Image Credit: Ben Rice By Travelbinger

“Destroy the tires!” shouts a young spectator as a 1969 Ford GT40 screams past me. I am standing at the edge of a rural lane bisecting the grounds of Britain’s National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, Hampshire. The occasion: Beaulieu’s annual Supercar Weekend in the heart of England’s ancient New Forest National Park.

This Panama hat-toting young reveler’s antics are causing a disturbance among the reserved participants who paid the modest £30 entrance fee. “Burn them!” he shrieks, holding a rather dated-looking camcorder aloft. “More revs, please!”

Britain’s Petrolheads Gather in a Forest

At first, his volume makes the congregation of British car enthusiasts somewhat uncomfortable — this is England, after all. Yet, these stoic daytrippers soon war

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