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Brooklands
www.brooklandstrack.co.uk/Drivrlist/drivers.htm
Lists the Brooklands' racetrack drivers with biographies, photographs and driving characteristics. Drivers include Malcolm Campbell, Parry Thomas and Henry Segrave. Click on 'General Data' for some insights into racing at Brooklands.
Brooklands Museum
www.brooklandsmuseum.com/motoring_history.cfm
The world's first purpose-built motor racing circuit in Surrey was the centre of British motor sport for three decades.
Classics.com
http://classics.com/retro03.html
Check out some of the vintage and classic cars featured at this year's Rétromobile show. 'The Year of all Records', this year's theme, exhibited many famous record-breaking vehicles from the 1920s to the 80s.
Donald Campbell Tribute Site
www.acrossthelake.com
Tribute site to Malcolm Campbell's son Donald who tragically died in 1967 while attempting to beat the world water speed record.
Golden Era of Grand Prix Racing
www.kolumbus.fi/leif.snellman/main.htm
Fantastic site by Leif Snellman, comprehensive and accessible with lovely images.
Landracing
www.landracing.com/news/history.htm
Lists land speed records from 1813 to 2001, with images of most of the vehicles, including those driven by Rigolly, Campbell and Segrave.
Sciencenet
www.sciencenet.org.uk/database/tech/thrust/t00215d.html
Article for younger readers on how the land speed record started.
The Bluebird Years: Donald Campbell and the pursuit of speed by Arthur Knowles and Graham Beech (Sigma Leisure, 2001)
Story of Malcolm Campbell's son, Donald, and his heroic attempts to take the world water speed record past 300mph. The wreck of his jet boat Bluebird was recovered from Lake Coniston more than 34 years later. Buy this book from Amazon
Brooklands: The complete motor racing history by William Boddy (Motor Racing Publications, 2001)
Definitive history of the world's first purpose built motor racing course. The author first visited Brooklands as child in the 1920s and soon became a regular. Buy this book from WHSmith
Fastest Men on Earth: 100 years of the land speed record by Peter J R Holthusen (Sutton Publishing, 1999)
The author recalls the challenges, disappointments, tragedies and triumphs that have characterised record-breaking attempts from the earliest days of motor racing. Buy this book from WHSmith
Motor Racing: A century of competition and human challenges by Giuseppe Guzzardi and Enzo Rizzo (White Star, 2001) Chronology of motor sport in all its forms throughout the 20th century. The book is crammed with historic prints, black and white archive and modern colour photographs, statistics and roll calls, maps and circuit diagrams. Buy this book from Amazon
Cutty Sark and the Great Clippers
Graphics version (includes layout and images)