JDC 70th Anniversary Weekend

The 2026 JDC National Weekend celebrates our 70th Anniversary with a special dinner at the Oatlands Park Hotel on Saturday 11 July and a full day at Brooklands Museum on Sunday 12 July.

National Weekend

We were last at Brooklands Museum in 2022 for a very successful event celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of Swallow Sidecars and are looking forward to returning to what is an excellent location full of aviation and automobile history. Join us for the JDC's annual celebration of all things Jaguar and Daimler, including the 70th anniversary of the formation of the Jaguar Drivers' Club in 1956.

We have reserved rooms at both the Brooklands and Oatlands Park Hotels for the night of Saturday 11 July with an option to stay an extra night if required, with our event dinner booked at the Oatlands for the Saturday evening. For those of you staying at the Brooklands Hotel we have laid on a minibus to transfer you to/from the dinner at Oatlands Park.

Full details for both Brooklands and Oatlands Park hotels are in the Member section at the base of this web page.

N.B. the hotel room rates do not include the Event Dinner or entry to the Brooklands Museum on the Sunday. 

See information in the Booking box to the right.

Tickets for the event dinner will need to be booked in advance at £74.95 each and the event is scheduled to start with welcome drinks at 7:00pm for a 7:30pm start. The dress code is lounge suit, or smart jacket with collared shirt, black tie is optional..

Join us for a full weekend of activities.  We are planning a short, optional, tour for the Saturday afternoon, although we know that any concours competitors are more likely to spend your time on Saturday afternoon completing some final prep ready for the Sunday..

National Day - Sunday 12 July

Gates Open 09:00 am

We have ample parking booked for several hundred cars and are planning allocated parking for: Timeline Display; Concours Competitions; Pre-war cars; XK120 to XK150 and the various Areas who have requested space.

Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust

The Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust (JDHT) has always supported our headline events, and for this anniversary year we have sent an especially ambitious list of cars we hope they will bring. JDHT have now confirmed the cars they are bringing to Brooklands.  Their long-nose Reims winning D-type 393 RW was built in 1956, the year the Club was founded, so this one will be in pride of place as the 1956 Sports Car in our Timeline.  The other four cars they will be bringing will all be offering passenger rides up the Test Hill at 11:30 and 14:30.

• World famous rally winning XK120 NUB 120
• The first E-type 77 RW
• The last E-type HDU 555N
• One of the fastest F-types built a Project 7

JDHT will be requesting a donation for the passenger rides and all monies go towards the work JDHT do in preserving the heritage of Jaguar Cars Ltd and its associated marques for future generations. If you want to take advantage of this unique opportunity to be driven up the Brooklands Test Hill in one of these historic cars click here.

A Timeline of Jaguars Celebrating 70 Years of the Club

After the enthusiastic response to our timeline display In the Jaguar HQ building at Gaydon in October, we are creating an eye-catching centre-piece at Brooklands, directly in front of the Clubhouse.  Rather than trying to assemble 70 cars, we plan to curate a focused set of members’ cars featuring two from each of the milestone years: 1956, 1966, 1976, 1986, 1996, 2006, and 2016, with one sports car and one saloon car per year.  These will be arranged in 'pole position' along the railings in front of the Brooklands Clubhouse.   Anyone interested in including their cars in this timeline should email Tony Merrygold direct.

Furthest Driven Trophies

We know that our members are happy to travel long distances for a special event and a number of our European members have already confirmed they have booked the date in their diaries and to welcome you we will be offering two trophies:

• Furthest Driven - from within the UK
• Furthest Driven - from outside the UK

As with concours, entrants for this will need to arrive in their own Jaguar or Daimler etc.  So while we will welcome visitors from across the pond, down under, or indeed anywhere else, sadly miles flown in for the event won't count towards the furthest driven mileage.

Concours Competitions

Following the success of the 2025 concours we are planning to repeat our two tier competition.  See separate page for Concours at Brooklands

Trader & Sponsorship Opportunities 

We have space at Brooklands for a number of traders, and opportunities for companies to sponsor the event at a number of different levels, covering increasing levels of advertising and social media promotion.  Download the Sponsorship PDF - in the 'Downloads' box to the right for full details.

Please note that details are subject to change. For events not organised by Jaguar Drivers' Club, please verify information with the event organisers.