Their Mercedes-powered cars lapped the field by the race's midpoint and were not seriously challenged in speed during practice, qualifuing or the race.

By that time the Gipsy-Lotus was in the lead and the first four cars had lapped one of the Bentleys.

An attendant has to manually unlock each cars lap bars.

The blue-sticker cars lined up on the inside, the orange-sticker cars on the outside, and lapped cars to the rear on all restarts.

But there was the quiet satisfaction, if stripped for action, the car could lap Brooklands at 100 mph, the makers guaranteed that.

Any remaining cars on the circuit race to the finish line and complete they lap they are on.

The car also lapped the Top Gear test track in 1:19.1, just 0.1 seconds slower than the Ferrari Enzo.

The blue car, riding high on the banking, took the lead, but by the end of the next lap the fastest cars were lapping the slowest.

The car could now lap the Lindley high speed track at 104 m.p.h.

Silverstone, which was already a very fast circuit, was becoming faster and faster and the cars were lapping the circuit in the low 1-minute range.