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(Allan Fearnley)
Piero Taruffi’s Ferrari 315S leads the Richard Steed/John Hall Cooper Jaguar and ill-fated Ferrari 335S of Fon de Portago and Ed Nelson. Taruffi victorious in the 335S Ferrari powered 315…
Click here for my article about this race;
Credit…
Allan Fearnley
Finito…
(Slim Aarons)
Gordon Butler’s Chev Corvette and his crew at the Oakes Course, Nassau, The Bahamas, 1963…
Car is clearly all ‘ready to rock’, they look fairly relaxed about things!
Credit…
Slim Aarons
(Slim Aarons)
‘The Track Is My Canvas’ could be the title? The Pedro Lamy/Stephhane Sarrazin Aston Martin DBR9 during practice for the Petit Le Mans round at Road Atlanta, Georgia on 26 September 2006…
Credit…
Darrell Ingham
‘Pascal’ dreams of Grand Prix success, shot on 1 February 1956 in front of the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel in the Place du Carrousel, Paris…
It gave me a chuckle! I wonder who has that little car now?
Credit…
Jerry Cooke
(News Ltd)
Jack Brabham’s ‘go-kart’ wins the ‘Lakeside 99’ Tasman Round in February 1964…
The photographer has created a ‘turn of the century’ distorted effect, the Brabham BT7A Climax looks quite weird , the off-beat nature of the shot enhanced by the cars lack of bodywork to try and deal with the harsh, summer Queensland heat.
Brabham won the race from John Youl’s Cooper T55 Climax, Jacks ’61 F1 and ’62 Australian Internationals chassis and Bruce Mclaren’s Cooper T70 Climax.
Brabham exits the Lakeside pitlane onto the hot, steamy circuit (Peter Mellor/The Roaring Season)
By the looks of these Peter Mellor shots the lead up to the race was wet, the tropical humidity would have made the race a real endurance test.
Bruce McLaren won the first Tasman Series, with both he and Jack taking 3 wins, appropriately Bruce’s in NZ and Jack’s in Oz!
Brabham portrait Lakeside 1964 (Peter Mellor/The Roaring Season)
Brabham BT7A Climax 2.5 FPF (Peter Mellor Collection)
Photo Credits…
News Ltd, Peter Mellor Collection/The Roaring Season
A famous win for Moss, Rob Walker and the Lotus 18 Climax…
1961 was the first year of the 1.5 litre F1; Ferrari were dominant with their powerful 156’s, the little V6 was the most potent engine, the chassis not a patch on the best of the Brits but overall the Scuderia had a great year.
However, the mastery of Moss prevailed several times during 1961. The first of these performances in his lithe, nimble 1.5 Coventry Climax Mk2 engined Lotus 18 is portrayed in the season opening event by John Ketchell’s art.
The great cockpit view shows Moss chasing Jack Brabham’s Cooper T55 Climax and Richie Ginther’s Ferrari 156.
Grid shot: #20Moss Lotus 18 Climax, #36 Ginther’s Ferrari 156 and #28 Clark Lotus 20 Climax front row. Gurney’s Porsche 718 and Phil Hill’s Ferrari 156 on row 2 (unattributed)
Hill’s Ferrari, Clark outside #28 , Moss inside with the missing bodywork, #16 Tony Brooks BRM P48/57 Climax#36 Ginther and the silver nose of Gurney’s Porsche 718 (GP Library)
Credit…
John Ketchell, GP Library
Tailpiece: Maestro Moss…
Moss Mastery; totally relaxed as he gets every bit of performance out of the chassis of his year old Rob Walker owned Lotus 18; works drivers Clark and Ireland are in the new Lotus 20. Side bodywork removed to provide cooling air on the hot May day. Moss won Lotus’ first championship GP win with this victory (Geoff Goddard)
(Daniel Kalisz)
Shane van Gisbergen’s winning McLaren 650S GT3 dives into The Esses during its victorious run on 6/7 February 2016…
The McLaren won the Bathurst 12 Hour endurance race held at the classic Mount Panorama circuit last weekend from the Chiyo/Kelly/Strauss Nissan GT-R GT3 and Bell/Karel/Smith Bentley Continental GT3. The McLaren won the race by 1.2 seconds, the Nissan the 2015 defending champion.
