I vaguely remember Horst Kroll. Why does his trailer say he was 1986 Can Am Champion?

Because he was.

Ah the last year. Totally forgot that. I guess my brother didn't do a good enough job. He as the PR director for the 2nd Can Am.

He was also a backmarker for several years in F5000, driving old cars and, according to what I read, building his own engines. No chance of winning but out there apparently for the fun of it.

Kroll got better as the series got worse. He was still driving the same two cars that he'd had in F5000 - one of them since 1972 - but as many of the serious competitors moved on to other things, a couple of former backmarkers - Kroll and Bill Tempero - found themselves battling for the title.

I was in Silverstone last weekend.

gio66:

Excellent work!

Thx!

It's been a difficult journey from Italy but I've got so many unforgettable emotions (Big John!!!)

I'm just beginning to sort through some of my old snaps. Not many paddock shots but here's one of Mario Andretti in the Brands Hatch paddock with ? at the 1980 British GP

De Cesaris' photos, please!

Forza Andrea,

RIR paddock and one other location, 1984

Michael Roe car near the southwest corner of RIR's paddock/garage area

[img]http://www.fototime.com/1BED9EEF5348245/thumbnail.jpg][/img] P.L. Newman outside Turn Two; my daughter inside Turn Two, "In a picture with Paul Newman!"

Unidentified man listens to P.L. Newman, who was not dressed for publishable photos.

What's the road car in the second shot? A Maserati Bi-Turbo?

A few of these images have appeared on this thread previously, but I thought as I haven't posted here for yonks, I'd pop on a link to some sports car images from the early 70s at Brands.

http://62.149.36.46/~bruce/cgi-bin/boac.html

There are even a couple of trucks visible - well bits of them!

Yes

http://www.milleauto.it/expo/idealcar/2006-02/208g.jpg

These are some a friend and I took at WG in 1980.

Laffitte looking amused after almost backing over us.



Patrese looking bemused. The motorhomes in those days were still pretty small.



Gilles on his way to work



Watson's McLaren



Gilles' Ferrari, with the smallish Michelins on. I think they used these to make it easier to manouver the car around the garage.



A Brabham DFV and cockpit





Rear of the Ferrari exposed




The winning Williams. The Lotus wrecked in Montreal the week before sits covered up in the background.



Another view, taken by the handsome guy in the white coat in the previous pic.



You will notice that I had a beer in my pocket, so as to use both hands on the camera.

Great pictures dbltop! But what else can a guy expect from a Clark/Lotus fan

Seems like yesterday, but it is over a quarter of a century ago I loved the Williams complete with sponsorship by British Leyland, and a great shot of the immortal Gilles, nobody ever tried harder.


Sterling

Great pics thankyou, in the days when you could get near the drivers without having a Holographic pass!!
seems like yesterday (sterling already said that :\ but it does!!, were did it go
Graham.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by picblanc
Great pics thankyou, in the days when you could get near the drivers without having a Holographic pass!!
seems like yesterday (sterling already said that :\ but it does!!, were did it go
Graham. [/QUOTE

Graham, I looked at those pictures after watching Hendrix and Santana and the great Joe Cocker on the Woodstock DVD ......I need a cup of cocoa now and an Arrow Root biscuit, before I retire to bed It was delivered with my copy of Grand Prix, I should have watched that instead!!!!


Sterling

Excelents Photos!!!!

Wonderful stuff dbltop - thanks for posting. I'm presuming that's not Jones in the Williams, but perhaps Frank Dernie? (Ducks for cover as I'm bound to be wrong...)

I think you are correct, looks like Dernie, well spotted!


Sterling

dbtop:

Could you get a little closer next time?

Kidding of course, fabulous, simply fabulous stuff. Looks like the Kendall Center in a few of those shots.

The person in the cockpit of the Williams FW07 is Wayne Eckersley - Australian No. 1 mechanic on Jones' car. No. 2 mechanic John Jackson is to the left, and Chief Mechanic Ian Anderson is to the right in the green jacket.

Attached to the seat belts hanging over the cockpit sides are the springs which were located in the wheel hubs to retain the wheel nuts should they undo. These were fitted at the beginning of races but were generally replaced in a pitstop wheel change. Automatic locking devices came sometime later.

Just visible to the side of the radiator exit ducts are bent aluminium strips to hold the sliding skirts up when manouvering the car.

Incidently LEYLAND VEHICLES sponsorship was from the Truck company, and not the car manufacturer British Leyland.

. . . and the white tube is for the life support air system connected to the side of the drivers helmet.

You were a talented drinking mans photographer mate!! thanks for the shots!

The rubber on the Ferrari looks like manky old Goodyear G8s/G800s

I had always wondered what those funny little wheels/tyres on the Ferraris were for. Thanks for clearing it up!

You should see some of the "slave wheels" (at least that's what I call them) used on some of today's open-wheeled cars. They look like BMX tires!

Kyalami, late 70`s

Strictly, photos from the pit lane, so neither track or paddock - perhaps a new thread is called for..

1986 British GP, Brands Hatch

Gerhard Berger and Martin Brundle


Brabham pit with the BT54, and Brundle/Tyrrell


Johnny Dumfries and Ligier pit


Gordon Murray and Derek Warwick


Riccardo Patrese


Rene Arnoux/Ligier and Michele Alboreto

New picture on my website at le Mans 1977



Archives Claude Briand

Donington Park European F3 Championship 1978


Anders Olofsson and Jan Lammers


Bobby Rahal looking 29 years younger, and Daniel Herregods

I wonder why Anders Olofsson never did a single race in Formula 1 ?! Any answers ?!
Great pictures, Alan !

