Tag Archives: Aston Martin
At the Mille Miglia
This photograph was taken in the courtyard of Casa Maggi, the ancestral home of Count Aymo Maggi, one of the four original founders of the Mille Miglia along with Giovanni Canestrini, Renzo Castagneto and Franco Mazzotti. Casa Maggi was located near the village of Calino which is about 10 km west of Brescia. It was often […]
Three Ferraris at Le Mans
Here we are above the pits at Le Mans before then start of the 24 Hours on July 28, 1956. Because of the tragic accident in 1955, the Automobile Club de l’Ouest had decreed that for 1956 the engine displacement of cars running as prototypes would be lowered t0 2.5 liters. Production cars were not […]
The Magic of Moss
Here is Stirling Moss in a works Aston Martin DBR1/300 during the Nürburgring 1000 Km. sports car race on June 7, 1959. Aston had won this race the prior two years and gave Moss the exactly same car he had used to win in 1958. This photograph was probably taken in the right hand uphill […]
A Shorter Mille Miglia.
At this moment we are with Reg Parnell and Louis Klemantaski on top of the starting ramp on Viale Venezia opposite the Parco Rebuffone in Brescia just before 5:35 A.M. on May 2, 1954.. Greeting Parnell and Klemantaski as they pull into their starting position is Renzo Castagneto, one of the four founders of the […]
The Racer’s Racer
With the death of Stirling Moss, we present here photos from his most famous races. Of course Stirling Moss had perhaps his most famous victory in the 1955 Mille Miglia, driving a Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR with his great friend Denis Jenkinson as his navigator. This photo was taken at the top of the Futa Pass […]
The Final Victory
The Aston Martin folks always have referred this way to the win by Aston Martin at Le Mans on June 21, 1959, after years of trying. For 1959 Aston Martin had made a huge effort to achieve reliability for Le Mans, especially with respect to their transmissions which had always been rather problematic. Here is […]
A Le Mans Start
This fabulous photograph, was taken just in front of the Motor bridge at Silverstone at the entrance to Copse Corner on September 14, 1957. Here we see the Le Mans type start which was used for the over 1.5 liter Sports Car Race which took place before the non-championship F1 race at the International Trophy […]
A Pause that Refreshes!
For many years both before and after World War II just a few weeks after the 24 Hours of Le Mans another 24 hour endurance race was held in Belgium on the long and fast Spa-Francorchamps public road circuit. However, even postwar the racing was still run in a relaxed prewar style, much less professional than it […]
Klemantaski at Mulsanne
Before darkness came to Le Mans, Louis Klemantaski often went out to the slow Mulsanne Corner at the end of the straight and climbed up on the earth bank at the apex to capture the leading cars as they swept round. Here early Saturday evening on June 22, 1957 is Les Leston, best known for his race clothing business in London, […]
On the Limit
In 1959 Dan Gurney joined the Scuderia Ferrari team for both F1 and sports cars races. In that year the classic British RAC Tourist Trophy race was held at Goodwood as a 6-hour affair and was part of the Manufacturers Championship for Sports Cars. It would be the deciding race to determine whether the Championship would […]
Klemantaski Collection 