Any relation to Groucho?
Tom

Oh very good Tom. Top Marx!

It took him long enough!

You have to allow for the time difference. He's five hours behind us.

Actually I am surprised nobody mentioned Groucho before me!
Tom

I was also in the main grandstand. I remember we got into a bit of an altercation with some Italians over our seat numbers but it turned out we were in the wrong, and then had to push in with the rest of the P&M people, which didn't make us very popular there either...

So it was you!

The other memorable thing that day was John Fitzpatrick wining the GT race in the Porsche to tumultuous applause from the Brits in the main stand!

Unfortunately my camera at that time couldn't really deal with anything on the move

at Monza, 1971 or 1972?

1972

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Bruno
[B]



Monaco 1978, Thursday paddock



saturday, Virage de la Rascasse exit paddock. . . and T car



Can anybody help, does anybody know the name of the mechanic on the left of the car (our right) I think its "Noel ......."

A nice shot of Dick Smothers at MidAmerica Raceway outside St. Louis in mid-60s? Any help on the date?

Based on the name of driver Lou Sell on the transporter, 1968. That is the year that Sell drove an Eagle F-5000 in Smothers livery.

(note the state of the art paddock!)
Tom

Your right Tom, first class all the way

[QUOTE]Originally posted by zakeriath
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Bruno
[B]



Monaco 1978, Thursday paddock



saturday, Virage de la Rascasse exit paddock. . . and T car

Can anybody help, does anybody know the name of the mechanic on the left of the car (our right) I think its "Noel ......." [/QUOTE]



in great resolution:




and Monaco 1979:


i dont no the name mecanic

I've just been reading Simon Arron's column in this weeks MN and somehow thought I've been here before

Hi Paul

The trigger for the latest ramble down memory lane was the realisation that Roger Williamson would have been 61 last week. To me he's still the freckle-faced youngster completing an F3 victory lap at Oulton Park, just before the F2 race on March 31 '72. The tricks of time's passage etc etc...
SA

Hyah Simon

There certain images etched into my (little) brain of David Purley at Zandvoort that I wish weren't there

Roger Williamson on the Dodgems the night before the 73 GP at Silverstone leaves a happier memory

(There was a little fun fair behind the Woodcote stands).

Hi,
I took this picture at the Imola GP in 1988? i think the car looks really great


Peter

Richard Divilla ?

It isn't Richard Divila! I don't know who it is, only who it isn't...

...Ricardo Divila has blonde hairs and blue eyes.

Yes indeed, positively Aryan...

Not as old as many of the photos on here I'm afraid, but hopefully these pics from the 1990 Oulton Park Gold Cup F3/F3000 meeting will be of interest. Unfortunately racing isn't my main area of expertise, so I can only identify the drivers here - maybe someone else can add a bit more info?

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Rob Lees
[B]Not as old as many of the photos on here I'm afraid, but hopefully these pics from the 1990 Oulton Park Gold Cup F3/F3000 meeting will be of interest. Unfortunately racing isn't my main area of expertise, so I can only identify the drivers here - maybe someone else can add a bit more info?


Mika Hakkinen



PaulStewart

That's not Dick Bennetts with Mika there, is it? I don't recall him that blond!

I can also spot Christian Fittipaldi, Mika Salo and Jackie Stewart in the pics, but that's about it!

The chap in the middle with the moustache is local Oulton Formula Ford driver David Mellor, who has nothing to do with the F3/F3000 drivers whatsoever

Is that Richard Dean signing autographs?

Mika Salo with his arms folded.

Third left in red shirt and glasses is Mr Van Diemen - Ralph Firman

You sure? Looks a bit young to me...

That's just what I was thinkin'

Can I share a few snaps from the (I think) 1971 Daily Express International Trophy at Silverstone?

From the prize-giving (no I don't know how I got there either!)


































Dear Old Graham Hill,Mike Hailwood and Raymond Baxter.

And to finish off,an evil looking Pedro (I think)





Who else is at the ceremony??

Regards,

mgtd

http://www.picsearch.com/pictures/athletes...h%20firman.html

That's RF Junior. His father, RF senior ran Van Dieman.

