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Louise Collins susses husband Peter’s fabulous Ferrari 335S in advance of the start of the ’57 Mille Miglia…
It was a victorious race for Ferrari but otherwise disastrous on every level given ‘Fon de Portago’s accident and it’s consequences, click here for an article about both this race and the big Ferrari;
Credit…
Mondadori Portfolio
Tailpiece…
That Brian Redman had replaced Peter Revson for the Monaco ’72 weekend didn’t seem to make much difference to the presence of the fairer sex in the McLaren Team’s pit…
Revvie was contesting the Indy 500, Redman did a great job in the unfamiliar M19A Ford qualifying it 10th and finishing 5th, Jean-Pierre Beltoise took the win in his BRM in streaming wet conditions.
Revson’s Indy started well, he qualified 2nd but only lasted 23 laps before gearbox failure, Mark Donohue won in Roger Penske’s McLaren M16B Offy, so not an altogether bad weekend for McLaren.
Redman during dry practice on Saturday. McLaren M19A Ford, rising rate suspension front linkages clear (Brian Watson)
Credits…
Rainer Schlegelmilch, Brian Watson
Tailpiece: ‘I could get used to this F1 caper?!’ In fact its not what BR wanted at all…
(J Wilds/Getty Images)
Venetia Day adorns the Matra MS120 at London’s Racing Car Show at Olympia on January 6 1971…
She is quite the most beautiful young lady with all of the ‘bibs n bobs’ we fellas tend to like. With the compound curvature of a Maserati 250F she is hard to beat.
I get a lot of metrics as part of this WordPress website, it always amuses me that the seventh most popular article i have done is the MS120 Matra piece i wrote a while back featuring Venetia’s ‘rear suspension’. Here to complete the set is her ‘front suspension’ which is as firmly set and finely proportioned as the rear…
Its certainly not the best piece i have written, so i guess it has something else going for it, page one or two of a Matra MS120 Google search !
All very politically incorrect these days of course, but political correctness is so ‘ferkin boring!
Here’s the original article if you’ve not read it;
Tailpiece…
(J Wilds)
British privateer, Horace Gould’s ‘crew’ time his Maserati 250F, he finished eighth in the race won by Moss’ similar car…i love this unattributed shot, it somehow captures the waiting game of a drivers lover in those very dangerous days…
Gould was a Bristol motor trader who competed in sixteen Grands’ Prix, his best result in this car , an ex-works 1954 250F ‘2514’, in the 1956 British Grand Prix, finishing fifth and earning two championship points.
He raced Jack Brabhams’ similar Cooper Bristol on an ‘Australasian Tour’, at Mount Druitt, New South Wales, in 1953 beaten by Jack, and in the 1954 New Zealand Grand Prix, the race won by Stan Jones’ Maybach 2.
Horace Gould in his Cooper T23 Bristol at Mt Druitt, he ‘was left for dead off the line, Jacks car with its lightweight flywheel, Harley clutch and Stromberg carbs’. (aussieroadracing.homestead.com)
Gould was the quintessential passionate privateer, eking out an existence on start and finish money in events throughout Europe in the late 1950’s, he stopped racing around 1959 and died of a heart attack in 1968, aged 47.
de Filippis in the cockpit of her Maserati 250F. Monza, Italian Grand Prix 1958…
de Filippis started racing Fiat 500s aged 22 after her brothers bet her she couldn’t drive fast. In 1954 she finished second in the Italian sports car championship and was scooped up by Maserati as a works driver.
In 1958, driving Maserati 250F chassis #2523 a ‘T car’ used by Fangio in 1957, she became the first woman to take part in a World Championship Grands’ Prix at Spa, Belgium finishing 10th. She missed the French Grand Prix when an official with Gallic charm and chauvinism suggested to her that ‘The only helmet a woman should wear is the one at the hairdresser’s.’
