2 Lola Mark 1 quintet reunited

Five Lola Mk1s will contest the sportscar race named for Robert

Brooks, who died last year. The auctioneer extraordinaire won the Sussex Trophy race at the first Revival Meeting (1998) in a Lotus 15 with its rear wheelarch flapping.

Four of their histories are intertwined with the venue. Designer

Eric Broadley rolled the prototype (BY-1, built in Byfleet) at Madgwick, third time out, at the 31st MM. Christopher ‘Dickie’ Le Strange Metcalfe won the first era finale at the 71st MM on 2 July 1966 in Bromley-built BR-32, previously raced by Tom Hart and Jack Paterson.

Susan Ahlers has long owned BY-1, entered for husband Keith’s regular co-driver James ‘Billy’ Bellinger. Fellow preparer Nick

Finburgh saddles the Adams family’s car, in Metcalfe’s black livery.

The first Lola raced in the USA, in agent Allan Ross’s hands, BY-2 was reacquired by Broadley in 1985. Bought from him by period Goodwood racer Robs Lamplough, ‘Lulu’ is entrusted to the versatile Ben Mitchell.

Sir John Chisholm’s BR-21 contested the 1962 Whitsun Trophy and won that day’s handicap in first owner Lord Angus Clydesdale’s hands. Crashed in practice for the 1963 Singapore GP, it was bought by the Duke of Richmond and Gordon (then Lord March) in the 1990s.