Priceless!

yesterday



today

Haig also worked for Penske Racing in the early 1970s. He came to McLarens in Colnbrook with Karl Kainhofer in '71 and/or '72 to build a Penske McLaren M16. He was a nice guy - happy to put up with a 13 year old pestering him with questions about America.

Well the only thread I've started so far got locked :\
So I suppose I better try and reprieve myself
Dont forget I'm just a punter from the other side of the fence, but I'm a hard faced b*gger as well.
If I get half a chance to blag my way into a pit garage there's no stopping me
I'll let you lot Identify the year for me as usual
We'll start with McLaren










When we get chucked out of there we move on to Lotus




Err Renault?


Even Benetton let me in for a short while, they probably thought I was a male model


Last but not least F-F-F spit errari


And it must have been a long time ago cos' this is me and I must have been a 30 waist then


Apologies for the backlit shot But I didnt take it

Lotus-Lamborghini = 1990.

The 'err-Renault' is a Williams (with a Renault engine, of course ).

Those F1 cars from 1989-1991 always looked great and very interesting with their bodywork off, particularly the McLaren-Hondas. Thanks for posting the pictures.

Monaco 1975 Thursday: Embassy/Hill


Penske:




Brabham:




1976: Tyrrell




1977: Ensign




Ford Cosworth


Matra V12 (Ligier)


1978: Alfa Romeo (Brabham)


Arrows


Renault (Renault. the true one)


in 1979

Those were the days when one could get right up there and take some pix. No fences, no turnstyles, no gestapo guards. no swipe IDs, just go in and take your shots! To Bruno and others who were able to do it, I can only say YOU LUCKY DOGS!
Tom

Yes, the photos from the 1970s are much more intimate and informal, as epitomised by the cars from 1975 in various states of assembly. The picture of the rear end of the Hill is great!

I don´t know, how it is now...but a friend of mine told me 10 years ago, that during a race-weekend at the Indycars the fans have the possibility to come closely to the cars like in the old years of F1-racing...very sad, that F1 became such a Fort-Know-esque sport...

yes, of course.
I have chance to have seen completed GP at one time. who will not be any more.
to see and discuss with the drivers and engineer, touched the cars.

more:
Monaco 1971
Andretti before the Thursday


Ickx after the race


Monaco 1974, Guedini:


push 312 B3 after the qualif with Clay and Luca: ha-ha-ha-ha


Monaco 1975:


Monaco 1978 in the pit-line:


debrienfing, Forghieri, Villeneuve, Dupasquier, Nosetto:


Monza 1990:

Great stuff, Bruno! You really must have had some wonderful times!
Tom

Back to the more prosaic surroundings of the pits at Brands Hatch, some shots from the James Hunt Trophy in 1977:

Chevron B37, Allison


I'm always hoping someone will pop up and say 'that's me in that pic'. Don't try to pretend you're Divina


Musetti's March 761


Surtees TS16


Trimmer's Surtees TS19


I'm taking offers on this one...Presumably that's yer man sitting there looking fed up - someone will know!

In one of the photos is Max Aitken of the Daily Express, Aitken being I think the son of Lord Beaverbrook, Express supremo in the mid twentieth century.
Not sure about the older gentleman on the left, nor, in other photos, the gent with the dangling paddock pass....Peter Scott-Russell? Probably not. I suppose it could be someone from GKN.

The Honorable Max Aitken was,indeed, the son of Lord Beaverbrook. He was a fighter pilot during the Battle of Britain and go on to become a Wing Commander and win the DSO and DFC. During the battle, he would call his father every night to report that he was still alive.
William Maxwell Aitken was a dynamic and widely distrusted press tycoon, millionaire owner of the Daily Express and the Evening Standard. Churchill named him Minister of Aircraft Production over the strong objections of both the king and queen. Churchill chose him for the job of increasing aircraft production, which had fallen badly behind schedule, counting on Beaverbrook's energy and ruthlessness to get the job done, even though Beaverbrook knew little or nothing about manufacturing planes. This turned out to be an advantage---what "The Beaver" did know was how to produce results, and of course how to motivate and when necessary, bully, men. He devised ingenious ways to make new aircraft out of damaged ones.
(From "With Wings Like Eagles" by Michael Korda.