Auto Italia at Brooklands Museum

After seeing an advert for this event and needing something to do on the May Day Bank Holiday Saturday we booked tickets and hit the M25 towards the Museum at the historic Brooklands Motor Racing Circuit.

We saw several Italian supercars on the motorway and then we joined a long queue of them going into the circuit.

I do think that Brooklands Museum didnt realise how popular this event would be and the traffic jams were quite long at times heading into the facility. This does seem to be a problem of sorts when advertising on Facebook, other events we have visited have suffered the same problems.

Once into the museum, which was easy once we got past the entrance for exhibitors, we were parked in the car parks used by the local offices and from there had a short walk to the museum entrance.

The museum used as much of the free space as possible to display cars and we had the treat of lines of cars ranged along the historic banking. Cars were posed under the planes including the Concorde as well as in front of the garages and museum buildings.

There was everything from Fiat 500's through to Ferrari's and Lambourghini's. Motorbikes were also represented and the museum also displayed a few of their own vehicles. The museum buildings were also open for visitors and there were plenty of food stalls open to keep us happy.

There were demonstrations by many cars on the Mercedes World track plus the Silver Arrows put on their usual display on the skid pan something they are very good.

Here are a few pictures from the day.