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When a company has been in business for as long as Motul, it can look back on a rich and varied history and heritage.  Of course, it is not alone in this respect and in the world of motorsport it has shared much on track success and decades of technological development with the infamous 24 Hours of Le Mans in France.   

In the UK, motorsport history stretches back even further and to celebrate this Motul has agreed a new partnership with Brooklands Museum in Surrey, an hour from central London.  The world's first purpose-built motor racing circuit opened at Brooklands in 1907, and now plays host to an amazing collection of motorsport and aviation history.  

It is also the location for the Double Twelve Motorsport Festival which this year takes place on 17/18th June – the same weekend as the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The two-day motorsport extravaganza features speed trials and driving tests, a Concours d’Elegance, and plenty of family-friendly entertainment and activities.

Many of the vehicles in the Museum will now benefit from using Motul’s market-leading Historic Vehicles range, which will also be available for sale in the Museum Shop. Classics require lubricants with special formulations and Motul’s specially formulated range of 4 engine oils respect the characteristics of historic vehicles. From engine oil, gear oil, rear axle oil, brake fluids and fuel additives to maintenance and care products, Motul offers a wide range of products of a consistently high quality to help maintain the value of engineering masterpieces from days gone by.

Did you know…?

Before the first race was even run, Brooklands was the venue for a speed record attempt. A few days after the ceremonial opening of the Motor Course in June 1907, Mr Selwyn Francis Edge used the track for establishing a 24-hour record. With hundreds of lanterns and bright flares to mark the limits of the track, Edge drove his Napier for the whole 24 hours, covering 1581 miles (2544 km) at an average speed of almost 66 miles (106 km/h) an hour. Last year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans winners covered 3251 miles (5233 km) at an average speed of 135 miles per hour (218 km/h)…

ABOUT MOTUL

Motul is a world-class French company specialised in the formulation, production and distribution of high-tech engine lubricants (two-wheelers, cars and other vehicles) as well as lubricants for industry via its Motultech activity. 

Motul is also recognised as the specialist in synthetic lubricants. As early as 1971, Motul was the first lubricant manufacturer to pioneer the formulation of a 100% synthetic lubricant for automotive engines, the 300V lubricant, making use of Esters technology and issued from the aeronautical industry. 

Throughout the years, Motul has gained experience as an official supplier to many racing teams and manufacturers and contributes with them to further technological development in motorsports. 

Motul is supporting those teams in international competitions such as: 24 Hours of Le Mans (cars and motorcycles), FIA World Endurance Championship, IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, Super GT, Drift, Japanese championship Super Formula, Blancpain Endurance Series, Dakar, Tour Auto, Le Mans Classic, MotoGP, World Superbike, World MX, FIM Endurance World Championship, IOM TT, MOTUL FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Roof of Africa and score of others.

ABOUT BROOKLANDS MUSEUM

The World’s first purpose-built motor-racing circuit opened at Brooklands in June 1907. It quickly became a focal point for motor racing, aircraft production and flying and a destination of choice for 1920s and ‘30s high society. The earliest flight trials took place there as early as 1908 and it attracted many famous drivers of the time including Malcolm Campbell and John Cobb.

Today those halcyon days of racing and flying are evoked at Brooklands Museum through a yearround programme of events and activities and a welcome to visitors from all over the world to see and experience a vast collections of vintage racing cars, motorcycles, bicycles and aircraft.

On 17th June 2017, exactly 110 years to the day since the circuit first opened, scores of cars and motorcycles which competed on that hallowed concrete will celebrate the re-opening of a section of the track which hasn’t seen motoring action since 1940. They include the biggest-engined cars ever to race or appear at the Track, most of the team which won the first two British Grands Prix here in 1926/7, and the first Bentley ever to win a race. The re-opening of the Finishing Straight by the Earl of March will be a highlight of the Museum’s annual Brooklands Double Twelve Motorsport Festival, taking place over the whole weekend of 17th- 18th June, and marks the completion of the first stage of the £8.1million Heritage Lottery-funded Brooklands Aircraft Factory and Race Track Revival Project.

www.brooklandsmuseum.com