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#1 Cirrus

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Posted 27 November 2015 - 07:41

For those that can access the BBC website, a few nice photos have appeared...

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk...ctures-34898905


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#2 Barry Boor

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Posted 27 November 2015 - 08:16

I love the first one. Ron Flockhart's Connaught in the centre of the picture. Started 23rd on the eighth row of the grid - finished third....... Nostalgia at its very best!

#3 pete53

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Posted 27 November 2015 - 09:07

I like the one with Denny Hulme sitting in his F1 Brabham having to wait behind a humble Mini to refuel.



#4 zoff2005

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Posted 27 November 2015 - 14:20

Had already seen the one of Colin Vandervell, and showed it to him some time ago and again today. He is of course the one sitting on the back wheel. I think it's Brendan McInerney on the right. The girl is unknown and had anyway nothing to do with Colin! He says he still has the jacket and uses it for gardening, or perhaps for taking out the trash! The car belonged to the works.

Marcus



#5 Michael Ferner

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Posted 27 November 2015 - 14:37

My, does that Nürburgring look a lot like some spanish park... Olé!

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#6 IanWegg

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Posted 27 November 2015 - 18:03

That's a nice set of pictures. Does anyone know if there is a particular reason why they've appeared on the BBC News website today, there's nothing obvious in the text?

 

There is a credit at the bottom of the page for the source: http://motorsportfri...chive/pictures/

 

~iw



#7 Vitesse2

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Posted 27 November 2015 - 19:37

That's a nice set of pictures. Does anyone know if there is a particular reason why they've appeared on the BBC News website today, there's nothing obvious in the text?

 

There is a credit at the bottom of the page for the source: http://motorsportfri...chive/pictures/

 

~iw

I was wondering that too, Ian. Auntie isn't usually known for giving plugs for books on the website - but the page does specifically mention their title 'Gasoline and Magic': TNFer Colbul1 gave it a thumbs up a couple of months ago

 

http://forums.autosp...65#entry7335182



#8 Cirrus

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Posted 27 November 2015 - 19:43

 I think it's Brendan McInerney on the right.

 

...I wondered if it might be Alan Jones. I thought Brendan McInerney was shorter than that - however, I'm not sure that Alan Jones would have worn white leather slip-ons.



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Posted 27 November 2015 - 21:44

The thing about these random extracts is you can pick up info that you won't get in even the most erudite tomes.  Who on earth is Erwin Sommerhalder? 



#10 Tim Murray

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Posted 27 November 2015 - 22:07

Swiss hillclimber, mentioned in some earlier threads, eg:

Formula 1 class in hillclimbs

1952 Maloja hill-climb

and here are Barrie Hobkirk's thoughts on the car:
 

Dear Macca,
In late 1956 the Interim 250F numbered 2510 (a 1953 A6GCM fitted with a 1954 250F motor) was taken in by the Factory and refurbished. It was fitted with one of the engines used in the 'cast-asside' "Streamliner" 2518. When sold to Swiss Hervin Sommerhalder in November 1956, it carried the paperwork identifying it as 2518. No connection what-so-ever to 2512.
An all to typical Maserat story.
Cheers,
Barrie



#11 Vitesse2

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Posted 27 November 2015 - 22:11

The thing about these random extracts is you can pick up info that you won't get in even the most erudite tomes.  Who on earth is Erwin Sommerhalder? 

Don't think he ever competed outside Switzerland but you'll find him in the entry list for the Erlen sports car race in 1949 in an MG TC. Owned various Masers including the ex-Mandirola 6C.



#12 john aston

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Posted 28 November 2015 - 08:05

Targa Florio please; but wonderful shots.In 2015 one cannot imagine even a  driver in a BTCC support race queuing for petrol - at a pump :yawnface:  



#13 dolomite

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Posted 28 November 2015 - 08:36

Is that actually Hulme or is it a mechanic sitting in the car?

#14 Catalina Park

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Posted 28 November 2015 - 08:46

Is that actually Hulme or is it a mechanic sitting in the car?

Both.

#15 IanWegg

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Posted 28 November 2015 - 09:54

I was wondering that too, Ian. Auntie isn't usually known for giving plugs for books on the website - but the page does specifically mention their title 'Gasoline and Magic': TNFer Colbul1 gave it a thumbs up a couple of months ago

 

http://forums.autosp...65#entry7335182

 

Ah thanks!  I hadn't made the connection that "Gasoline and Magic" in the first caption was a book title.

 

~iw



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Posted 28 November 2015 - 14:23

...I wondered if it might be Alan Jones. I thought Brendan McInerney was shorter than that - however, I'm not sure that Alan Jones would have worn white leather slip-ons.

 

I think it is Bev Bond, whose "original" Ensign is now up for auction with Bonhams I see.

 

Slightly baffled as to why the BBC website would be showing these images, but they are a strange organisation at best. More images if you click on the link at the bottom of the page if you haven't done so already...



