Classic Motorsport Photos

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Are my eyes deceiving me, or did I see snow in that first pic from Brands Hatch?


They used to hold an annual Boxing Day meeting at Brands Hatch (15,000 spectators used to turn up!) - so i'd imagine that the photo is from then.
 
The greatest race of them all?

1957 German Grand Prix

Winner: Juan Manuel Fangio ARG
Car: #1 Maserati 250F (2.5L Maserati I6)

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The greatest race of them all?

1957 German Grand Prix

Winner: Juan Manuel Fangio ARG
Car: #1 Maserati 250F (2.5L Maserati I6)

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Maestro :bowdown::bowdown::bowdown:

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A few years back, when it was the 100th anniversary of his birth, there was a reunion of many cars he raced in my city, from touring and sport to formula. The #1 Maserati was next to the 1955 Mercedes he raced in Monza. Best day ever.
 
The Kiwis, Denny Hulme and Bruce McLaren sits on their new DFV-powered M7As at Jarama for the 1968 Spanish GP. This is the first time that McLaren's team fielded two cars for a world championship race.

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Pedro Rodriguez makes a long, unwanted walk back the Hockenheimring's pit after his BRM suffered mechanical failure during the 1970 German GP. The two other cars flying by the walking Rodriguez are the Brabham of Rolf Stommelen and the Lotus of Emerson Fittipaldi, on their way to point-scoring finishes.

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After retiring his Surtees to due suspension problems, Carlos Pace takes in a trackside Molson at Watkins Glen during the US Grand Prix in 1973. A difficult weekend for the whole F1 paddock up to that point.

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Patrick Depailler sits waiting in his stripped down Tyrrell P34 while the team makes adjustments for the high-speed Hockenheimring in 1977.

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Guy Ligier sits behind the wheel in one of his team's JS11 while James Hunt and Niki Lauda makes use of the car as a place to eat their lunch on in 1979.

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There's something about that last one that looks very much like a fake.
They both appear to be floating off the edge of the sidepod. James' elbow also seems to be impaled on the roll hoop.
 
1955 Le Mans 24 Hours Start

Winners: Mike Hawthorn ENG & Ivor Bueb ENG
Car: #6 Jaguar D-Type (3.4L Jaguar I6)


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#20 is the Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR of John Fitch & Pierre Levegh and #26 is the Austin-Healey 100S of Les Leston & Lance Macklin, the two cars which were involved in Levegh and the crowd's fatal accident on lap 32.

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Graham Hill, 1963

Driving a replica of the 1896 Ford Quadricyle, the first Ford.

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1967 Mexican Grand Prix

Driver: Jim Clark SCO
Car: Lotus 49 (3.0L Cosworth V8)
Finished: 1st


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1969 Canadian Grand Prix

Driver: Al Pease CAN
Car: Eagle Mk I (2.8L Climax I4)
Finished: DSQ


The only driver in Formula One history to ever be black flagged for driving too slowly.

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Grassroots-level racing at the old Ancol circuit located in North Jakarta, Indonesia. Photo most likely taken during the early 1980s.

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Bonkers drag-spec FC3S RX-7, moments before launching off the line at a half/quarter mile drag event somewhere in Indonesia. Photo taken sometime in the 1990s.

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An even more bonkers Mazda B600 set up for the quarter mile. Rumours say this car was powered by either a Fiat Uno turbo engine, a 13B, or even a Chevy V8. Photo taken during the same event as above.

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Newspaper scan of the same event, featuring both cars after the green light.

 
I've been away from a PC for a while. Normal service to be resumed. Today's theme:

Test Driver Special

Not so much 'classic' than 'rare and unusual'.

Silverstone, 1990

Driver: Allan McNish SCO
Car: McLaren MP4/5B (3.5L Honda V10)


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Firebird Raceway, 1992

Driver: Ayrton Senna BRA
Car: Penske PC21 (2.65L turbocharged Chevrolet V8)


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Estoril, 1994

Driver: Paul Tracy CAN
Car: Benetton B194 (3.5L Ford V8)

His fastest time at this test was just 0.7 seconds off Berger's pole time that year, and would have put him 5th on the grid.


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Barcelona, 1997

Driver: Tom Kristensen DEN
Car: Minardi M197 (3.0L Hart V8)

The car is a 1997 car testing the upcoming 1998 grooved Bridgestones.


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Barcelona, 1999

Driver: Tom Coronel NED
Car: Arrows A20 (3.0L Arrows-Hart V10)


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Barcelona, 1997

Driver: Tom Kristensen DEN
Car: Minardi M197 (3.0L Hart V8)

The car is a 1997 car testing the upcoming 1998 grooved Bridgestones.


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Its hard to believe Tom was overlooked by Gerald Forsythe for Patrick Carpentier in the 97/ 98 champ car seasons,
 
Test Driver Bonus

Driver: Gilles Villeneuve CAN
Car: Ferrari 312 T2

Bodywork not yet ready.


