The Brighton National Speed Trials In 1960s, 1970s and 1980s - Those Were The Days...

By: Tony Gardiner .

100 years old in 2005, the Brighton Speed Trials event has always attracted full entries, mainly because of the opportunity it presents to drive cars and motorcycles on a public highway at speeds well in excess of the national speed limit. The unlikely combination of motorsport and the facilities of one of Britain's leading seaside resorts has made this uniquely atmospheric event part of Britain's national heritage.

Over the years an extraordinary range of cars and motorcycles have torn up the Brighton seafront tarmac: huge Edwardian monsters, awesomely powerful aero engined cars, motorcycles with sidecars, home built specials, Sports prototypes, Formula 1 cars, dainty Formula 500 racers and huge American sedans.

This book focuses on the three decades during which Tony Gardiner was an ordinary spectator (and a competitor in the 1970s); the previously unpublished images he captured then, together with his colourful recollections, bring back to life the dramatic atmosphere of a day at the races - Brighton style.

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