The Brooklands Society has received an MSA permit to run a new 2010 motorsport championship and it has selected two historic, solid silver, trophies from its archive treasure store to present to the winners.

The new championship, open to genuine Brooklands cars which competed at the Weybridge track at any time from 1907 to 1939, will be based on all this year's Vintage Sports-Car Club meetings. There will be one award for best aggregate performance against handicap in the six 2010 VSCC hillclimbs and sprints, and one for best aggregate results in all the "Short Handicap" races at each of this year's six VSCC race meetings.

The race award will be the cup won by Harry Rose in the May 1936 International Trophy race at Brooklands in a supercharged Maserati.

The speed events cup is the trophy presented at the May 1935 International Trophy meeting to MG driver Doreen Evans.

The winners will retain the trophies for a year and will also receive a commemorative bound book recording their achievement and the history of the trophies to keep in perpetuity.

Announcing the new championship, the Society's Competition Co-ordinator Mike Hopper said "One of the aims of our Society is to keep alive not just the spirit and soul of Brooklands but the memory of the men, women and cars which competed there.

What better way to do that than to recognise the many genuine Brooklands cars which still compete actively today and to give their drivers the chance to have a piece of real Brooklands history on their sideboards for 12 months?"

No registration is needed for the new championship - eligible cars will automatically accrue points based on their results in the relevant 2010 VSCC events - but drivers can start the eligibility checking process quickly and get a copy of the championship Regulations by selecting the Supplementary Regulations menu link at the left hand side of this page.

The Society has also confirmed that this year it will be continuing the individual event awards which it successfully introduced in 2009.

Four engraved Society tankards will go to the best performance against handicap by genuine Brooklands cars at all the main 2010 vintage meetings at pre-war venues which this year will be the VSCC's sprint at Brooklands in June, the vintage Shelsley and Prescott hillclimbs in July and August, and the VSCC "See Red" race meeting at Donington in October.

Welcoming the new 2010 programme, VSCC General Secretary Mike Stripe said "I am so glad the Brooklands Society has chosen VSCC events as the vehicle for its sporting awards and championship, and I look forward to a close association for many years to come".

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 and heritage of the Brooklands track and it publishes a widely-acclaimed quarterly magazine on Brooklands history, the Brooklands Society Gazette.