Iconic images of Formula One

[Incubus]

Toasting their last duel at Bercy, Karting Masters December 1993...

 

[Bushi]

Never saw these before The Artist..... , looking at that last pic Senna is posing next to four different manufacturers and an array of different sponsors. I'm not sure we could see any of today's drivers being even allowed to do that by their respective backers. Conflicts of interests etc...

Last racer i can imagine is Rossi, drove a Yamaha and was sponsored by Fiat.

 

[Mephistopheles]

Federico Kroymans in his crashed 1999 Ferrari F399 at Laguna Seca. How did he not lose his legs?

 

[siffert_fan]

Jochen Rindt survived this wreck with a broken nose and hairline skull fracture at the 1969 Spanish GP. How he survived is beyond me!!

 

[siffert_fan]

Here's an image taken earlier in the crash.

 

[Olivier]

Lotus' cars were extremely fragile, particularly in the late 60's and early 70's. I think the cars with the elevated rear wings were the most dangerous ones ...

 

[siffert_fan]

Graham and Rindt both crashed in Spain because the rear wing supports snapped. Both drivers survived relatively unscathed though, so the cockpit area had to be pretty robust, although the rest of the car was certainly open to question.

 

[Incubus]

The only two instances of drivers overshooting the harbour chicane at Monaco, and in the process overshooting... well, the harbour.

Alberto Ascari, 1955:

Paul Hawkins in 1965:

 

[F1Yorkshire]

Couple of interesting but tragic facts about those last couple of posts.
Both Rindt and Ascari both died at Monza, in Ascari's case it was just a few days after that harbour excursion.

The other fact is that both drivers who ended up in the harbour died in crashes on the 26th of May.

 

[KekeTheKing]

Alesi and Berger lock out the front row at Monza 94

 

[ZakspeedYakspeed]

'88 ... Jean-Louis didn't get the McLaren memo and takes out race leader Senna ... ends up beached on kerb with rear wheels spinning harmlessly off the ground ....

 

[KekeTheKing]

Few people make such an impact in their lone Grand Prix start.

 

[Incubus]

Alesi and Berger lock out the front row at Monza 94

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To this day I still remember that line in Autosport in their race review when Alesi went in for his first stop while in the lead, and was unable to get going again after something went wrong with the car's electronics: "The reaction was on the Richter scale"...

 

[FB]

Just because it's Jarier.

 

[ATL11]

My 3:

 

[Incubus]

It's only when you look at the rear-view image of the above pic that it become clear why Nigel couldn't fit inside the cockpit of the 1995 McLaren...

 

[gethinceri]

He has pride in always being "the bigger man".

 

[Incubus]

Jim Clark leading the field in the 1965 French GP on his way to secure the last win for the iconic Lotus 25 after the new 33 broke down in practice.

Charade was one hell of a spectacular setting for a Grand Prix to be run at.

 

[soccerman17]

Bring it back?

 

[Incubus]

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: