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[LittleChris]

Glad people enjoyed the film. What particularly struck me was how smiley/cheerful Menotti Varzi was compared to his son. But then I've not seen any photos of Achille in a similar social situation.

[Doug Nye]

There is the story that son Achille had a form of facial paralysis - allegedly caused by an early injury - which would explain his normally poker-faced expression. A minority of photos, however, do show him smiling - to some degree.

 

DCN

[Pullman99]

The National Motor Museum has just uploaded this film - shot on Super 8 - that I took on the 21st and 22nd August 1970.  

 

https://www.youtube....h?v=3JLP6ma943I

 

Not much to add to the Gold Cup videos already available, but a few nice sequences that are hopefully of interest

[Bikr7549]

Gilles wins the Atlantic race at Gimli in 1975, in the pouring rain. The video says that it is 15 minutes long but is really only 4-still a fun clip in really monsoon conditions.

 

[john aston]

Splendid- now those are what I call puddles 

[opplock]

The sort of day on which the great drivers stood out. Wouldn't be allowed now of course.

[Rupertlt1]

Correction - the first 9 minutes is Silverstone, the remainder is of a trials event in the Chiltern hills. 

For Chilterns Trial see:

https://forums.autos...2#entry10815642

RGDS RLT

[LittleChris]

Another  cracking little film found by Ourafilmes.  Worth it alone for the 1 second footage at 2.20 of Fangio drifting through Six Freres something captured in so many photos ( taken there and the first corner ) of the 1957 race 

 

Fangio - The Best driver of the World - 1964 Interview/Documentary (English subtitles)

 

Edit : Or is he drifting ?

Edited by LittleChris, 25 January 2025 - 19:52.

[LittleChris]

More from Ourafilmes.

 

Lucky escapes for Allison, de Filippis  and whoever lost it at the first corner of the F Junior race

 

 

1958 F1 Portuguese GP (VERY RARE FOOTAGE) - Video Report

[Doug Nye]

What wonderfully nostalgic footage!  I'm very impressed.  I had never appreciated just how violent Cliff Allison's crash had been in the Lotus 16 during practice, nor that he had snapped a concrete lamp standard along the way.  What a lucky boy that day...  In the stills showing Maria Theresa de Filippis after her 250F incident - at 1:41 - it appears to be Colonel Ronnie Hoare of subsequent Maranello Concessionaires fame on hand, to the left in regulation blazer and tie. "May I assist you, my dear...".

 

DCN

[tonicco]

Right at the start, that moment with Hawthorn messing with Jenks beard...

[FLB]

What wonderfully nostalgic footage!  I'm very impressed.  I had never appreciated just how violent Cliff Allison's crash had been in the Lotus 16 during practice, nor that he had snapped a concrete lamp standard along the way.  What a lucky boy that day...  

DCN

The thought that occurs to me is that concussion wasn't something that was really discussed/understood at the time. So could he already have been fragile before Monaco 1960, as a legacy of this accident in Portugal?

[Sterzo]

It's noticeable how the usual racing line didn't go right to the road's outside edge on entry or exit. I wonder if this is because of camber, gutters and drains.

[Claudio Navonne]

Suecia 1955: 

[Doug Nye]

That Rabelovsbana footage is just superb.  One can almost see the thinks balloon above Moss's head - "OK Maestro - shake me off then...".

 

Wonderful also to see the subsequently rarely-mentioned 'yump' on that Swedish course over which even the hefty Mercs flew bodily, tyre treads clear of the road.

 

Thanks so much for posting it.

 

DCN

Edited by Doug Nye, 06 February 2025 - 14:06.

[marksixman]

That Rabelovsbana footage is just superb.  One can almost see the thinks balloon above Moss's head - "OK Maestro - shake me off then...".

As you say Doug, just superb.

 

Interesting that Moss was using the 'air brake' on a regular basis, whereas Fangio never did. Wonder if that was by choice, or if there was a problem ?