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Donington Park, 1983

Driver: Ayrton Senna BRA
Car: Williams FW08C


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The Unraced

Lola T95/30 (3.5L Ford V8)

Lola had always desired to enter Formula One as a team in its own right. After its final customer car, Scuderia Italia's T93/30, Lola started designing a car for itself and it was tested extensively by Allan McNish in late 1994 and 1995. The T95/30 was designed only as a prototype whilst the team found backing, eventually securing MasterCard and leading to 1997's disasterous T97/30.

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DAMS GC-01 (3.0L Ford V8)

With Erik Comas behind the wheel, DAMS were all set to enter Formula One in 1996. A combination of a conservative design, lack of finance and skepticism about beating the new 107% rule saw them fail to meet the deadline for entry to the 1996 championship. All this despite having an actual, completed and fully prepared, if uncompetitive, car.

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And Now For Something Completely Different...

No real place for it but come on, Jonathan Palmer and Martin Brundle in wastcoats.

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Just stumbled across this Flickr album of F1 people from various test events in the 70s, 80s and 90s.

That's awesome. Really great to see the ones from the 1970s.

They might use the same repository but the Autosport forum has a decent thread for test photos too. Nothing particularly special about them but it's really interesting to see some drivers in cars you never thought they were in.

Some were genuine tests looking for drives:

Catalunya, 1996

Driver: Nigel Mansell ENG
Car: Jordan 196 (3.0L Peugeot V10)


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Others were shakedowns as a favour:

Silverstone, 1991

Driver: John Watson NIR
Car: Jordan 191 (3.5L Ford V8)

Watson was actually the first person to turn a wheel in a Jordan Grand Prix car.
You'll also note the prototype name for the car.


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2002

Driver: Jean Alesi FRA
Car: McLaren MP4/16B (3.0L Mercedes-Benz V10)


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And some were just for fun:

Brands Hatch, 1983

Driver: Stirling Moss ENG
Car: Brabham BT52 (1.5L turbocharged BMW I4)


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Silverstone, 2002

Driver: Niki Lauda AUT
Car: Jaguar R2 (3.0L Ford V10)


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Thanks again for making this thread of the year. Let's keep those pictures coming. Here's a celebratory, bumper random mixture.

Formula One

1951 British Grand Prix

Driver: Jose Frolian Gonzalez ARG
Car: Ferrari 375 F1 (4.5L Ferrari V12)
Finished: 1st

The first Ferrari win.


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1952 British Grand Prix

Driver: Piero Taruffi ITA
Car: Ferrari 500 (2.0L Ferrari I4)
Finished: 2nd


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1961 Oulton Park Gold Cup

Driver: Stirling Moss ENG
Car: Ferguson P99 (1.5L Coventry-Climax I4)
Finished: 1st

The first four-wheel drive Formula One car and the only one to have any modicum of success, winning this non-championship race thanks to the damp conditions. It also holds the distinction of being the last front-engined car to win any Formula One event.

Only six other 4WD F1 cars are known to have existed: BRM P67, Lotus 63, Matra MS84, McLaren M9A, Cosworth 4WD and the Lotus 56B all coming during the experimental 4WD boom across 1969-1971. The six-wheeled Matra 2-4-0 and Williams FW08D were also technically 'four-wheel' drive.


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1968 German Grand Prix

Driver: Jackie Stewart SCO
Car: Matra MS10 (3.0L Ford V8)
Finished: 1st

This was the greatest race of Stewart's career. In appalling conditions on the Nordschleife, Stewart was driving with a broken wrist and won the race by four minutes.


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Driver: Dan Gurney USA
Car: Eagle Mk1 (3.0L Westlake V8)
Finished: 9th

This race was also a first as Dan Gurney became the first driver to race with a full-face helmet.


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Rallying

1971 Rally of the Ivory Coast

Car: Citroen DS

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1978 Rally de Monte Carlo

Driver: Sandro Munari ITA & Sodano Piero ITA
Car: Lancia Stratos HF
Finished: Ret


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Unknown

Car: Mercedes-Benz SLC

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Touring Cars

1971 Spa 24 Hours

Drivers: Hans Heyer GER & Clemens Schtickentanz GER
Car: Mercedes-Benz 300SEL (6.8L Mercedes-Benz V8)
Finished: 2nd

The legendary red pig in action.


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1984 Spa 24 Hours

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Brands Hatch, 1989

The end of Group A racing was the result of the Ford Sierra's extreme dominance.

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From F1 Porn on Reddit:

"1977 US Grand Prix - Ferrari mechanics have dinner on their 312T2, which would finish 4th or 6th to to winner James Hunt."

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Graham Hill - BRM P261 - 1965 - British GP

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François Cevert & Helmut Marko (Tyrrell 003 & BRM P180) - 1972 Monaco Grand Prix

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