No, I haven't taken it to Brooklands, that would be a 500 mile round trip in an open car in English weather.No radio of course. Actually I did drive it one very hot June day to compete at North Weald which was a 400 mile round trip.Very uncomfortable in a crash helmet for all that length of time, so these days I wear a snorkel tube and goggles. The car is better suited to the faster sprints and hillclimbs because on something like the Brooklands test hill I'd be in third at the top: the quickest off the line technique with this car is sidestep off the clutch at 6000rpm in first, immediately shift to second then immediately shift to third, then stay in third for the entire hillclimb(obviously using 4th-over 140mph possible in that gear- and possibly fifth on very long straights only during a sprint)