Classic Motorsport Photos

[SVPSkins]

917 doing the rounds at leman

 

[Turbo]

airborne!

 

[Formidable]

Chaparral 2F cornering La Source at Spa

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[Panoz]

Group 5

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[TDZdave]

That crowd in the last photo at Norisring, that's mad! We dont see crowds like that anymore...

 

[Roo]

That crowd in the last photo at Norisring, that's mad! We dont see crowds like that anymore...

 

[TDZdave]

What was it like in 2015?

 

[Liquid]

 

[G_Parrilla]

The Daytona 24 is coming!

Some from the 1971 fire-breathing #23 Ferrari:

And some duct tape fixes...

 

[Roo]

What was it like in 2015?

 

[Liquid]

1972-1985 Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft

 

[Liquid]

1931 Le Mans 24 Hours

Winners: Francis Curzon ENG & Henry Birkin ENG
Car: #16 Alfa Romeo 8C (2.3L supercharged Alfa Romeo I8)
Laps: 184

Drivers: Goffredo Zehender ITA & Attilio Marinoni ITA / Éduoard Brisson FRA & Joseph Cattaneo ITA
Cars: #14 Alfa Romeo 8C (2.3L supercharged Alfa Romeo I8) & #3 Stutz DV32 (5.3L supercharged Stutz I8)
Finished: DNF & DNF

 

[G_Parrilla]

It's Rally Sweden time!

1968

1973

1978

1983

1985

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[Liquid]

That is a very rare Group B RX-7. Fantastic to see.

 

[marco89IT]

More Rally Sweden


1976 - Allansson/Jagarstedt, Bmw 2002

1981 - Blomqvist/Cederberg, Saab 99 Turbo

1982 - Blomqvist/Cederberg, Audi Quattro

1982 - Rohrl/Geistdorfer, Opel Ascona 400

1986 - Kankkunen/Piironen, Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 E2

 

[Legro]

1978 Monte Carlo Rally

 

[RazorSharkz]

I'm surprised this hadn't been posted. Former 3 time Nascar Grand National Championship winner (now called the Nascar Sprint Cup) Tim Flock with Nascar's only race winning monkey (insert jokes here). Jocko Flocko rode along with Flock during his May 16, 1953 win at Hickory Motor Speedway. Jocko Flocko rode along with Flock for a grand total of 8 races before an incident involving the monkey being hit with a rock between the eyes forced Flock to pull of the track and lose a comfortable lead to have a monkey removed from his car.

 

[TDZdave]

Puts a literal meaning to the term 'grease monkey'

 

[Pete05]

I cannot believe I've only just found this magnificent thread

 

[lxmmy]

Chris Amon in a works 512S, 1970 Brands Hatch 1000km.

Gilles Villeneuve with the 126C, 1981.

Niki Lauda in the 312T, 1975 Nurburgring.

412P, 1967 Le Mans.

 

[Liquid]

1967 German Grand Prix

Driver: Jackie Oliver ENG
Car: Lotus 48 (1.6L Ford I4) (F2 entry)
Finished: 5th (1st in class)

1989 Australian Grand Prix

Drivers: Alain Prost FRA & Ayrton Senna BRA
Cars: McLaren MP4/5 (3.5L Honda V10)
Finished: Ret (Withdrew after first lap red flag) & Ret (Accident)

Martin Donnelly's Jerez Crash, 1990 Spanish Grand Prix

Lotus 102 (3.5L Lamborghini V12)

Incredibly, Donnelly survived such an accident but he suffered brain and lung contusions as well as severe leg fractures, the latter of which almost necessitated the amputation of his right leg.

That really is the gearstick from his H-box sticking out from the car.

1999 British Grand Prix

Driver: Mika Häkkinen FIN
Car: McLaren MP4/14 (3.0L Mercedes-Benz V10)
Finished: Ret (Loose wheel)

 

[Furinkazen]

Any image of Donnellys crash gives me the chills.

 

[Scaff]

While not photographs, the motorsport photographer and artist Jayson Fong created 24 drawings/paintings for last years 24hrs Le Mans. Some of my favorites were:

http://formandfunctionintl.com/24forlm24-24-artworks-in-24hours/

 

[G_Parrilla]

1965 Daytona 500.

 

[GTPorsche]

1976 Daytona 500. David Hobbs (73) in his first of 2 NASCAR Winston Cup Series starts. The 52 was his teammate for the race, Earl Ross. Both would fail to finish the race. Ross blew an engine on lap 35 and Hobbs crashed on lap 68.

 

[RazorSharkz]

Nothing makes me smile like seeing 60s/70s pictures of Daytona. Not to sound overly patriotic or anything, but what a show of pure American beauty.

 

[Northstar]

Nothing makes me smile like seeing 60s/70s pictures of Daytona. Not to sound overly patriotic or anything, but what a show of pure American beauty.

Not to mention the cars looked like the cars on the street.

 

[Whodoyouthink]

Wonder why they did away with the lanes? In addition, wonder why some tracks kept them?

 

[GTPorsche]

They just never repainted them when the tracks were resurfaced.

 

[Liquid]

Early OBCs