The historic Brooklands motor racing circuit echoed to the sounds of the past on February 16, when a group of Talbots and other historic cars celebrated the 100th anniversary of the occasion in 1913 when Percy Lambert became the first person in the world ever to travel 100 miles in one hour.
The cars, provided by members of the Sunbeam-Talbot-Darracq Register, were flagged off near the original attempt’s start line on the Railway Straight of the Brooklands circuit at 12:43 p.m.—the exact time of the start of Lambert’s original run—by Lord Shrewsbury, whose great-grandfather performed the same task 100 years ago.
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