Classic Motorsport Photos

[Liquid]

Edit: All links broken.

 

[Roo]

1973 United States Grand Prix. Jackie Stewart leads Emerson Fittipaldi in practice or qualifying against the backdrop of a New York State autumn. Stewart didn't race after teammate François Cevert died in Saturday qualifying; Fittipaldi finished 6th.

 

[Liquid]

1967 Italian Grand Prix

Drivers: John Surtees ENG, Jack Brabham AUS
Cars: Honda RA300 (3.0L Honda V12), Brabham BT24 (3.0L Repco V8)
Finished: 1st, 2nd (+0.2s)

 

[ScottPuss20]

Dad bought a book at Sandown Historics titled The Great Race from 1991 after seeing a picture of him working for Dunlop in it. There are some fantastic photos of the 1991 ATCC championship and the Bathurst 1000 that I'm going to have to show here.

 

[Pete05]

Dad bought a book at Sandown Historics titled The Great Race from 1991 after seeing a picture of him working for Dunlop in it. There are some fantastic photos of the 1991 ATCC championship and the Bathurst 1000 that I'm going to have to show here.

Those books are the best annuals to cover the Bathurst 1000 ever printed.
Written by the legendary Bill Tuckey, they make for great reading and cover every car in the race from the winner to the first DNF.

I have the books that cover the races from 1983-87, including doubles for 85 & 86, if you are interested?

I was also at Sandown over the weekend & enjoy the historic meetings more than the modern offering.

 

[Liquid]

Caesars Palace Grand Prix (1981-82)

1981

Pole Position: Carlos Reutemann ARG
Winner: Alan Jones AUS

1982

Pole Position: Alain Prost FRA
Winner: Michele Alboreto ITA

 

[TheCracker]

How it looked then and where that circuit was situated now:

 

[toastet]

Part around the sphere is wrong but you get the scale.

 

[Liquid]

How it looked then and where that circuit was situated now:


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Tilke would be proud.

 

[TheCracker]

Tilke would be proud.

It had all the charm of an indoor karting track.

 

[MagpieRacer]

It had all the charm of an indoor karting track.

That’s offensive to indoor karting tracks.

 

[Pupik]

It had all the charm of an indoor karting track.

In 1982, they painted the corner numbers on the track, so they wouldn't look exactly alike. Or at least, that was my guess after watching it on the F1 archive. They removed a lot of the concrete barriers between the two races to make look a little less confining and maybe a little safer.

 

[RYAN]

"Raymond Mays, who later went on to be leader at English Racing Automobiles(ERA) and at British Racing Motors (BRM), loses a wheel from his Bugatti Brescia at The Caerphilly Hill Climb in 1924."

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This is not what I expected to see flipping back through this thread 😄👍 I'm from Caerphilly and had no Idea The Caerphilly Hillclimb was a thing. I wonder where abouts it was ran 🤔

 

[toastet]

They (or better the Caesars Palace) actually planned a double header at the Vegas parking lot for '82 with CART ("Indycar") and they would've removed barriers between series so CART had an oval with ~5 corners on the outside straights of the F1 track. You can see the straight in the maps from T1 to T10/11. You could imagine what a tough challenge the organisation was with lots of egos on both sides in CART and F1/FISA (FIA). In the end it didn't take place since F1 had to run on Saturday due to the european audience and CART should've raced afterwards. F1 as pre-show to CART? Not with FISA. They switched the racedate for F1 to the end of September where CART "sadly" had a race in Mischigan the same weekend.

 

[Jimlaad43]

This photo may only be 1 day old, but the artistry of it is superb.

 

[Pete05]

They (or better the Caesars Palace) actually planned a double header at the Vegas parking lot for '82 with CART ("Indycar") and they would've removed barriers between series so CART had an oval with ~5 corners on the outside straights of the F1 track. You can see the straight in the maps from T1 to T10/11. You could imagine what a tough challenge the organisation was with lots of egos on both sides in CART and F1/FISA (FIA). In the end it didn't take place since F1 had to run on Saturday due to the european audience and CART should've raced afterwards. F1 as pre-show to CART? Not with FISA. They switched the racedate for F1 to the end of September where CART "sadly" had a race in Mischigan the same weekend.

