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[Jon Saltinstall]

Can anyone help please with identifying this chap? His image is cropped from a larger photo (thanks, Nils!) taken at the 1975 Italian GP - ostensibly inside the March team caravan - which includes Lella Lombardi and a partially obscured Gughi Zanon. 

 

Any and all suggestions / clarifications are much appreciated!

 

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Kevin Spacy

[marksixman]

Guy Ligier ?

[Michael Ferner]

Kevin Spacy

 

 

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[Collombin]

Guy Ligier ?

For the sake of his big new sponsor I hope not.

[Jon Saltinstall]

Can’t imagine why Ligier would be in the March caravan with Lella and Gughi, even if he had attended the 1975 Italian GP…..

Edited by Jon Saltinstall, 09 March 2024 - 18:48.

[LittleChris]

My first thought was Tino Brambilla and of course Vittorio was driving for March plus the two brothers were quite friendly with Lella I believe

 

R.I.P Ernesto "Tino" Brambilla | Formula 1 Amino (aminoapps.com)

[Jon Saltinstall]

My first thought was Tino Brambilla and of course Vittorio was driving for March plus the two brothers were quite friendly with Lella I believe

 

R.I.P Ernesto "Tino" Brambilla | Formula 1 Amino (aminoapps.com)

 

That's a good shout, Chris; Tino was a bit thinner in the face in his racing days but he certainly had that hairline and could well have added a few pounds post-retirement (which happens to us all, it seems  )

 

And you're correct that Lella and Vittorio were certainly very good friends, so I assume she was close to Tino too.

 

Anyone out there got a good photo of Tino in the mid-70s?

[marksixman]

For the sake of his big new sponsor I hope not.

OK. But it did happen once or twice !

 

[Jon Saltinstall]

OK. But it did happen once or twice !

 

 

James was also known to fill empty packs of Marlboro "reds" with his preferred Rothmans, certainly...

[Jon Saltinstall]

I reckon our man might be the fellow standing on the far left in this Ercole Colombo shot taken at Anderstorp in 1975. Can anyone identify him from this image? (Come to think of it, can anyone help with the rest of the March crew - Lella and Vittorio aside - as it's rather an interesting photo to use if the publishers agree!)

 

Edited by Jon Saltinstall, 11 March 2024 - 10:45.