BROOKLANDS AWARD AT VINTAGE SHELSLEY
A Brooklands Society award was won at the Vintage Sports Car Club Shelsley Walsh hillclimb on Sunday 5th July 2009 by Mark Brett from London, driving a Ballamy Ford V8 Special.  The car was originally built for H. G. Symmonds in 1937, and its pre-war competition history included two Junior Car Club races at Brooklands in 1938.

This award, the first in a new 2009 initiative by the Society, was given for the best performance against handicap by a car which competed at the Brooklands track in period (from 1907 to 1939).  Similar awards in the form of engraved trophies were made at the VSCC’s two other 2009 hillclimb and race meetings at pre-war venues – Prescott on 1/2 August and Donington on 6th September.

The trophies were presented at the Society’s annual dinner in the Brooklands clubhouse at Weybridge in November 2009.

The Brooklands Society, not connected with the Brooklands Museum, was formed in 1967 by Bill Boddy MBE.  It is dedicated to preserving and promoting the history of the Brooklands track and the cars, motor-cycles and aeroplanes which appeared there from 1907 to 1939.  It publishes a widely-acclaimed quarterly magazine on Brooklands history.  Annual membership costs £30.

The Brooklands Society award programme is administered by Society committee member Mike Hopper, who can be contacted on 01865 383146 during office hours.
 
The above Brooklands Society photograph of the Ballamy at Shelsley on 5 July can be freely reproduced for the purposes of this press release.