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WHERE THE 'RIGHT CROWD' GATHERED.(News)
Byline: JULIAN RENDELL
The names of Bentley and Brooklands have been inextricably linked since the 1920s, when Walter Owen Bentley's fledgling car company started racing at Britain's first purpose-built race circuit, Brooklands. His "Bentley Boys'' cut their teeth on the bumpy concrete banking at a circuit now swallowed up in urban sprawl 30 miles southwest of London.
Back then, it was the fashionable meeting place for well-to-do thrill seekers playing with cars and airplanes, hence its motto: "The Right Crowd and No Crowding.''
Success at Brooklands established Bentley's reputation for speed and reliability in an age when averaging 86 mph over 24 hours, as a 3.0-liter Bentley did in the famous Double Twelve race, was cutting-edge. But most significant was that Brooklands wins persuaded "W.O.'' and drivers such as Tim Birkin and Woolf Barnato, to try road racing at ...
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