The Brooklands Motor Racing circuit in Surrey is owed a lot of birthday candles this year as it reaches the grand old age of 110.

To celebrate the birth place of the British Grand Prix we’d like to share 110 of its amazing facts but to save on time for now we’ll stick to 10 of them – so on your marks, get set, go….

1. Measuring up: The original concrete track was 2.75miles long, 100 feet wide with banking at either end reaching 30 feet in places, that’s as tall as two giraffes stood on top of each other!

2. One man’s dream: The track was the idea of local land owner Hugh Locke King. A huge feat of engineering, the track was finished in nine months and swallowed all his personal fortune the equivalent of around £16million today. Once completed it was the world’s first purpose built motor…