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- Film ID:
- 2408.06
- Media URN:
- 76466
- Group:
- Old negatives
- Archive:
- British Pathe
- Issue Date:
- 1920 - 1929
- Sound:
- Silent
- HD Format:
- Available on request
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Duration:
- 00:01:13:00
- Time in/Out:
- 01:10:48:00 / 01:12:01:00
- Canister:
- ON 320 J
roycousins says
The 1926 RAC Grand Prix at Brooklands.
The French winners were Robert Senechal & Louis Wagner in a Straight-8 Delage
James Thorne says
1926 RAC Grand Prix at Brooklands
7th August 1926
110 laps of 2.61-mile course (287 miles)
00:10-00:15 – the cars lined up at the start are (nearest to camera) Albert Divo, Talbot 700 (car #1); Robert Benoist, Delage 15-S-8 (car #2); Captain George Eyston, Aston Martin Special (car #3); Major Frank Halford, Halford Special (car #5, largely obscured behind Eyston’s Aston Martin), Jules Moriceau, Talbot 700 (car #6, entirely obscured by the Halford Special), Malcolm Campbell, Bugatti Type 39A (car #7), Major Henry Segrave, Talbot 700 (car #9). Beyond Segrave’s Talbot is the Delage 15-S-8 of Louis Wagner (car #10). The ninth starter, the Delage 15-S-8 of Robert Sénéchal (car #14), is not in shot.
James Thorne says
00:16-00:23 – the cars lined up are (from right to left), Wagner, Segrave, Campbell, Moriceau, Halford and Eyston. From out of shot on the left, Divo makes the best start, and is followed into shot by Benoist and (finally) Sénéchal. 00:24-00:27 - Robert Benoist, Delage 15-S-8 (car #2) follows Major Henry Segrave, Talbot 700 (car #9) through the sandbank “esses” at the top of the Finishing Straight. 00:28-00:31 - Robert Benoist, Delage 15-S-8 (car #2) follows Major Henry Segrave, Talbot 700 (car #9) through the sandbank “esses” at the bottom of the Finishing Straight. 00:32-00:42 - Albert Divo, Talbot 700 (car #1) follows Major Frank Halford, Halford Special (car #5) through the sandbank “esses” at the top of the Finishing Straight. 00:43-00:49 – Major Henry Segrave, Talbot 700 (car #9) leads Malcolm Campbell, Bugatti Type 39A (car #7) and Robert Benoist, Delage 15-S-8 (car #2) through the sandbank “esses” at the top of the Finishing Straight. 00:50-01:00 – Captain George Eyston, Aston…
James Thorne says
The third-placed Delage 15-S-8 (car #2, driven by Robert Benoist and reserve driver André Dubonnet), which Benoist drove to victory in the 1927 RAC Grand Prix, also held at Brooklands, and the Halford Special are now on long-term display in the Grand Prix Exhibition at the Brooklands Museum, where visitors can also walk on parts of the original circuit, including the banked curve shown at 00:10-00:23 in the film and the restored top end of the Finishing Straight where the start-line (shown at 00:10-00:23) and the second sandbank “esses” (shown at 00:24-00:27 and 00:32-01:00 in the film) were located.