“ MEANWHILE BRANDS HATCH CONTINUES TO DELIVER WHAT IT DOES BEST, WEEK UPON WEEK OF HIGH- PACED MOTORSPORT ACTION”
Motorsport Venues
American SpeedFest has inspired similar events including Festival Italia, Brands Britannia and Go Japan, while the popular British Truck Racing Championship’ s November season finale is combined with a fireworks display that ranks among the county’ s very best.
A retro Supertouring car-themed event captured the imagination of longstanding BTCC fans, many of whom bring their children to see the modern-day championship and can now show them what it was like in their day. Rebranded Touring Car Rewind for 2026, the event has proved so successful that it is being introduced to other MSV venues. Families arrive for the atmosphere of these events as much as the racing, discovering the sport almost by accident.
The unchanged nature of Brands Hatch naturally makes it a popular venue for historic racing, where classic Grand Prix cars and sportscars can race on virtually the same hallowed ground that they once did in period. Slotting between the late May Bank Holiday Masters Historic Festival – which will feature anniversary content including the two Williams F1 cars that Mansell raced to victory at the circuit- and mid-July HSCC Legends of Brands Hatch Superprix is the London Historic Trophy, launched to coincide with the venue’ s season-long‘ Century of Power’ celebrations.
Cars from the 1920s through to the 1990s will star in a line-up of racing, demonstrations and displays. Covering the eras will be a combined Royal Automobile Club Woodcote Trophy and Stirling Moss Trophy, HRDC Top Hat and Gerry Marshall Trophy classes for 1960s and 70s tin tops, plus the Historic Touring Car Challenge for 80s saloons. Also in action will be
Brands hosts a winter stage rally using mixed surfaces both the race track and and the circuit’ s infield roads
2-litre Sportscars and Pre-66 GTs Sprint grids, and while pre-war sports cars may not have raced at Brands Hatch in period, their appearance will certainly be a crowd-pleaser, as will the Group C car demonstrations, recalling the classic 1000km endurance epics.
Meanwhile Brands Hatch continues to deliver what it does best – week upon week of high-paced motorsport action. Through peak summer, it is the turn of the clubs to take centre stage, with rounds of the 750 Motor Club, BRSCC and MSVR Club Championships offering hundreds of competitors the chance to experience this legendary circuit at its best, in all sorts of machinery.
And that, ultimately, is the whole point of Brands Hatch. The land itself – the bowl, the gradients, the natural flow –
gives the circuit its character, but it is the heritage, the accessibility and the opportunity it gives the fans, both behind the wheel and in the grandstands, that makes it stand out from the crowd.
In 1926, a group of cyclists raced across a mushroom field in Kent and discovered what would become a national treasure. In the same year, nine cars lined up at Brooklands for the first British Grand Prix. Over time, those two worlds have met, separated and evolved, but the core of Brands Hatch remains unchanged.
The hill still drops away at Paddock. The crowd still gathers on the bank. And the cars still fight for grip and victory. One hundred years on, it still delivers the same simple, compelling offering: people, racing machines, and a piece of land that brings them together.
“ MEANWHILE BRANDS HATCH CONTINUES TO DELIVER WHAT IT DOES BEST, WEEK UPON WEEK OF HIGH- PACED MOTORSPORT ACTION”
Revolution Magazine 49