Jean Behra offered her a drive in his Porsche team in 1959. Behra’s death led to her reconsidering her future and she quit. ‘Too many friends had died,’ she told the Observer in 2006. ‘There was a succession of deaths – Luigi Musso, Peter Collins, Alfonso de Portago, Mike Hawthorn. Then Behra was killed in Berlin. That, for me, was the most tragic because it was in a race that I should have been taking part in. I didn’t go to the circuits any more. The following year I got married, then my daughter was born and family life became more important.’
Her GP results are; 1958 Syracuse Q8, DNF Belgium Q19 DNF, Italian Q21 DNF all 250F. 1959 Monaco Porsche 718 DNQ and BRDC Intl Trophy Silverstone 250F Q23 DNF.
de Filippis, Maser 250F, Spa 1958 (The Cahier Archive)
Credits…
The Cahier Archive, silhouet.com
(Dave Friedman)
Matra’s first Le Mans was with the 2 litre BRM V8 engined M620 in 1966…
A French Marque today in support of France and the French way of life, the senseless, barbaric attacks in Paris are an assault on us all. Our thoughts are with you. Mark Bisset.
It was the start of the company’s inexorable rise to the top of endurance racing, the French aerospace manufacturer won Le Mans from 1972 to 1974 with superb machines powered by the company’s own 3 litre V12.
The factory entered 2 cars in 1966, car #41 was driven by Jean Pierre Beltoise and Johnny Servoz-Gavin, it retired with gearbox failure after completing 112 laps.
Beltoise/Servoz-Gavin Matra M620 BRM, Le Mans 1966. (Dave Friedman)
Click here for an interesting article about the firms MS120 Grand Prix car;
Beltoise/Servoz-Gavin Matra M620 BRM, Le Mans 1966. (Dave Friedman)
Photo Credit…Dave Friedman
Many things spring to mind. I imagine their is a fine line between pleasure and pain in riding leathers a size or so too small. The helmet is a nod to rider safety tho its absence would have made the shot, but lets not get picky and be thankful for the creativity involved. Ideas on the make and model anyone?…
It gives a whole new meaning to concepts of an ‘early morning run’, i suspect on that particular day their were plenty of riders keen to follow than lead. No doubt ‘Fat Bob’ on the Harley struggled to keep up but no doubt he gave it a really good shake.
Diana Dors displays her undoubted goodies and hangs on bloody tight during the classic car parade lap before the 1967 Sebring 12 Hours…
The actress’ movie career needed a publicity boost, this ride on ‘the bonnet’ of a Ford GT40 Mk2B deemed a good idea at the time, one wonders at the risks involved. The gorgeous 38/24/36 bombshell would have made a hell of a mess of a nice car had she parted company with it…
Photo…Tom Bigelow
Jarno Trulli doing his best to focus on matters at hand during the Austrian Grand Prix weekend of 2001…
He qualified his Jordan EJ11 Honda very well in 5th, but a lapse of judgement on Sunday, he passed a red light whilst leaving the pitlane resulted in his disqualification, seems understandable in all the circumstances.
I struggle a bit with ‘the age of adornment’ one of my sons has a ‘sleeve’ which is suboptimal as a parent but i must confess to finding little to complain about in the discretely placed butterfly in this particular case!
Eddie Jordan really added a lot of ‘fizz’ to F1 in so many ways did he not!?
The 3rd placed ‘Kent International’ Ford Capri RS2600 of Klaus Fritzinger and Jean-Claude Franck awaits the start of European Touring Car Championship, Nurburgring round. A very seventies scene…
Perhaps one of you can identify the ‘snapper’ and driver? The race was won by the BMW 2800CS of John Fitzpatrick, Hans Heyer and Rolf Stommelen with Jochen Mass and Gerard Larrousse the best placed RS2600 in 2nd.
I wrote this article on Fords’ Cologne Capris’ a while back, click here to read about the history of these cars; https://primotipo.com/2015/04/09/australias-cologne-capris/
Photo Credit…unattributed
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