James May's Toy Stories

[BRMark]

Anyone watch tonights?

He basically laid a scalextric track the full circuit of the old Brooklands motor racing circuit - which I belive is the namesake of our wonderful green cars! - though most of it has been developed into housing estates and buisness parks, and broke the record for the worlds longest scalextric track with a race on it helped by the locals now living/working on the site of the old circuit!

Anyway if you missed it and you're interested see here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00p1dn4/James_Mays_Toy_Stories_Scalextric/

[boogie]

Ye I saw it and if you were watching close right at the beginning there were two car's that look like BRM's

[BRMark]

You mean the scalextric one in the 1950's advert?

[boogie]

yep

[BRMark]

:laugh:

Good spot!

[Gene Hunt]

Best one so far.

[Rockey5uk2001]

on the subject of the brooklands race track.

on my birthday my misses took me too a driving expericence day in the atom near brookland. so i visited the muesum its full of old cars planes ect even parts of the track still excist but none of the orig BRM's are there i was quite upset :( if ur near it go and see its worth the money!

[kinggareth]

Yeah I had a watch of this one - to be honest it's been a good series so far, I particularly liked the full size airfix Spitfire.

I happen to work in Weybridge at the Brooklands end, so it was fun seeing all the places i know pretty well, and a few people i recognised!

I volunteered to take part in the building and the race, but they had thousands of voluteers already.

It's funny, every time I drive home I drive past the Brooklands banking, but it's easy to forget what a historic site it is for motor racing - that show brought it back. I might go for a little visit to the museum again actually.

[Gene Hunt]

Repeated tonight bbc2 19:00.