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Did you know that in 1910 a car was
timed over a measured kilometre
at over 132 miles per hour?

If you consider yourself a bit of a buff on motor racing or aviation history see how many of
these questions you can answer. To enter our competition e -mail your answers and   win a year's membership of the world renowned Brooklands Society plus tickets to visit the Brooklands site and museum
the next time you visit England. We've given you some of the answers so the challenge
is to to complete the rest. Over to you and good luck.

1. Where was the world's first enclosed banked motor racing track built?
2. On what date was it opened?
3. Who was the first man to drive more than 100 miles in one hour?
4. Who was the first man to fly, on what date and why did his mother want him to go home?
5. Who made the first powered flight by a Briton in a British built aeroplane?
6. Who gained the first women's pilot's licence and what was her real name?
7. What was the date of the first non-stop transatlantic flight in a Brooklands built aircraft, what was the aircraft and who were the pilots?
8. Name the Polish Count who built three cars all named Chitty Bang Bang and raced a Straight Eight Bugatti at Indianapolis in 1923. What car did he return with from America which went on to race at Brooklands? Where can you still see Chitty 2? Is there a Chitty 4? Where is Chitty 5?
9. Who was born in Baltimore MD in 1896 and became the first man to break the 200 mph land speed record at Daytona in 1927? What make of car was he driving?
10. Who was the young American who took up racing while an undergraduate at Cambridge and went on to drive a famous Maserati and a Duesenberg both of which can still be seen today?
11. Who invented the bouncing bomb and what did it bounce on?
12. Which second world war bomber was found in Loch Ness while searching for the monster? Where is it now? What was so special about its construction? Where is the monster now?
13. Who was Buffalo Bill Cody the aviator and how did he meet his end?
14. What motor race started from New York's Times Square on February 12 1908 and when did the first car home cross the finishing line?
15. On what date was the 150 mph land speed record broken and by whom?
16. What does the land speed record stand at today?
17. Who was the first car manufacturer to build 15 million cars of the same model and on what date did the 15 millionth roll off the production line?
18. Who, according to Ettore Bugatti built the fastest truck in the world?
19. Which make of car has won the Le Mans 24 hour race more times than any other?
20. What was the Turtle Drilling Special and where can you still see it racing?
21. What fuel did the 1939 Mercedes-Benz W154 run on?
22. Name the German driver who finished fourth in a Mercedes Gullwing in the 1952 Mille Miglia.
23. What is the total engine capacity of the Alfa Romeo Bimotore?
24. What car and which driver won the 1936 Indy 500?
25. What is today's world's fastest production sports car?

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