Iconic images of Formula One

[Olivier]

Great pics Incubus! (specially the last one)

 

[ATL11]

That would be awesome but will never happen. Even then it was considered too dangerous. Like a small Nurburg, even twistier yet faster, and the topography makes its impossible to widen the current track to modern F1 standards...

Rouen-Les-Essarts was also quite spectacular in its own way. Here's Fangio approaching the unusual cobbled hairpin in his 250F:

Wonder what telemetry settings F1 cars of today would use for a cobbled hairpin?

 

[Incubus]

I agree Olivier , so much so that Ive adopted it as my new desktop page.

 

[Incubus]

This one ATL11 ?

 

[siffert_fan]

Clark, winning as usual. Notice the rear wheel.

 

[Incubus]

Perfect win for Colin Chapman then! The car did fall apart as it crossed the finishing line.

Going back even further: action from Monaco 1933, the first Grand Prix where the starting grid was decided by quickest lap times in practice as opposed to balloting methods...

 

[Incubus]

And here's Raymond Sommer attempting to qualify for it, not bothering with headgear nor goggles:

 

[Olivier]

Perfect win for Colin Chapman then! The car did fall apart as it crossed the finishing line.

Going back even further: action from Monaco 1933, the first Grand Prix where the starting grid was decided by quickest lap times in practice as opposed to balloting methods...

Monaco 1933, the best Grand Prix of them all?

http://www.grandprix.com/ft/ft00368.html

An excerpt of the article:

"Nuvolari's car caught fire but, as fireman ran to help, the great Italian drove on, down the hill - his car ablaze. Even when it ran out of momentum Nuvolari refused to accept defeat and climbed out to push the burning car." =

 

[FB]

The Monza Gorilla crashing just after crossing the line to win his only GP - Austria '75

 

[FB]

The first win for Ron Dennis' McLaren team - John Watson, British GP 1981

 

[Incubus]

Olivier , after posting that pic of Sommer at Monaco in 1933 I looked up stuff about him and I was quite impressed by his achievement in winning Le Mans in 1932 because his team-mate LuigiChinetti had to withdraw early on in the race because of illness. So he drove the remaining 20 hours by himself.

Winning Le Mans practically solo, that's gotta be some sort of record surely?

 

[FB]

I think it was in the 50's that they banned just one driver from doing all 24 hours as one French bloke (and I can't remember his name) tried and fell asleep at the wheel 22 hours in.

 

[teabagyokel]

FB - It was Pierre Levegh, and he lead into the last hour of the race before breaking a connecting rod. I believe this is what attracted Mercedes to sign him for 1955, where of course he perished.

 

[KekeTheKing]

I must say I quite liked the McLaren with yellow accents this weekend.

I'd been meaning to post a picture of the yellow livery that McLaren ran with Rosberg back in 1986. I have a good one somewhere on the computer, but for now I'll just post one from the interwebs.

 

[siffert_fan]

Sir Jackie Stewart winning the 1968 German GP in the worst conditions I have seen a race run in. Pouring rain with blinding fog. Siffert said that he passed Surtees on the straight and didn't even know he was there, the visibility was so bad!

 

[siffert_fan]

Fangio in the Mercedes @ Goodwood

 

[Olivier]

Olivier , after posting that pic of Sommer at Monaco in 1933 I looked up stuff about him and I was quite impressed by his achievement in winning Le Mans in 1932 because his team-mate LuigiChinetti had to withdraw early on in the race because of illness. So he drove the remaining 20 hours by himself.

Winning Le Mans practically solo, that's gotta be some sort of record surely?

Incubus; those were the times ...

 

[KekeTheKing]

Jules Bianchi at the 2011 Young Drivers Test in Abu Dhabi

 

[Incubus]

Title-winning celebrations...

 

[Incubus]