[LittleChris]

Didn't Paul Frere have a problem with the hump whilst practicing at the same meeting but for a different race ?

[Belmondo]

Great footage. Was the air brake operated by the same pedal as the brakes, or a separate mechanism?

[RacingCompagniet]

As you say Doug, just superb.

 

Interesting that Moss was using the 'air brake' on a regular basis, whereas Fangio never did. Wonder if that was by choice, or if there was a problem ?

 Being so close behind Fangio, probably meant that he, beacuse of the slip stream, needed it to slow down at the same pace as Fangio, who had the whole air resistance acting on his car.

[Odseybod]

I seem to remember in 'Mon Ami Mate', Moss discovered that at Le Mans (and so presumably also elsewhere), the air brake was giving him extra grip in corners (or downforce, as we might say nowadays). 

[Sterzo]

Perhaps a little less spectacular than film of Mercedes 300SLRs, here are A.J. Foyt and - wait for it - Ray Harroun on a TV quiz show.

 

[Bloggsworth]

This one took me by surprise, Danica Patrick in conversation with Professor Brian Cox

 

https://youtu.be/cdAgK31r02E

Edited by Bloggsworth, 16 February 2025 - 21:14.

[2F-001]

This one took me by surprise, Danica Patrick in conversation with Professor Brian Cox

 

 

Maybe not so much of a surprise as the episode in which she discusses shape-shifting lizard-people...

[marksixman]

Perhaps a little less spectacular than film of Mercedes 300SLRs, here are A.J. Foyt and - wait for it - Ray Harroun on a TV quiz show.

 

Great find Sterzo !

 

It has prompted me to post a question on the "Motorsport Quiz" thread (#9013).

Edited by marksixman, 17 February 2025 - 16:41.

[Catalina Park]

The last landing at Wigram...

[jtremlett]

Bill Mason's film of Hermann Lang lapping the 'Ring from the Shell Archive.

 

Round the Ring: Graham Hill's Nurburgring Tour | Shell Historical Film Archive - YouTube

 

Edited by jtremlett, 01 March 2025 - 22:27.

[opplock]

Thanks for posting that. I first saw it at primary school about 60 years ago. No idea why it was shown to a class of about 40 kids in a country obsessed with rugby but two of us never forgot it.  

[FLB]

This has probably been posted before, but still...   

 

[Sterzo]

Thanks for posting that. I first saw it at primary school about 60 years ago. No idea why it was shown to a class of about 40 kids in a country obsessed with rugby but two of us never forgot it.  

 

You youngsters... I was in the sixth form 60 years ago, and a friend organised the showing of this and all the Bill Mason-assembled films after school. The lab assistant worked the projector for us, displaying even more enthusiasm than we did. He was German, an ex p.o.w., and had watched racing (presumably at the Ring) in the thirties.

[LittleChris]

1975 Austrian GP

 

1975 Austrian GP (no commentary) - Funky 70s F1 Race!

 

This is the first time I've seen what is virtually the whole of the shortened race and whilst it's most famous for Vittorio's little bump after the flag, I didn't realise just how beautifully he drove in the increasingly atrocious conditions to catch and thoroughly beat Hunt and Lauda ( noticeable how having finally passed Lauda and with Brambilla right on his tail , Hunt immediately signalled for the race to be stopped - don't think Max was having any of that   ) . Scary moment when the two came up the hill to Hella Licht in virtual zero visibility to find a VW course vehicle in front of them. 

[Graham Clayton]

Report on the 1999 Singapore Rally, held in the Kallang Car Park:

[Bikr7549]

Maybe you have seen this before, but if not take a look! This details an amazing effort, building a new Matra MS84 4WD F1 car. It seems only parts of the original driveline still existed and virtually everything else had to be built from scratch. Just wonderful to see! I was in Romorantin only a few years before this project was completed, it would be wonderful to see, even more so under power.

 

Bob

 

Edited by Bikr7549, 25 March 2025 - 02:13.