Florian Strauss in the 2nd placed Nissan GT-R ahead of the 3rd placed Bentley Continental GT3, Griffins Bend. The bucolic beauty of Bathurst and elevation of Mount Panorama clear in this shot looking down Mountain Straight (Daniel Kalisz)
The event was first held in 1991 and has evolved from a competition between ‘Series Production’ cars to an international race comprising GT3 (Class A) GT3 Porsche Cup Cars (Class B) GT4 (Class C) and Invitational. This year the race was the first round of the ‘Intercontinental GT Challenge’ which includes the Sepang 12 Hours and Spa 24 Hours and is sanctioned/organised by the Stephane Patel Organisation.
37000 punters drove to Bathurst, a magnificent 1850’s ‘Gold Rush’ era town in NSW’s Central Tablelands 200 Km from Sydney (the October V8 Supercar Classic achieves 200000 folks over 4 days) to see an interesting variety of cars race from Saturday evening to Sunday morning.
Top left Klark Quinn McLaren 650S, top right and bottom Shane van Gisbergen McLaren 650S (Daniel Kalisz)
The field included a strong entry of V8 Supercar drivers and Internationals including Marcus Winkelhock, Guy Smith and ex-F1 drivers Mika Salo, Bernd Schneider and Andrea Montermini.
The lead of the race changed over 30 times, the winning McLaren prevailed despite 13 pitstops and a drive-thru penalty. The variety of the field is reinforced by the 4th placed Audi R8 LMS and 5th placed Mercedes SLS AMG GT3; five marques in the first five places.
Time to go and see this race!
1,2 seconds separated the winning McLaren 650S from 2nd placed Nissan GT-R at the race’ conclusion (Daniel Kalisz)
2016 Bathurst 12 Hour podium ceremony with drivers of the first 3 cars as per the text; Gisbergen, Webb and Parente the winning crew (Daniel Kalisz)
Photo Credit…
Daniel Kalisz, Getty Images
Tailpiece…
Guy Smith in the 3rd placed Bentley Continental GT3 (Daniel Kalisz)
Ian Ashley’s Williams FW03 Ford sits forlornly beside the Pflanzgarten Armco while Niki Lauda turns in, Ferrari 312T, Nurburgring, German GP practice 1 August 1975…
Ashley had his car, teammate Jacques Laffitte was quick in the evolved FW04 that year, in 20th grid position, when he had one of several huge career shunts, not of his own making. Ian takes up the story;
‘I had several things go wrong in practice, including a stuck throttle, which turned out to be a broken engine mount. There are four plates which used to hold the Cosworth onto the monocoque, and the top left plate had snapped. They didn’t check any of the others, and on the final qualifying run, and I was up to 9th or 12th by then – I hadn’t actually done a flying lap, only what they call a rolling lap, and my fastest lap was on my warming-up lap – I was ten seconds up on my flying lap when one of the bottom engine mounts snapped, and it just turned sharp left along the straight, and I went straight into the armco at 160mph. Nobody realised straight away what had happened, and I had chipped an ankle, so I missed one race of the F5000 series, but I managed to hang on to my lead’ (of the European F5000 Championship in which he ultimately finished 4th in Lola’s T330 and T400)
Marshals gather the remains of Ian Ashley’s ‘lightened and modified’ Williams FW03 Ford, Nurburgring 1975. The dangers of frontal impacts in aluminium monocoques of the period 1962 to circa 1982 readily apparent and certainly greatly superior to the chassis of earlier times! He was lucky the result was not a good deal worse, the car, originally designed by John Clarke in 1973 stood up to the big impact pretty well. The dude holding the helmet, to state the obvious, is the pilot of the medical chase car not Ashley…(unattributed)
For an interesting interview/summary of Ian Ashley’s career, and the trials and tribulations of trying to get into F1 with underprepared cars and/or ‘shitboxes’, click on this link;
http://8w.forix.com/ashley.html
In the GP Lauda was 3rd, Carlos Reutemannhttp won in a Brabham BT44B Ford and Laffitte was a career-enhancing 2nd and off to the new Ligier Matra outfit at seasons end.
Ian Ashley in Frank William’s FW03 before the engine mount failure, German GP practice 1975 (unattributed)
Credit…
Rainer Schlegelmilch, 8w.forix.com, motorsport.com
Carlos Reutemann on his way to German GP, Nurburgring victory in August 1975. Brabham BT44B Ford (unattributed)
Tailpiece: Ian Ashley in recent times in an historic Elden Mk8 FF…
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