Classic but forgotten racing images.

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Colin Chapman is getting a piece of advice on how to run his F1 team;

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Nürburgring atmosphere in 1960:

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You can almost feel the cold with this picture!

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xpensive wrote:Colin Chapman is getting a piece of advice on how to run his F1 team;

http://www.lotusespritturbo.com/Margare ... n_Thum.jpg
More'n likely ol' Maggie'd learned how to ruthlessly cut everything to ( beyond) the bone.. ..from Chapman..

Mind you.. ..the thought of all that iron ballast sitting on his machine was an irritation to him..
"Well, we knocked the bastard off!"

Ed Hilary on being 1st to top Mt Everest,
(& 1st to do a surface traverse across Antarctica,
in good Kiwi style - riding a Massey Ferguson farm
tractor - with a few extemporised mod's to hack the task).

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Ah but to be there anyway :wink:
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1981 San Marino Reutemann .. Williams FW07c
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Belgian GP, Spa 1962 Winner, Jim Clark Lotus 25
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Winner Jacques Lafitte Ligier JS7. First GP win for Ligier and for Lafitte Swedish GP, Anderstorp, 1977
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1975 Tony Brise GH1 at Anderstorp
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ABB Feinkost GmbH Krefeld :mrgreen: I wonder how much the company had to pay for that.

I'd love to see this straight and kerb back in the calendar..
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Tony Southgate's gorgeous 1972 BRM P180, a shame it was such a dog;

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GB , what year was this Austrian GP ?

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xpensive wrote:Tony Southgate's gorgeous 1972 BRM P180, a shame it was such a dog;

http://www.hallandhall.net/images/stock/bp1.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... ection.jpg
We have a P180 racing this year at New Zealands Hampton Downs track. Very much looking forward to seeing that car

http://www.nzfmr.co.nz/info_pages.php/p ... ages_id/14

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Alain Prost, Mclaren 1996
"Explain the ending to F1 in football terms"
"Hamilton was beating Verstappen 7-0, then the ref decided F%$& rules, next goal wins
while also sending off 4 Hamilton players to make it more interesting"

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The grid of the marvellous rain-soaked 1968 GP at Nurburgring;

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Jackie Stewart won the race by four (4) minutes, almost driving by memory in the fog;

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Yes, definitely one of the most remarkable performance ever. He was on another planet that day. The kind of race a racing driver has once in his career I think. Magic!

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Danny Sullivan's spin and win in 1985!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7tuBeLL0wg
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Peter Gethin beating Ronnie with 0.01s to win the Italian GP at Monza 1971, both almost sans wings;

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I really love this thread !

Thanks to members who post all this pics !