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  1.   chris o posted:
  10.04.2012 - 7:36 pm
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track is still active


  2.   Anthony posted:
  10.15.2015 - 9:56 pm
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For many years the track length was incorrectly reported. There's no way
that it could have been 4.2 km around.


  3.   RaceFanX posted:
  12.26.2015 - 1:22 am
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One of Great Britain's greatest circuits...

Racing began here in the 1920s with bicycle races on dirt roads. The
area was used for parking military vehicles during World War II, and
bombed as such, but eventually evolved into Britain's first post-war
motor racing venue when the full track was constructed, paved, and
opened for competition 1950. The track went on to host 12 runnings of
the British Grand Prix from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s and
numerous "Race of Champions" non-points events.


  4.   RaceFanX posted:
  04.24.2018 - 11:58 pm
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This track hosted the Rothmans 50,000, a one-off high dollar Formula
Libre race in August 1972. The race was intended to be a big bucks, "run
what you brung" battle with a 100-car entry list but none of that really
panned out due to the timing in the middle of many active championship
seasons. Only 58 cars entered, with most being F2 or F5000 teams, with
the day's big race turning into a walkover as Emerson Fittipaldi and the
Lotus F1 team took a break from their championship season to crush all
comers, humiliating Rothmans as they won the race in a car sponsored by
rival John Player Special. There were only a few F1 cars in the race but
they swept the podium. Fittipaldi and Lotus decided to enter the race
after they figured out none of the other top F1 teams of the day would
be, expecting an easy win as such and getting it.


  5.   RaceFanX posted:
  07.21.2020 - 1:23 pm
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Full Name of Track: "Brands Hatch Circuit"


  6.   RaceFanX posted:
  07.21.2020 - 1:36 pm
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Brands Hatch was used as a filming location for the 2013 film "Rush"
about the 1976 Formula 1 season. Despite Brands' dramatic British Grand
Prix that year though it doesn't "play itself." Instead Brands doubles
for the 1976 era Circuit Paul Ricard (which looks nothing today like it
did back then), the Nurburgring, Monza and Ferrari's Fiorano test track.
Almost all the racing scenes in "Rush" were filmed in the UK although
some other scenes were filmed at the real Nurburgring.


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