Classic Motorsport Photos

[Pete05]

Ron Flockhart spins - sorry, drifts - an Ecurie Ecosse Jaguar D-Type:

Frolander/Lundstrom, Austin Healey 100-6, Swedish ‘Rally to The Midnight Sun' in 1956:

Looking at the angle of Ron's head & the front wheels of the Jag, it may have started as a drift but at this point, it's going, going, gone!

 

[Liquid]

1985 Italian Grand Prix

Driver: Alain Prost FRA
Car: McLaren MP4/2 (1.5L turbocharged Porsche V6)
Finished: 1st

 

[toastet]

Aguri Suzuki in the middle of his 2007 race car fleet of Team ARTA (Autobacs Racing Team Aguri, founded in 1997) + the Super Aguri F1 car after the 2007 season in Suzuka. The NSX GT500 in the middle won that years Super GT championship in the GT500 class. Car was driven by ex-F1 drivers Ralph Firman and Yuji Ide + Daisuke Ito. Team ARTA is the biggest japanese motorsports team until today supporting drivers in many categories.

 

[Roo]

During construction of Daytona International Speedway in December 1958:

Grading the banking, with cables attaching the grading vehicle to the plant at the top:

 

[Roo]

"The Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Team on the move during the 1964 Tasman Cup, which Bruce won. Bonners Garage is in Levin, the first round of the series run over the January 4 weekend."

Graeme McRae, Tasman Series, Warwick Farm pits in 1973:

 

[Pete05]

"The Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Team on the move during the 1964 Tasman Cup, which Bruce won. Bonners Garage is in Levin, the first round of the series run over the January 4 weekend."

Graeme McRae, Tasman Series, Warwick Farm pits in 1973:

The pits is right.

I've seen photos of behind the old pit lane at Sandown when it was between turns 1 & 2.

This is on par

Coincidence that both tracks were/are located inside a horse racing facility?

 

[Liquid]

1986 Mexican Grand Prix

Driver: Gerhard Berger AUT
Car: Benetton B186 (1.5L turbocharged BMW I4)
Finished: 1st

 

[toastet]

1000 Km Nürburgring 1971, Döttinger Höhe, Porsche 908 Joe Siffert in front, 908 behind, Alfa Romeo T33, 908, T33, Porsche 917, Ferrari 512

 

[TumeK5]

 

[Roo]

McLaren aerodynamic testing in the late 1960s.

"Photo taken in the car park of The Golden Cross, McLaren’s local pub just off Junction 14 of the M25 London orbital motorway. The Mini was run up and down Moor Lane, a long, very straight, flat two lane road alongside the Wraysbury Reservoir which which is now mostly buried under the M25 between the Staines and Heathrow T4/T5 exits."

 

[Liquid]

Patrick Tambay, 1949-2022

1977 24 Hours of Le Mans

Car: Alpine A442 (2.0L turbocharged Renault V6)
Finished: DNF (engine)

1982 German Grand Prix

Car: Ferrari 126C2 (1.5L turbocharged I4)
Finished: 1st

Testing, 1983

Location: Circuit Paul Ricard
Car: Renault RE50 (1.5L turbocharged I4)

1988 Dakar Rally

Car: Range Rover
Finished: 3rd, two special stage victories

 

[Obelisk]

McLaren aerodynamic testing in the late 1960s.

"Photo taken in the car park of The Golden Cross, McLaren’s local pub just off Junction 14 of the M25 London orbital motorway. The Mini was run up and down Moor Lane, a long, very straight, flat two lane road alongside the Wraysbury Reservoir which which is now mostly buried under the M25 between the Staines and Heathrow T4/T5 exits."

No doubt trying to copy the Chaparral 2E from the same era. Wing design and shape is very similar and it looks to have some type of rotating mechanism.

