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Ferrari Grand Prix Racing Drivers Video

Onboard with Fangio at Monaco

These weren’t little GoPros hanging off of the Maestro’s Lancia. Each of these cameras had to be loaded with film, started up, and run a few laps. Then they had to do it again and again so that you don’t see the giant camera in the other angles. It’s easy to dismiss the complexity of these earlier onboard films when we can easily toss a half-dozen or more digital video cameras on a car at every possible angle. It’s part of what makes early onboard footage so precious.

Looking through the slow motion montages in this clip, I have to believe it was part of the inspiration for Saul Bass’s racing sequences in Grand Prix.

via Retro Formula 1

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Ferrari Historic Racing Photos Porsche

ZANTAFIO56’s 1970 LeMans

Hans Herrmann and Richard Attwood’s Winning Porsche 917

I don’t know that the 1970 running of the LeMans 24 Hours race is particularly pivotal for the public at large, but that particular running is just so cemented in my mind. I’m sure the documentation of it in the form of McQueen’s LeMans is the key reason. Also significant for Hans Herrmann and Richard Attwood’s victory that gave Porsche their first outright win at the race: A feat they’d repeat 15 more times and started Porsche down their road to winningest team in the event’s history.

The Solar Productions 908 with Jonathan Williams and Herbert Linge at the wheels

These images from Flickr user ZANTAFIO56 only serve to further add to the importance and beauty of the race in my mind. He seems to have been all over the track, with some marvelous shots from several corners of La Sarthe and the pits as well. More of Zantafio56’s shots at his flickr set. Fantastic!

The winning drivers’ celebratory lap
Note the crashed ‘LeMans’ cars behind the Chevron

I just realized that this is my third 917-centric post in a week. I’ll take a break from her now. I promise.


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Ferrari Grand Prix Historic Racing Photos

Between a Barrel and a Soft Place

1955 New Zealand GP

I think one of the things I like most about historic motorsport is the makeshift facilities. New Zealand didn’t have a purpose-built racing course to host this GP in 1955, but did it stop them? No.

Prince Bira’s 250F Maserati (#1) was perfectly welcome to mix it up on the runways of Ardmore Airport with Lex Davison’s HWM-Jaguar (#77) and Tony Gaze’s Ferrari (#4) just the same. Sure, there’s good reason why 55-gallon drums and haybales don’t serve as today’s racing course construction but there’s a spirit of improvisation that I appreciate.

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Ferrari Grand Prix Historic Racing Photos

Imperfect

Raymond Sommer at the 1950 Pau GP

Blurry photo. Poorly reproduced. Beautiful.

No level of crystal clear photography and high resolution printing could improve upon this shot of Raymond Sommer drifting his Ferrari 125 at the 1950 Pau GP.

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Ferrari Video

Stirling’s No. 7

Let’s ride shotgun as the Ferrari specialists at DK Engineering that Sir Stirling Moss’ old Ferrari 250 GT SWB (#2119) for a quick trip to Goodwood; her ancestral home.

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Classic Sportscar Ferrari Historic Racing Photos

1957 Cuban GP in Color

Fangio’s Maserati at the 1957 Cuban GP
Fangio's at the 1957 Cuban GP
  • Alfonso de Portago’s Ferrari 857S
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Automotive Art Ferrari

Dean Walton’s “Iconic Racing” Poster Series

Paring iconic racing cars back to a simple illustration of their roofline silhouette and best known liveries makes for a wonderful poster execution by designer Dean Walton. Click on through to his store to browse the complete series.

Might be time to clear some wall space.

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Ferrari Grand Prix Video

Return of the Sharknose

I’m not one to quibble about replica vs. re-creation vs. continuation but I know that these kinds of builds get some people’s dander up. With no surviving example, I can’t imagine that there are many who would argue the merits of this project. After all, it’s about as legit a Ferrari 156 as we’re ever likely to see.

The car itself has been making quite a splash on the European vintage circuit but even if it is a few years old, the video is well worth a watch. I’d like to see more of these kinds of builds and hope that the skills to do so don’t become so scarce that it gets even more difficult to make them happen.

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Ferrari Grand Prix Historic Racing Photos

A School of Sharks

Ferrari 156s at the 1962 Italian Grand Prix

The world is a slightly dimmer place that there’s no authentic Sharknose on the planet. I will never fully understand, let alone appreciate, why Enzo had them destroyed after the season. At least we can stare longingly at this image of these gloriously breathtaking machines being unloaded from the transporter for Ferrari’s home race.
Prints available at the McKlein Store.

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Ferrari Grand Prix

Even the Pit Babes Were Better.

Chris Amon's Ferrari at the '68 British Grand Prix

Chris Amon’s Ferrari at the 1968 British Grand Prix. Amon wasn’t known for his luck, and his car would seem to have gotten luckier than Chris that day… But he did come in second at the race.

More images from this moment captured by Mike Hayward—though this particular photo is not his, if I understand correctly—and are available on his site.
Thanks, AutoMotivated.