#17 Michael Ferner

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Posted 28 November 2015 - 15:19

Which link, please - there are about a million!

(And I don't want to end up on yet another pointless celeb page...)

#18 Rob Miller

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Posted 28 November 2015 - 15:23

On the link at the bottom of the page there is a picture labeled "1962 Cheshunt, Lotus fac­tory — David Buxton’s Lotus Elite"

 

Did this car ever compete with the wobbly-web wheels, and were there others without wire wheels?



#19 MCS

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Posted 28 November 2015 - 15:34

Which link, please - there are about a million!

(And I don't want to end up on yet another pointless celeb page...)

 

This one:  http://motorsportfriends.ch/



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#20 Michael Ferner

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Posted 28 November 2015 - 17:42

Thanks, MC!

:)

#21 MCS

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Posted 28 November 2015 - 18:35

I think it is Bev Bond, whose "original" Ensign is now up for auction with Bonhams I see.

 

Slightly baffled as to why the BBC website would be showing these images, but they are a strange organisation at best. More images if you click on the link at the bottom of the page if you haven't done so already...

 

Looking at the F2 Register site and the F3 results, the meeting appears to be the October Shell Super Oil round, won by Jochen Mass in his Brabham BT35.

 

Is that Historic racer Richard Bond stood behind Vandervell at the back?

 

I had always hoped that Vandervell would write a book about his racing exploits, especially given his closeness to Andrew Marriott.  He was involved when racing in the UK and Europe was at its pinnacle in my view.



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Posted 22 September 2016 - 20:13

Of all the many, many pictures the Beeb could have chosen to illustrate the Apple / McLaren scenario in their Business section on their website today (22/09/2016) they chose a somewhat obscure illustration of Joe Bonnier in an M5A carrying no. 23!  No doubt someone will identify the race and year and report back. However, I am not complaining just surprised, so much better a picture from that era than that of a latter day machine.

 

Mind you, it does not surprise me - a few weeks ago the BBC News had a feature on the 100th anniversary of motor gun boats, torpedo boats and similar craft which first saw service in the first world war. One craft was shown launching a torpedo - unfortunately the ship shown at the receiving end of the attack by the Royal Navy craft was HMS Barham as she blew up whilst still underway having keeled over in the Mediterranean in 1941 after being torpedoed by U331.

 

863 RN personnel lost their lives on that ship that day. A truly insensitive blunder by someone in production.


Edited by retriever, 22 September 2016 - 20:29.


#23 Vitesse2

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Posted 22 September 2016 - 20:23

I guess the Bonnier one was the cheapest they could get from Getty!

 

The Barham one was an awful clanger - they had a lot of emails about it and even apologised on Newswatch!



#24 retriever

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Posted 22 September 2016 - 20:43

I was truly aghast when I saw the feature - so glad that many responded by complaining.



#25 john winfield

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Posted 23 September 2016 - 08:17

Of all the many, many pictures the Beeb could have chosen to illustrate the Apple / McLaren scenario in their Business section on their website today (22/09/2016) they chose a somewhat obscure illustration of Joe Bonnier in an M5A carrying no. 23!  No doubt someone will identify the race and year and report back. However, I am not complaining just surprised, so much better a picture from that era than that of a latter day machine.

 

 

Yes, it was a bit of a surprise wasn't it? Bruce or Denny perhaps, but I didn't expect Jo Bonnier!  Vitesse is probably right, perhaps it was one of Getty's cheaper offerings, although it does remind me of the Motor Sport squabble some years back when the then editor (Andrew Frankel?) insisted on illustrating a major Brabham feature with a front cover shot of Hector Rebaque! An earlier editor (Matt ??) wrote to complain. I might have the details wrong, but I agreed with the complaint. Choosing a picture of Rebaque in his BT49 seemed bizarre, almost disrespectful.



#26 Tim Murray

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Posted 23 September 2016 - 18:00

No doubt someone will identify the race and year and report back.

British GP 1968:

http://www.gettyimag...ture-id52797490

#27 john winfield

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Posted 23 September 2016 - 18:15

Well found Tim.

I hope that the Beeb continue the trend and illustrate big Lotus stories with Pete Lovely in the 49, and Ferrari retrospectives with Giancarlo Martini in the 312T.  :drunk:



#28 Glengavel

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Posted 23 September 2016 - 20:11

Yes, it was a bit of a surprise wasn't it? Bruce or Denny perhaps, but I didn't expect Jo Bonnier! 

 

Sadly, I think that nowadays Bruce and Denny aren't any better known than Jo Bonnier anyway.



#29 john winfield

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Posted 23 September 2016 - 21:14

Sadly, I think that nowadays Bruce and Denny aren't any better known than Jo Bonnier anyway.

You're right. If only they'd all had the chance to appear on Strictly. Or Bake Off.