Formula 1 cars reverberated around Brands Hatch just weeks after the legendary Grand Prix circuit turned 60 years old.

The West Kingsdown track's longer 2.4-mile route – which boasts an historic woodland section – held its first major car meeting on August 1 1960.

Jack Brabham, driving a Cooper T53, won the inaugural event – a non-championship F1 thrash dubbed the Silver City Trophy.

The circuit hosted its last Grand Prix in 1986, but the Masters Historic Formula 1 championship brought a taste of motorsport's highest level back to north Kent last weekend.

Former F1 star Johnny Herbert drove an Ensign N180B, finishing fifth in the opening race on Saturday.

But the 1985 Formula Ford Festival winner was ruled out of the second race on Sunday with a gear-linkage problem.

Here, KM photographer Simon Hildrew captures some of the best of the action from across the weekend...

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Brands Hatch hosts the British GT Championship this weekend.

In April, KentOnline published 51 photos of the county's race circuits as lockdown continued.

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