Classic Motorsport Photos

[05XR8]

That's cool. Reminds me to find a pic I took of Frentzen getting out of his Porsche Cup car at the Melbourne GP, 2012.

Motoharu “GAN-san” Kurosawa trying to hang with the Capellas to no avail in a 1-2-3 finish for the Mazdas at Fuji 1972.

 

[Liquid]

1988 British Touring Car Championship

Defending champion Chris Hodgetts unsuccessfully tried to tackle Formula Sierra with a turbocharged A70 Toyota Supra. Hodgetts didn't even last the whole year with MIL Motorsport; Ian Flux and Mark Hales drove the #1 car at various rounds in the second half of the season, such as the shots from Brands Hatch, with Vic Lee in the #2.

 

[toastet]

Bobby Allison - 1981
NASCAR Winston West
Laguna Seca Raceway

 

[TheCracker]

1988 British Touring Car Championship

Defending champion Chris Hodgetts unsuccessfully tried to tackle Formula Sierra with a turbocharged A70 Toyota Supra. Hodgetts didn't even last the whole year with MIL Motorsport; Ian Flux and Mark Hales drove the #1 car at various rounds in the second half of the season, such as the shots from Brands Hatch, with Vic Lee in the #2.

Always thought the Group A Supra, and the Starion for that matter, were stretching the concept of what a touring car is really supposed to be. That and the BiTurbo added some much needed variety to the back of the field though i guess.

 

[05XR8]

Same reason why I thought 911s were odd to be named touring cars back in the day. I’ll take it though.

 

[daan]

That and the BiTurbo added some much needed variety to the back of the field though i guess.

And Mike O'Brien's Commodore. Class A but more commonly seen getting in the way of the Class B BMWs.

Brands Hatch BTCC 1988 - Holden Commodore VL by Dan Morgan, on Flickr

 

[toastet]

Stumbled across, probably also qualified for https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/thre...-funnies-fails-crashes-and-randomness.220386/

"Galles racing Engineer Trevor Harris observing suspension setup changes on Al Unser Jr's Eagle at Phoenix, 1983"

 

[Wiegert]

Rover 827 Vitesse by D Bell, on Flickr

1989 Harry Flatters Rally

Eppynt Wales

38th Overall

Don Kettleborough / Ronnie Gibson

 

[TheCracker]

That Rover reminds me of Tony Pond's 1990 Isle of Man TT first 100mph average lap record. In what was an almost standard Rover 827 Vitesse. There's a whole Duke Video of it, but seemingly very few photos.

To say that even 34 years later, the (200+bhp) racing Superbike lap record is 'only' 137mph, on a narrow circuit much better suited to bikes, 100mph in a 176bhp near-standard non-sportscar was really impressive.

Mark Higgins had to use a 600bhp Time Attack WRX STi to push that car lap record to 127mph in 2016.

 

[Liquid]

Baltimore-Washington Board Track Speedway (1925)

 

[Liquid]