XLV Grand Prix de l'A.C.F Rheims, July 5, 1959 Photo credit: B. Cahier Caption: Largely due to organizer Roche's habitually incompetent flagging, Behra killed his engine at the start, but made up time at such a rate that he was third after 24 laps. Unfortunately, Jeannot pushed too hard and broke a piston. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Photo credit: A. Guichard Caption: Making no mistake this time, Roche gives the big checker to Tony Brooks, winner for Ferrari at 127.43 m.p.h. Trintignant's defunct Cooper waits. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Photo credit: A. Guichard Caption: "All that will have to come out," observes dentist Brooks to a dehydrated Phil Hill whose countenance bears the strain of the boiling hot day and marks of flying stones. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Photo credit: Y. Debraine Caption: Muizon corner on the road to Soissons: Brooks' Ferrari leads the first lap parade followed by Brabham, P. Hill and Moss. Far back is the luckless Behra. Image Unavailable, Please Login
XXI Grosser Preis von Deutschland Avus-Berlin, August 2, 1959 Photo credit: Photo Associated Press and B. Cahier Caption: To race on a stretch of autobahn, one must turn around at both ends. Here is seen the rather shallow and slippery brick banking on the first lap. I can only just make out Brooks (4) in first, the rest are too far away to make out race numbers. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Photo credit: J. Weitmann Caption: In their ultimate finishing order, the Ferraris of Brooks, Gurney and Phil Hill round the bottom end with a hopeful McLaren in tow. He tried to take up where Gregory left off but the sustained high speeds down the straights slipstreaming the Ferraris proved too much for his and three other Coopers. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Photo credit: B. Cahier Caption: Chorus and Finale from the last act of "Il Dentista Volante". Allora, da capo, fellas: "Italia, Italia..." Image Unavailable, Please Login
Thanks, much more yet to come! Here's an image I accidentally skipped at the start of the thread. Caption: Farina builds the speedy looking coupe body for the Ferrari 410 Superamerica. With its 400 b.h.p. V-12 engine, this is the most powerful production car in the world and as only one a month is made, it is one of the most exclusive. The car is 54 1/4 in. high and weighs about 2,900 lb. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Back to Grand Prix. VIII Grande Premio Automovel de Portugal Monsanto, August 23, 1959 Photo credit: Y. Debraine Caption: Ferrari Freshman Dan Gurney proved to be the fastest of his team and save Enzo's bacon by finishing third. Perhaps the sagebrush, dry hills, and almost tropical climate reminded him of back home in California. Image Unavailable, Please Login
XXX Gran Premio d'Italia Monza, September 13, 1959 Photo credit: Y. Debraine Caption: In the final European race counting for the World Championship, it is remarkable that the three leading contenders are in the front line out of 20 starters. Front row: Moss #14.............Brooks #30.........Brabham #12 Cooper Climax.......Ferrari..............Cooper Climax .........Gurney #36............... Hill #32 .........Ferrari ......................Ferrari Gendebien #38...... Schell #2 ..........Allison #34 Ferrari .................BRM .................Ferrari Image Unavailable, Please Login
Photo credit: A. Guichard Caption: The bosky, if somewhat noisy, dells of Lesmo are always a welcome relief from the burning sun, especially to Messrs. Hill, Moss, Gurney, and Brabham during the opening laps. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Photo credit: H. Manney Caption: Sensation! Moss holds an astonished Hill down the straight with Gurney and Brabham close behind, showing that the little Coopers are as quick hairy flatters as on twisty circuits. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Florida International 12-Hour Grand Prix of Endurance Sebring, March 21, 1959 Photo credit: D. Rubin Caption: In a great cloud of cement dust from the old bomber runway, Gurney rips past a hapless Salvadori to lead the race. The Aston was later to fall out with electrical troubles and a broken gearshift lever, but No. 7 Ferrari, in the hands of drivers Gurney, Daigh, Hill and Gendebien, was destined to carry the day. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Photo credit: B. Cahier Caption: Gendebien, in the Ferrari that he and Hill took over does not look as if he is enjoying Florida's liquid sunshine as time comes for a dusk refuelling. Team manager Tavoni, in the white cap, has apparently just got some water down his neck. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Photo credit: Ballard Caption: Jean Behra (Ferrari) seen in the earlier and sunnier opening hours of the race. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Photo credit: Ballard Caption: After twelve hours of racing, the Gendebien-Hill Ferrari takes the checkered flag for the second year in succession, Maranello's third win in four years. Image Unavailable, Please Login
V Internationales ADAC-1000-km-Rennen Nurburgring, June 7, 1959 Photo credit: A. Guichard and Y. Debraine Caption: Soon after Moss' co-driver Fairman took over with a comfortable lead it began to rain. Just after Wipperman, the Aston spun off the slippery track into the ditch (1), from which hazard the hapless Fairman managed to extract is but two Ferraris had already gotten by. Moss took over again at the pits and set out to catch the Italian cars; even exciting the Germans (2), he masters Gendebien at Brunnchen, passing the leader, Behra, during refeuling. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Photo credit: Y. Debraine Caption: Twenty-four cylinders all in a row. First year man Gurney concentrates on staying ahead of the Belgian GT class winner at Brunnchen, a downhill righthander with a humpback bridge. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Photo credit: H. Manney Caption: The illuminated sign shows the score... lap 38, No. 4 in the lead, as Hill enters the pit area as hard as he can go but the menacing Aston is close behind. By the time they had negotiated the pit straight, Southcurve, and dived into the Northcurve behind, Moss was alongside and soon passed him near Flugplatz. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Les Vingt-quatre Heures du Mans June 20 and 21, 1959 Photo credit: Y. Debraine Caption: Fifty-three starters get under way. Twenty-four hours later the patient crowd will see thirteen finishers only. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Photo credit: J. Weitmann and A. Guichard Caption: Despite his poor start, Jean Behra (Ferrari) climbed up through the heavy traffic. Here (1) he leapfrogs Ramos and Martin's Ferraris plus Masson's DB to take second place. Soon afterwards, he caught Moss in the Esses (2), passing the green Aston Martin on the Mulsanne straight to the wild delight of the partisan crowd to gain first position overall. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Photo credit: Y. Debraine Caption: As dusk falls Salvadori takes the outside at Tetre Rouge, spurred on by Hill's pursuing Ferrari. Besides the Aston, only the Saab would finish. Image Unavailable, Please Login