Any shots of Trevor Van Rooyen in the works SDC builders backed March at that meeting, Alan?
Trevor did a few F3 races that summer, during the break in the South African F.Atlantic
season, which he was doing with Team Gunston.

The plan was move up to F3 for a full British season in '78 after his successful '77 FF season,
but very difficult for South Africans to get sponsorship with the politics in that country at the
time. Bob Reynolds and Dave Ledsom of SDC could however afford to back him for half a
dozen races but not the full season. Infact they were so loyal to Trevor they were actively
searching for other companies at the beginning of the year to come in with them, but to no avail
as others did not want to sponsor a South African. Trevor was on the short list for the Unipart
F3 drive, they did however provide a car for a one-off drive in the British GP support race (which
lasted 100 yards in the huge shunt) but again the politics prevented him from doing the full season
with them.Team Gunston were offering a paid drive back home in South African so a 'no brainer'
actually.

A couple of 4th place finishes were his best in F3 and high hopes for a good performance at
Donington. Eddie Pinto from Team Gunston came to the UK to see him drive that weekend. In the
final he was running 10th, lost it at the old hairpin and spun back across the road hitting the wall
on the inside. A big impact that put him in hospital in Derby for a couple of days. This Euro F3 race
was on the Saturday, he therefore missed the Monday August bank holiday Silverstone club circuit
meeting a couple of days later, SDC's home circuit where they had a hospitality box for a number of
years. A big weekend for F3 back then! I recall Alain Prost rolling his Martini into the Woodcote catch
fencing during this race, a lot of the Euro guys stayed on to do the Silverstone race too. So that was
the end of Trevor's short career in Europe, back to South Africa where he became F2 champion in
1985 in the DAW Maurer.

Trevor returned to the UK in 1989, to build engines for the works Fulmar Reynard team of Bernard
Dolan and Gil de Ferran. He said he missed the intense competition that only the UK scene could
provide. SDC had stayed in the sport, putting their stickers on Bernard Devaney's FF PRS at that
'78 bank holiday Silverstone meeting, thereby giving their guests someone to cheer on as Trevor laid
in hospital. David Wheeler then received their backing in FF from 1979 to '82 and he also joined SDC
as sales director. Other drivers in FF such as Keith Fine, Gary Ward and John Village also carried their
backing through the 1980s, but as soon as Trevor returned, they wanted an involvement and switched
their sponsorship to Dolan's car in 1989, then Gareth Rees in 1990 and Fionn Murray in '91 as Trevor also
built their Auriga engines.

Any sorry to go slightly OT, any photos?

MONEY.....

None of Trevor from that meeting, Andrew. I did post one from Mallory in 1978 on the ",,photos from the track.." thread a while back. If you can't find them, I can try to re-post

Andrew.

I did David Wheelers SDC stickers and painted his helmet.

SDC were good sponsors in their day.

Cheers,

Alan

Oh yes, I'd forgotten you did those Alan. I did the later ones for Gary Ward and
Tim Ransom's SDC Metro based on your design

I also painted and signwrote the top of the pit board for Dave Wheeler. It was infact
my father's 'Les Leston' pitboard with magnetic number plates, previously used by
Nick Wattiez in F5000 and by Malcolm Malone when he was mechanic for Hailwood also
in F5000. Wonder if David still has it? A big heavy old thing compared to today.

A good question. He was one of those who just slipped through the net.

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Melyvn Adams & Jon Mowatt at C Palace 29/5/72

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S Moser in the paddock at Crystal Palace 29/5/72

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Silvio Moser was a hero of mine along with Bob Anderson and all the other F1 privateers.
Moser's Brabham BT38 at Crystal Palace May 72.

Now this isn't a very interesting photo............but if somebody could tell me what on earth it is, I'd be most grateful I didn't make a note and I've lost the programme.

It's at an HSCC meeting at the end of 2002, and it was either in the CRC class or the DBT:



Ta very much.........

Paul M

Hi Richie !

Do you have pics or testimonies about Mike Beuttler ? It's for my book about him.

Thanks in advance with my best regards.

Phinorman

There have been so many great images posted on this thread that I hesitate to add mine.

It is something I have wanted to do since joining but all our race pictures existed only on slide film.
My husband and I had taken thousands of pictures over the course of a decade or so (70s) and the slides, labeled and cataloged, were stored away in boxes in back of a closet for many years. With a newly empty nest, we have dragged them all out and have begun to go through them, selecting some of the best to be put on CDs. This had been a time-consuming project and I have only one CD done, so far, of my pictures taken between '73 and '75. Had to choose just a couple to post on here. We just wanted to share them with someone who might appreciate them. Our children have no interest and we just hated the thought of them all going unseen forever more.

So....hopefully....I will be successful with my first attempt.
Mosport 1974


Mosport 1973


Watkins Glen 1974


Watkins Glen 1974
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Watkins Glen 1974


Linda Carlson

Oh, amazing pictures !!! I love that F1 era ! More, if you please and thanks so much for sharing.

Thanks so much! That means a lot. Formula One racing sort of consumed our lives back then.

Those WERE the days. At least for us.

LinC

I will try a few more.

Watkins Glen 1975








Mosport 1973



Linda Carlson

Ooops!

Mario was not supposed to be in there twice, obviously.

Here is the image I meant to put in there

Watkins Glen 1975



LinC

Thank You!


Do you have any of Eppie Wietzes from 1974? Or of Helmut Koinigg?

I was going to graduate school in Rochester during 74 and 75 and went to the GP both years. These bring back a lot of good memories. And a damn site better than I could do!

I especially like the last one. Regazzoni was always a favorite.