The Ghost of Brooklands

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Few stories haunt Brooklands like that of Percy Lambert - the first man to drive 100 miles in an hour, killed months later on the same track. Simon Furber returns to the spot where triumph became tragedy - and where Lambert’s ghost still seems to linger. Image: Percy Lambert in his Talbot Special, breaking the 103 miles in one hour record in 1913 (Getty Images)