I raise my glass of 'Johnnie Walker' in memory of Francois and Ken and think of the good time's.
I have a bunch on my computer at work from a mid seventies trip to Watkins Glen and some Can Am stuff at Pocono. I'll see what I can dig up tomorrow. Clay Regazzoni at the wheel of the Ferrari and Mario Andretti driving the John Player Special, as I recall.
A more recent of Cevert in the 2001 Robbie Williams (who else could he be trying to portray) music video Love Supreme http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHC7YIwnyQs A bit tongue in cheek, but it was fun to watch and brought back memories of this great period in F1 racing!
For me, very strange as I never heard of Robbie "Bob" Williams. If he was portraying Cevert, I wish all that happened to Francois was to be locked in his motor home.
He has been popular in England for a while, I know his video is a far more pleasant than reality. I recently watched the 1970s documentary "the Quick and the Dead" which had some great interviews with Cevert, as well as Revson and others, painful to watch how dangerous the racing was and how poor the quality of the safety teams were back then (Williamson's accident in particular). I started following F1 in 1972 and probably have fonder memories of the 1970s racing than I should, but I have been a passionate fan ever since. It was tough being a fan of a particular driver during the 70s, my favorites were Revson, Lauda, Peterson and Villenueve. I stopped picking favorite drivers after 1982 until the late 80s and became a Senna fan... Great cars, great personalities during this period, but thank god it is not as dangerous now.
When racing was dangerous, and sex was safe. Now sex is dangerous, and racing is safe. I have a copy of "The Quick And The Dead" (not the western), very shocking film. Revson was the first driver that I took a portrait of and never had the chance to get autographed. Then Francois and Gilles. From then on, I had the enlarged print by the next race. Racing was tough in those days. But somehow, you must respect those drivers more than today's woosies. My first heros were Lorenzo Bandini and Fireball Roberts. Then I lost Sachs, Clark, Rindt, Weatherly, Cevert, Donohue, Tom Pryce, Bruce McLaren not to forget those that died in other types of accidents like Graham Hill, Curtis Turner, Al Holbert. Watching them on TV was one thing, you can't really get close. Getting to meet them time and time again, take their photos, and then they went missing, that really sucked.
Some F1 shots. Those were the days. YOu could wander right up to the guardrails and take as many pictures as you wanted. Same with the Camel GT (I think these were IMSA races) parked in the infield, and was about 20 feet from the action. Dave Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
I just had some prints scanned, couldn't find as of now the internegs. Scans are just OK, plan to have them color corrected tomorrow. For now, I will post one of my favorite non-corrected photos, of one of my favorite drivers, Mark Donohue. I kept this photo, got it autographed by Mark, gave a copy to Penske. The setting is Daytona, the first ever IROC race, when it really was an international race of champions. The cars were identical of course Porsches. Mark won. He was just so great. Photo will be color corrected and enhanced this week. Image Unavailable, Please Login
I finally got around to scanning some of the photos I took at the 1976 U.S. Grand Prix at Watkins Glen. This was only the second race I had ever attended ('75 being the first), but it was the first where I had competent equipment, in the form of a brand-new Canon FTb SLR. It was the only year I shot prints; afterwards I stuck to slides, so I will have to get a slide scanner before I can post later pics. These photos were taken on Sunday morning as the teams pushed (or drove) the cars from the Kendall garage down to the pits. I think newcomers will be shocked at how accessible the cars and drivers were those days. All this was with an ordinary paddock pass which anyone could buy for $10! It's obviously Ronnie Peterson driving the March, and I do believe that it is Patrick Depailler driving the Tyrrell six-wheeler. My apologies for the faded color and other "artifacts". Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Here are Lauda and Regazzoni headed pitward, Niki just a couple of months removed from his Nurburgring accident. Then a solitary Alan Jones, not looking much like a future World Champion. The third photo is interesting. The late Gunnar Nillson almost completely hides teammate Mario Andretti. Now who could the young lad in the JPS suit be? Hmm..... Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Dave-thank you for those f1 pics;they are from the 1976 season, the first full year I started following F1....
Here are a few more I happened to already have scanned. I only have about 15% of my slides at home right now, the rest are in storage. Went to every Long Beach F1 race and the first one or two CART races there. I went to all of the Riverside IMSA races, Riverside was a great track to photograph. I miss it dearly. Cheers, Kurt O. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
You are correct. Race 1, 2, and 3 were at Riverside in 1973, my photo was from the first year finale which took place at Daytona in February of 1974. Peter Revson was in second at that race. In this photo, Donohue was crowned the frist IROC champion. In years later, IROC began the season at Daytona.
Gotta get these color corrected. This is one of Jackie Icyx, at Watkins Glen: Image Unavailable, Please Login
Somewhere. I did already post the mirror shot of Brian Redman in the F5000 at Elkhart. I do remember photos of drivers like Brett Lunger, but where they are I am not sure. I will look.
Very, very cool thread! Here are some assorted of Senna, Piquet, Mansell, Stewart, Clark, and Fangio. Obviously, some of them are pre-1970. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
