Category Formula 1
Looking Back
As the cars line up before practice with photographers all around, John Surtees looks into Bob Daley’s camera from his Ferrari 158/F1. The scene is at practice before the Monaco Grand Prix which would be run on May 10, 1964. The Ferrari entry for Surtees was the first championship race appearance of the 1.5 liter […]
The Adoration of the Crowd
Here is Giuseppe “Nino” Farina with a huge winner’s wreath around his shoulders in the midst of a delighted crowd after the finish of the 1950 British Grand Prix on May 13, 1950. The race was held at Silverstone, using the former RAF airfield runways and access roads, and was the first race of the […]
How’s the Knee, Old Man?
Two years after his career-ending accident at Goodwood, Stirling Moss was well on his way to supporting himself with his as yet untapped talents. Here Moss is a television reporter for the May 10, 1964 running of the Monaco Grand Prix as he interviews his friend Innes Ireland before the first practice session. Ireland […]
In the Forest
This evocative photograph was taken in the early morning of July 7, 1957 as the Ferrari team lined up to fill their cars with fuel before French Grand Prix which would be on the Rouen-Les-Essarts public road circuit. The four team cars are the Ferrari 801F1, the result of two years’ development of the Lancia […]
Gold Leaf Team Lotus
Here is Lotus driver Jochen Rindt at the non-Championship International Gold Cup race which took place at Oulton Park on August 22, 1970. To provide more racing for the spectators, the Gold Cup was run in two 20 lap heats with the overall finishing order being determined on aggregate time. Grid positions for the first […]
The Ferrari Team
For the Italian Grand Prix at Monza on September 13, 1959 here are three of the five the Ferrari Team drivers: from the left, Tony Brooks, Phil Hill and Dan Gurney. Cliff Alison and Olivier Gendebien will drive two more Ferrari 246F1s. Enzo Ferrari had obviously loaded his gun for his home race. For the […]
Celebrating Victory
On several years the French Grand Prix was held at a mountainous circuit just outside of the city of Clermont-Ferrand, home of the Michelin tire company. This circuit was called the Circuit de Charade, but was also referred to by the name of its nearby city of Clermont-Ferrand and, in honor of one of the […]
In the Fields of Reims
Here is that famous team manager of Mercedes-Benz, Alfred Neubauer, on the grid at the public road circuit of Reims-Gueux before the French Grand Prix on July 3, 1938. Naubauer is standing next to the Mercedes W154 which will be driven by Hermann Lang to third place behind his teammates Manfred von Brauchitsch and Rudolf […]
The Lineup
In the early 1950s color motor racing photography was quite rare, primarily because motoring publishers of both books and magazines were unwilling to undertake the expense and difficulties then involved in printing color images. One well-known motor racing photographer of that time said, “Every photo I took in color was one I might have sold […]
A French Grand Prix
The first French Grand Prix was held on a series of public roads near Lyon in 1914 and was won by a Mercedes. In 1947 there were no Mercedes but the Grand Prix was held again at Lyon on September 21 although on a much shorter temporary street circuit. Here is the talented Swiss “gentleman […]
