OMG! Dan Gurney, Ferrari, Monsanto 1959…

Posted: March 20, 2024 in F1, Fotos
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The days of sublime, simply beautiful Grand Prix photographs are long gone, sadly. I friggin’ hate modern abbreviations like OMG but it does make a point, very economically.

Dan the Man is blasting his Ferrari Dino 246 around the Circuito de Monsanto, a port city in Lisbon, Portugal, during the August 23, 1959 Portuguese Grand Prix. He was third behind the Cooper T51 Climaxes raced by Stirling Moss and Masten Gregory.

(LAT)

Back then, photographs weren’t usually attributed to the artist, so sadly we cannot give the talented ‘snapper the accolade he/she/uncertain deserves: try this https://primotipo.com/2017/07/14/composition/

Of course, rather than completely wallowing in the past, the challenge is to find some modern settings which match the OMG-WOW Factor of photographs like these. This is the first in what will be an ongoing series…

Credits…

LAT Photographic

Finito…

Comments
  1. John Steele says:

    Beautiful…an immeasurable loss. Everything solid turned into air.

  2. Claudio Navonne says:

    Nice!!

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