Classic Motorsport Photos

[G_Parrilla]

Rally Argentina starts tomorrow! Some from 1985.

F1 driver Carlos Reutemann drove a T16 at the event.

 

[ApexDrift123]

Le Mans 1999 start .

 

[jontikis]

1985 Brands Hatch

Elio de Angelis (Lotus 97T) & Marc Surer (Brabham BT54)

1935 Grand Prix de Pau

Tazio Nuvolari driving an Alfa Romeo P3

1983 F1 tyre test at Brands Hatch

Michele Alboreto testing tyres with the Tyrrell "boomerang" 012.
The car with this wing design was seen only once during a grand prix weekend, in the hands of Alboreto during practice for the 1983 Austrian Grand Prix.

1969 24h of Le Mans - The start

As Jacky Ickx was opposed to the traditional Le Mans start which he considered to be dangerous, he slowly walked across the track to his machine, instead of running. He locked the safety belt carefully and thus was the last to start the race, chasing the field. On lap one, a tragic event proved that Ickx was right: private driver John Woolfe, who had not taken time to belt himself in, had a fatal accident in his new and powerful 917.

1969 German GP

Jim Clark driving his Lotus-Ford 49 at the Nurburgring.

 

[brocky31]

Tell me more about this Tyrrell please

 

[jontikis]

Tell me more about this Tyrrell please

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrrell_012

 

[Liquid]

Worth sharing:

Tamburello, 1994

 

[Pete05]

Worth sharing:

Tamburello, 1994

R I P

 

[-Fred-]

That yellow paint is haunting.

 

[Liquid]

That yellow paint is haunting.

Indeed.

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Here are three different things for you. Yes, one of them is from this century:

Hungaroring, 2003

A spectacular DNF for Rubens Barrichello.

France, 1982

Of all people, this is future Mercedes-Benz motorsport supremo Norbert Haug testing the Renault RE30.

Hockenheimring, 1988

Williams testing an ultra-low downforce rear wing on the FW12. Something they would also try at Monza in 1997.

 

[Legro]

Mechanics doing their job in the 1986 Rallye Monte Carlo.

 

[Liquid]

That's a great photo. 👍

 

[UnkaD]

Indeed.

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France, 1982

Of all people, this is future Mercedes-Benz motorsport supremo Norbert Haug testing the Renault RE30.

Hockenheimring, 1988

Williams testing an ultra-low downforce rear wing on the FW12. Something they would also try at Monza in 1997.

I love the old Renault livery, and the low downforce Williams in that image looks pretty damn sweet.

 

[brocky31]

Some F1 testings too:

Johnny Dumfries on the Ferrari 156/85 at Fiorano

Eddie Cheever in 1977

 

[knoxviue]

1937 Donington GP, Manfred von Brauchitsch, Mercedes-Benz W125.

1952 Isle of Man TT, Harvey Williams, 125cc BSA Bantam

1980 DOME RL80

 

[brocky31]

Rolf Stomellen (Hesketh 308D Ford) leading Boy Hayje (Penske PC3 Ford), Holland 1976

John Watson (Brabham BT45B Alfa Romeo), Belgium 1977

Tommy Byrne (Theodore TY02 Ford), Germany 1982

Elio De Angelis (Lotus 95T Renault), 1984

 

[Obelisk]

What's up with that wing on the 95T?

 

[Whodoyouthink]

Is it me, or is that vintage Isle Of Man TT photo showing the rider Harvey smoking a cig?

 

[catamount39]

Is it me, or is that vintage Isle Of Man TT photo showing the rider Harvey smoking a cig?

Not only is he smoking the competition, he's smoking!

 

[Pete05]

I'm not sure what's the bigger health hazard. Ciggies or threading your way around the TT course at speed?

 

[VXR]

Oh that's really tickled me.

Puts me in mind of my OG butchery colleagues, saying how you'd be working with a ciggy on the end of the block. Completely different age.

 

[brocky31]

Ricardo Paletti, Osella FA1C (Ford), 1982

Porsche 787, I don't know where and when

 

[Liquid]

That's definitely the Old Station Hairpin at Monaco. If it's a 787 it's probably 1961. Wikipedia tells us that that is Hans Hermann, who finished 9th in that race.

 

[marco89IT]

Some pictures from the 1973 F1 season


Zandvoort - James Hunt, Hesketh

Zeltweg - Lotus garage, Barbro Peterson and Helena Fittipaldi keeping times of their husbands. Behind them, Colin Chapman

Le Castellet - Ronnie Peterson

Zeltweg - George Follmer, Shadow

Zolder - Jean Pierre Jarier, March

 

[NISM0_SKYLINE]

 

[brocky31]

Masten Gregory adjusting his mirror moments before the start of the race
Lotus-BRM 24, 1962 Italian Grand Prix, Monza

 

[brocky31]

1990 is too recent ?

Bernd Schneider in his Zakspeed 881 in 1988

Paddy Driver jumping

 

[marco89IT]

34 years ago today. No one like him.

 

[Liquid]

If anything summed up Gilles, it's a GIF and not one picture:

 

[VXR]

Is that GIF the reverse angle of the photo above it? Shame I missed him in period, but when I see his driving I'm always amazed.

 

[brocky31]

Alan Rollinson, Surtees TS8, Oulton Park 1971

Luis Perez Sala (Minardi M188 Ford) leading Philippe Alliot (Lola LC88 Ford), Detroit 1988