TOP GEAR MAGAZINE-Nov1963The year 1952 isn’t such a staggering reach into the past if you’re talking about national history, but when it comes to sports car activities, its way, back! There wasn’t any Brandywine Motorsport Club; in fact, if our memory is correct, there wasn’t even a British Motor Corporation. The precious few sports car events of any kind were mostly races such as Watkins Glen and Bridgehampton, but there was a rapidly burgeoning group of independent thinkers who found that driving could be fun. In that year, with most such non-conformists driving MGs, a group of Wilmingtonians established the Wilmington Sub-Centre of the’ MG Car Club.
