driving Tests


and Edwardian Section (LCES). The emphasis was on having fun and, with such varied classes, competing against oneself as much as the opposition. The Modified Sports-Cars was by far the largest group featuring classic British marques such as MG, Riley, Morgan, Frazer-


A sunny crisp winter’s day greeted the Vintage Sports-Car Club for its annual New Year Driving Tests on 19 January. Perfect conditions for both competitors and spectators to enjoy the challenges set out over the Finishing Straight, Banking, car park and Test Hill by Clerk of the Course and Brooklands Members Secretary Kevin Lee. This year there was no overall event winner and the 47 entrants competed in four classes comprising Touring cars, Standard Sports-Cars, Modified Sports- Cars, and Cyclecars, Oddities and Light Car


Nash and various Austin 7 specials. Angelica Mainland, wearing a deer- stalker hat, drove the yellow Peugeot Lockhart Special which has an unusual transverse leaf spring front suspension, while Mark Garfitt’s gorgeous Frazer-Nash BMW 319 was a reminder of the 1930s collaboration between these two companies. The class was won by Paul Compton in his 1934 Wolseley Aerees Special. Alex Pilkington’s sublime 1930 Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 won the Standard Sports- Car class. This class also included David Marsh’s Bugatti Brescia which sports a distinctive long tail, while Stuart and Camilla Pringle shared their lovely Amilcar GCSS. Neil Thorp won the Touring class with his 1934 Singer 9 sports coupe and Richard Wadham won the Cyclecars, Oddities and LCES class with his Austin Chummy.


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Martin Gegg has been awarded the inaugural Motorcycle Volunteer Award. The award was given to Martin for his outstanding contribution when he stepped in to organise the team’s trip to the Vintage Revival Montlhéry last year when Tony Baxter had to pull out unexpectedly at a late stage.


The new award is for a member who has put in an exceptional effort and Martin more than met that criterion. He was presented with the award by Tony Baxter at the Motorcycle Volunteers’ Christmas dinner.


Martin said: ‘I am honoured to be


the first recipient of the award. The funny thing is, I heard about the idea of the award and then it all went quiet. Now I know why!’


Alisdair Suttie


Jason anonymously, so he had no idea who the photographers were. The competition was open for any picture taken at or with a Brooklands connection over the previous year. The overall winner is one of the Museum’s staff members, Sarah Horsley, the shop manager. Sarah is a keen amateur photographer and when the VC10 fired up its engines at Dunsfold, she captured a great shot of the Napier-Railton setting off along the runway with water spiralling from its wheels. Runner-up is Toby Hockin with his moody shot of a volunteer’s TVR.


Congratulations to all our winners for 2019: Graham Thomas,


John Retter, Gary Pocklington, John Clark, Michelle Good, Phil Johnson, Paul Bruton, Anthony Underwood and Ken Smith. The top eleven winning adult photos plus the junior winner appeared in the sold-out 2020 Members’ calendar and you can view all the entries on the Members online Flickr album.


Tim Morris New award for Martin


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