Can I clarify - the car went off the road (a Bugatti driven by a student from Oxford in 1925! The hill had been in use from 1910 to 1925 very successfully until the incident. No-one was killed but sufficient injuries occurred to make the government place the ban for England.
Birmingham Superprix required an act of Parliament in order for it to be run.
Let's hope the MSA is successful in its lobbying of all the political parties and that events such as Kop Hill help persuade the government it would be the right thing to do
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