F1 Legends: Throwback Tuesdays & Thursdays

Fantastic stuff Joe, thank you!

 

I was there and watched him win the race, although my seat at the Queens Hairpin was so low in the grandstand that about all I could see were the drivers' helmets and the roll bars!

I have a 1/18 Exoto model of this very car, and I could never understand the "21 West Coast Ferrari Dealers" sticker, since even today I don't think there are even 21 Ferrari dealers in the entire country! There certainly would not have been 21 on the west coast in 1979.

 

And to think that he won the race in that tank! Only Grand Prix that the BRM H-16 engine ever won.

 

Yeah, that right rear is just a little bit low.

Having visited both Silverstone and Brands Hatch (not on race weekends), I wish they could get F1 racing back at Brands; it's so much more picturesque than Silverstone. But with all the money they've put into the latter, it'll probably never happen.

 

A terrific period shot, things were done a bit differently in those days. The two fellows standing by the pole must have been deafened. Who is the man in the raincoat, any ideas?

 

He had to be, probably assisting starter Tex Hopkins.

 

Look how much things have changed - Williams and McLaren have gone from being the top two teams in 1987 to the bottom two teams in 2018! And third-place Lotus disappeared entirely.

 

And if anyone asks "Tex who?", just think of a lavender suit. No one ever waved a checkered flag like Tex!:
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The second photo above is of Clark winning the same race he's shown starting in 1966 in the earlier photo. Here he (and Tex) are a year later, where he won again, in a Lotus 49 with a slightly out-of-kilter right rear wheel!
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Hungarian GP 1988
Derek Warwick hitching a ride with Gerhard Berger.
Stuff you won`t see today.

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Amazing how huge those rear tires were.

 

Another view of the beautiful Ferrari 126C2 driven by Andretti at Monza in 1982. My second favorite Ferrari of all time.


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I always felt that it was a great tribute to Mario that he completed his F1 career at Ferrari--pole and a podium finish at Monza(next to the last race).

 

And to think that he also got pole in his first Grand Prix - Lotus 49 at Watkins Glen 1968.

 

Pironi giving Gilles a lift in a 126 ck....
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