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Enough political domestic BS between USAC & CART without trying to play nice buddy buddy with the Bernie & Balestre club too.

This photo may only be 1 day old, but the artistry of it is superb.
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Angle parking.

 

[Jimlaad43]

 

[Liquid]

1990 British Touring Car Championship, Birmingham

Drivers: #11 Robb Gravett ENG, Andy Rouse ENG
Car: Ford Sierra RS500
Finished: DNF (engine), 1st

 

[Roo]

Under the supervision of Colin Chapman, Jim Clark tries out the seating position of a Ferrari 156 in the Nurburgring pits in 1962:

From Facebook

 

[Pete05]

Under the supervision of Colin Chapman, Jim Clark tries out the seating position of a Ferrari 156 in the Nurburgring pits in 1962:

From Facebook

I wonder what the circumstances were, surrounding this unusual situation? 🤔

 

[Liquid]

Better to ask for forgiveness than permission.

 

[TheCracker]

I wonder what the circumstances were, surrounding this unusual situation? 🤔

The arm behind Clark on the roll hoop is wearing a Dunlop race suit (with the distinctive striped elasticated cuffs) which several of the Ferrari drivers wore at the time. I imagine Jim just asked the Ferrari driver (Baghetti or Rodriguez, the others retired) if he could have a sit in it and they happily obliged. Different times back then.

 

[Pupik]

The arm behind Clark on the roll hoop is wearing a Dunlop race suit (with the distinctive striped elasticated cuffs) which several of the Ferrari drivers wore at the time. I imagine Jim just asked the Ferrari driver (Baghetti or Rodriguez, the others retired) if he could have a sit in it and they happily obliged. Different times back then.

Ferrari had gone south from championship leaders the year before, so anything could have helped. Lotus, BRM, and Cooper were more dominant.

 

[Liquid]

1993 Australian Grand Prix

Drivers (f-b):
#8 Ayrton Senna BRA
#2 Alain Prost FRA
#5 Michael Schumacher GER
#0 Damon Hill ENG
#28 Gerhard Berger AUT
#7 Mika Häkkinen FIN

Cars:
McLaren MP4/8 (3.5L Ford V8)
Williams FW15C (3.5L Renault V10)
Benetton B193 (3.5L Ford V8)
Ferrari F93A (3.5L Ferrari V12)

Finished: 1st, 2nd, DNF (engine), 3rd, 5th, DNF (brakes)

 

[Pete05]

1993 Australian Grand Prix

Drivers (f-b): #8 Ayrton Senna BRA, #2 Alain Prost FRA, #5 Michael Schumacher GER, #0 Damon Hill ENG, #28 Gerhard Berger AUT, #7 Mika Häkkinen FIN
Cars: McLaren MP4/8 (3.5L Ford V8), Willaims FW15C (3.5L Renault V10), Benetton B193 (3.5L Ford V8), Ferrari F93A (3.5L Ferrari V12)
Finished: 1st, 2nd, DNF (engine), 3rd, 5th, DNF (brakes)

The great man's final victory.

Determination & skill triumph over those better equipped to succeed on the day.

 

[TheCracker]

Berger being the non-worldchamp interloper. (Alessi too, just in shot.)

 

[Roo]

No info for this one. Jochen Rindt looks either unimpressed or mildly amused by the reward for a hard afternoon's work:

A pre-race message to Jacques Villeneuve Sr at the 1983 Can Am Road America round:

From Facebook

 

[Liquid]

1972 Michigan POR Rally

The Jeep won the event and led to the FIA banning 4WD for the next 10 years.

 

[Tornado]

Big "Just drive that Toronado up Pikes Peak" energy.

 

[-Fred-]

Michael's parting of the seas, circa 2002 AD.