The second 2009 Brooklands Society Award, for best performance against handicap by a car which competed at Brooklands in period, was won at vintage Prescott on August 1-2 by Peter Swete's 1930 Talbot 90.

Starting life as a single-seater, this former works car was originally managed by Fox and Nicholl,  It finished 1st in class and 4th overall in the 1930 BRDC 500 mile race at Brooklands driven by Lord Howe and The Hon. Brian Lewis (later Lord Essendon), who also used it to take six British and International Class D records that year.  It was back at the track successfully in 1931 and 1932 before being re-bodied into its present two-seater form and used as a road car by Roland Hebelea.

The Talbot, registered GX 68, resumed its competiton career post-war in 1947 at the VSCC Gransden Lodge meeting, and at Prescott in 1948 it was 1st in the 3 Litre Sports Car Class.  It is still actively campaigned today by current owner Peter Swete, who took it to class 2nd and 1st vintage wins at the August Prescott meeting - more than 50 years after its successful debut there.    

A third Brooklands Society Award, in the form of an engraved trophy, will be made at the VSCC's  last
2009 speed event at a pre-war venue, the Donington race meeting on 6th September.  The trophies will be presented at the Society’s annual dinner in the Brooklands clubhouse at Weybridge in November.

The Brooklands Society, not connected with the Brooklands Museum, was formed in 1967 by Bill Boddy MBE.  It is dedicated to preserving and promoting the history of the Brooklands track and the cars, motor-cycles and aeroplanes which appeared there from 1907 to 1939.  It publishes a widely-acclaimed quarterly magazine on Brooklands history, the Brooklands Society Gazette.  Annual membership costs £30, and the Society’s website is at www.brooklands-society.co.uk