Modem sensitivities

THE s( )UND OF RACING EXHALls t s WAS HEARD at Brooklands on the occasion of the VSCC Dudley Gahagan Memorial Sprint, along the old runway, on October 2. There was a link with the old racing days, silencers having to be used, as “Brooklands is an area where excessive noise is a sensitive issue” (as it was in 1907 and 1925!). Competitors

had to walk the course, prior to practice, “to notice its texture and condition” — well, Brooklands was sometimes described as bumpy but drivers didn’t walk its 2Y1 mile lap. The MSA was to check drivers for “alcohol abuse”, which didn’t figure in the pre-war rules, although noise checks of the cars certainly did.