 

[Pupik]

I had no idea Patrick Tambay had Parkinson's Disease. RIP

His first stints in F1 were mixed, and then left out to dry in 1980. Getting back into F1 from Theodore, then Ligier, and suddenly a backup Ferrari driver. That win in Germany picked up their spirits after losing Villeneuve and Pironi is one of those rare feel-good stories that you don't see much of in Grand Prix racing, and it must have been a massive bit of redemption for Patrick.

 

[TheCracker]

No doubt trying to copy the Chaparral 2E from the same era. Wing design and shape is very similar and it looks to have some type of rotating mechanism.

Looks like it was a test of the mechanism rather than a test of the aero - some sort of manually activated DRS system i guess. I can't see any sensor equipment and the wink uprights are attached to the rear door hinges... I don't think a Mini van is going to reach speeds where any useful aero data could be gathered

 

[Roo]

Thom Jamison driving a Chevrolet Corvette at Pikes Peak, Colorado, July 4, 1962:

Edity edity edit:

Rally of the 1000 Lakes 1979, eventual winners Markku Alén and Ilkka Kivimäki take flight in their Fiat 131 Abarth:

 

[Roo]

The only information I have is that it's the turn 3 chicane at Rouen-les-Essarts. I can't imagine it ended well:

 

[Liquid]

 

[Pupik]

The only information I have is that it's the turn 3 chicane at Rouen-les-Essarts. I can't imagine it ended well:

Someone's going test the limits of their suspension, someone else is going to test the patience of the team owner, and someone's going the test the limits of censorship.

I just like the thrill of not knowing what happened, because it it could've been so many things.

 

[Liquid]

1970 French Grand Prix - Clermont-Ferrand

 

[Roo]

Maurice Trintignant in his Cooper-Maserati T51 en route to the USGP at Riverside in 1960:

 

[Liquid]

1995 British Touring Car Championship

Oulton Park

Lead Driver: John Cleland SCO

Knockhill

Driver: Gabriele Tarquini ITA

Brands Hatch

Drivers: #9 Tim Harvey ENG, #24 Mike Briggs RSA

Driver: John Cleland SCO

Drivers: #2 Alain Menu SUI, #14 James Thompson ENG

 

[Pete05]

That pic of John Cleland.

Lights ablaze & totally off the deck at Dingle Dell, Brands Hatch 1995.

Dingle Dell had so much character before the smoothed it out.

 

[RACECAR]

The only information I have is that it's the turn 3 chicane at Rouen-les-Essarts. I can't imagine it ended well:

This has strong "To be continued" vibes.

 

[Liquid]

Slim Borgudd, 1946-2023

 

[Roo]

I think this is the Redman/Haywood Jaguar XJR-5 at the 1985 Lime Rock 2 Hours:

 

[Roo]

"Earl Uhr walking away from his Saab 93 GT 750, Sebring 4 hour 1961"

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[Roo]

"Riki Okubo leading the field T-I race @ Suzuka, 1964. Riki won averaging lap times of 3 minutes 44 seconds."

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[Pete05]

"Riki Okubo leading the field T-I race @ Suzuka, 1964. Riki won averaging lap times of 3 minutes 44 seconds."

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With the original layout of Suzuka being much faster, thanks to a faster entry to both turn 1 and the Spoon curve, as well as the Degner curves being one long radius turn, and no chicane before the final turn, that 3m44s lap time must have been like 3m40s of flat-out motoring chess & mad slipstreaming.

The pic posted is clearly the hairpin where I'm betting most of the desperate manoeuvres were performed, but also keeping one's momentum was also key to one's laptime.

 

[toastet]

With the original layout of Suzuka being much faster, thanks to a faster entry to both turn 1 and the Spoon curve, as well as the Degner curves being one long radius turn, and no chicane before the final turn, that 3m44s lap time must have been like 3m40s of flat-out motoring chess & mad slipstreaming.

The pic posted is clearly the hairpin where I'm betting most of the desperate manoeuvres were performed, but also keeping one's momentum was also key to one's laptime.

From opening 1962-1982:

 

[Liquid]

From opening 1962-1992:

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1982.