FLAT OUT AT 70 FOR CASTLE COMBE
Jan 08, 2020
4 minutes
By Paul Lawrence
Photos: Ollie Read, Castle Combe Archive
Of the continuously active UK race tracks, Silverstone is two years older and Brands Hatch first hosted car racing a few weeks before the inaugural Castle Combe race meeting on July 8, 1950. No other UK track has a longer history of motorsport.
Despite its 70-year history, Castle Combe remains fiercely independent under the control of the family of the late Howard Strawford, the man who rescued it from the brink of closure in the early 1970s. This season, it will be as busy as ever with the racing programme just the tip of an iceberg of activities that keeps it as an important generator of employment
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