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enabled the full width of the straight to be used and allowed the layout of the chicane at the top of the Finishing Straight to be altered. The race itself also started half-way around the circuit, on the Railway Straight, rather than from the 1926 start at the junction of the Finishing Straight and the Members' Banking, meaning that the race distance was actually 124 and a half laps.
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A similar circuit was used as in the race the previous year, that is using the Finishing Straight, on which two sandbank chicanes were constructed. However, the footbridge across the Finishing Straight, which in 1926 had two supports on the track itself, had been rebuilt as a single-span, which
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circuit on 1 October 1927. It was the fifth and final race of the 1927
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team's already-unassailable lead in the Championship.
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did not start as they broke an oil pump in practice.
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Index

1927 World Manufacturers' Championship
Royal Automobile Club
Surrey
England
Brooklands
Podium
France
Robert Benoist
Delage
France
Edmond Bourlier
Delage
France
Albert Divo
Delage
Royal Automobile Club
Grand Prix
motor race
Brooklands
AIACR
World Manufacturers' Championship
season
Robert Benoist
Delage
France
Robert Benoist
Delage
France
Edmond Bourlier
Delage

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