{"id":386,"date":"2013-06-26T11:40:33","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T11:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/?p=386"},"modified":"2013-06-26T11:40:33","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T11:40:33","slug":"the-roar-of-the-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"The Roar of the Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a good first couple of weeks for the exhibition at Brooklands Museum, with my prints being enthusiastically received. Many of the comments have mentioned how peaceful and serene the images look, and how they capture the very essence of their time.<\/p>\n

The annual Brooklands Double Twelve<\/a> saw over 5,000 visitors visit the museum during the weekend, and they were treated to lots of motor sport activity, with speed trials and driving skill tests on the Mercedes Benz World test track<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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There were some enthusiastic cadets who decided that they wanted to challenge themselves by pulling a car (with driver) up the Brooklands Test Hill, which gets gradually steeper before reaching 1 in 4 at the top!<\/p>\n

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A week or so later was the Henry Surtees Foundation Brooklands Team Challenge<\/a>, which saw several teams enter a 2 hour endurance Go-Kart race around the Mercedes Benz world Test track. Just prior to the race the museum started up their Napier Railton<\/a> and gave it a run round the test track. The Napier Railton is fitted with a 24 Litre Aero engine which has a rated BHP of 530! Oh and it weighs just over 2 tons, and occasionally needs to be bump started!! I’d like to see the cadets try and put that up the Test Hill!
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Once the Go-Kart race got under way I was struck again by the noise that went on during the testing and racing of all these motor vehicles, and thought back to the night when I took this shot of the Campbell Circuit which runs alongside the Mercedes Benz Test track, and the mood that visitors have commented that my images convey. It felt like a different world.<\/p>\n

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