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My very favourite birthday celebration. An instantaneous street party with announcers sprinkled throughout and even a lift from a friendly passerby. June 11, 1995.
Really neat to see these pictures of when F1 had a personality instead of the Spec racing snooze fest it's become.
Me too though no hat. It was the first race of the season and all of the drivers had to present their credentials to the FIA(Balestre) ensconced in a trailer(!). We stood outside the trailer as they all streamed by--Senna, Jean, a very young Mika Hakkinen. It was also the debut race of Jordan F1. A great era of F1.
Agree..F1 wasn't politically correct, managed to the hilt, drivers weren't unaccessable, and the cars were DIFFERENT. Qualifying engines, race engines, great sounds, neat stuff.
A couple of years ago, the Phoenix Art Museum had a display featuring some really significant cars. The Gurney Westlake F1 car was one of them.. It was so neat..I know times and technology changes but that stuff they race today just isn't appealing to me...just sayin
I still contend that the 1967 Eagle-Weslake is THE best looking F1 car of all time, absolutely and positively. Whoever came up with the beak nose was pure genius.
I'm late to the party but happy birthday Jean, you gave me so much as a Ferrari fan, i just wish you all the best!
Born 110 years ago today, the one and only Maestro, Juan Manuel Fangio. A true legend. Cahier photo. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Look how close together starting grids were in 1967! Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Well, the first photo shows the "dummy" grid, where the cars were serviced after their reconnaissance lap. They would then move forward to the "real" grid, where the cars would be a little further apart. But as the photo on the right shows, not by much! Notice the amount of wheelspin in the photo on the right. Before downforce was discovered, F1 cars accelerated much more slowly off the line than they do now, which allowed the closer quarters. These appear to be a the Nurburgring and Le Mans, respectively. Notice that in both cases there is a Brabham on the front row. Black Jack's cars weren't as "underpowered" as thought, were they? That, plus utter reliability (in an era when not many more than 50% of the starters would finish) led to two world championships.
Nice to see my co-favourite F1 driver on the front row in both photos with his Eagle In many ways the grid looks much safer than what we have now, better sight lines, zero tire slicing appendages on the cars and, as you mentioned, no immediate grip off the line. Fantastic photos.
