Where and when?
#1
Posted 19 November 2010 - 11:47
By piperp2 at 2010-11-19
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#2
Posted 19 November 2010 - 12:02
Glyn
#3
Posted 19 November 2010 - 12:10
Edited by kayemod, 19 November 2010 - 15:50.
#4
Posted 19 November 2010 - 13:07
Definitely Brands,
Are you sure?
Edited by David Beard, 19 November 2010 - 13:08.
#5
Posted 19 November 2010 - 13:12
#6
Posted 19 November 2010 - 13:18
Glyn
#7
Posted 19 November 2010 - 13:32
#8
Posted 19 November 2010 - 14:01
Or is it just my memory playing tricks?
#9
Posted 19 November 2010 - 14:17
#10
Posted 19 November 2010 - 14:20
ZOOOM
#11
Posted 19 November 2010 - 14:30
Isn't the depth of field deceptive in that the Bottom Straight is so close to the start line? Or is that just my thought? Or was the straight re-aligned at some point?
Or is it just my memory playing tricks?
Would suggest the photo was taken with a medium telephoto lens given depth of field.
The guy with the wellies, hands in pocket, and light coloured trousers,centre left, , is the late Michael Cooper, Photographer.
#12
Posted 19 November 2010 - 14:30
Isn't the depth of field deceptive in that the Bottom Straight is so close to the start line? Or is that just my thought? Or was the straight re-aligned at some point?
Or is it just my memory playing tricks?
Would suggest the photo was taken with a medium telephoto lens given depth of field.
The guy with the wellies, hands in pocket, and light coloured trousers,centre left, , is the late Michael Cooper, Photographer.
#13
Posted 19 November 2010 - 14:36
If it was the Boxing day meeting , I would probably have been amongst the spectators shown and would be racing on a very short circuit using that road off the back straight a few years later.Thats the old ambulance gate on Kidney straight in the background with marshals post just before it. The photo appeares to be taken from the old main stand and the Shell tower was just in front of the start and finish line.
Glyn
#14
Posted 19 November 2010 - 14:51
Would suggest the photo was taken with a medium telephoto lens given depth of field.
The guy with the wellies, hands in pocket, and light coloured trousers,centre left, , is the late Michael Cooper, Photographer.
Beat me to it.
#15
Posted 19 November 2010 - 20:22
Isn't the depth of field deceptive in that the Bottom Straight is so close to the start line? Or is that just my thought? Or was the straight re-aligned at some point?
Or is it just my memory playing tricks?
Bottom Straight was realigned and renamed Cooper Straight in 1976 at the same time Paddock Hill Bend was tightened and a new pit complex built ( the main reason I believe for realigning Bottom Straight )
#16
Posted 19 November 2010 - 21:48
Bottom Straight was realigned and renamed Cooper Straight in 1976 at the same time Paddock Hill Bend was tightened and a new pit complex built ( the main reason I believe for realigning Bottom Straight )
Ah hah. I knew that that was the case of course...
Thanks Chris!
#17
Posted 06 July 2011 - 20:48
The No 9 car is definately Jacques Maglia. The reason I am absolutly certain of this because the person he's talking to was my father Jeff Elmes who was his mechanic from approx 1960 to 65-66 when Jacqes had a very bad crash (at silverstone I belive0 .As a seven year old I can remember him having his (left?) arm in a brace.If it is Boxing Day 1963, it would be the Silver City Trophy, which included largely FJ cars, but a couple of new F3 cars for 1964 as well as John Ewer's Cooper-Chev which non-started. We are probably looking at about row 3, and if it is that race, the cars pictured would be: No 6 John Mastin/Lotus, but the windscreen shape looks more Cooper, in which case it could be no 16, Mike Budge/Cooper. No 17 Gerry Meharey/Cooper, No 5 John Mew/Lotus, No 9 Jacques Maglia/Lotus.
#18
Posted 07 July 2011 - 12:10
That all seems to tie up Alan. The only thing is,assuming all cars are in position, it looks like a 3-2-3 grid line-up. I have had a glance at some old Brands programmes and it would seem that up until early 1964 a 4-3-4 system was used. I have the programme for the Easter Monday '64 event and a 4-3-4 line-up was still in use. However, later in that same season 3-2-3 was being used.If it is Boxing Day 1963, it would be the Silver City Trophy, which included largely FJ cars, but a couple of new F3 cars for 1964 as well as John Ewer's Cooper-Chev which non-started. We are probably looking at about row 3, and if it is that race, the cars pictured would be: No 6 John Mastin/Lotus, but the windscreen shape looks more Cooper, in which case it could be no 16, Mike Budge/Cooper. No 17 Gerry Meharey/Cooper, No 5 John Mew/Lotus, No 9 Jacques Maglia/Lotus.
Does the 1963 Boxing Day programme have the boxes for filling in the grid line-up, and, if so, what pattern was used that day?