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[Paul Taylor]

Could someone possibly post this, PM it, or email it to me please? Thanks

[RTH]

As I remember this race was televised and there was a photo in Autosport /Motoring News with Ronnie very crossed up in a flurry of snow flakes.
Make a nice Christmas Card ?

[Andrew Kitson]

Good idea Richard...log that idea for next year!

[Twin Window]

Originally posted by RTH

As I remember this race was televised and there was a photo in Autosport /Motoring News with Ronnie very crossed up in a flurry of snow flakes.

It was of him spinning onto the grass at Becketts. A pic of the incident is on the front cover of The Forgotten Races, with another inside...

[CNE]

Make a nice Christmas Card ?

Funnily enough I did suggest that to LAT (they own the copyright) a couple of years back...

[Paul Taylor]

Is it a colour picture?

[Hieronymus]

The photo in question was published in MOTOR SPORT some months (years??) back. I do have the particular copy at home, but I do not think it is worth scanning, since it was spread over two pages...I do not think this is what you really want??!! Photo was in colour.

[CNE]

Originally posted by Paul Taylor
Is it a colour picture?

Paul,

No. Black & white.

Chris

[Paul Taylor]

I found a picture of him spinning off (black and white) on page 82 of MotorSport, Aug. 2003, but I'm sure the one I saw was of him on the track, in colour?

[bigears]

This is the exact image that Paul was referring to:

[Twin Window]

...and is also the one on the book cover I mentioned.

[petefenelon]

Originally posted by Twin Window
...and is also the one on the book cover I mentioned.

Has Chris Ellard finished 'Long Forgotten Races' (non-championship F1 races between '54-'65) yet? -- wasn't it due in '05?

[CNE]

Originally posted by petefenelon


Has Chris Ellard finished 'Long Forgotten Races' (non-championship F1 races between '54-'65) yet? -- wasn't it due in '05?

I haven't. Next year for definite.

OT, avid fan of your book reviews, Pete.

Chris

[RTH]

Originally posted by bigears
This is the exact image that Paul was referring to:

That's the one I remember, can't be too many pictures of racing in the snow........................or so I thought !

[Paul Taylor]

So, there aren't any colour ones then?

[petefenelon]

Originally posted by CNE

I haven't. Next year for definite.

OT, avid fan of your book reviews, Pete.

Chris

Excellent news, thanks for the update Chris - I'm looking forward to it.

[Arjan de Roos]

Originally posted by CNE


OT, avid fan of your book reviews, Pete.

OT, avid fan of your books, Chris.

[CNE]

Ohh, thanks chaps .

So, there aren't any colour ones then?'

I've only ever seen three pictures of Ronnie in that Becketts snowstorm.

The two that Twinny very kindly mentioned were definitely black & white - I've seen the transaparancies. A colour one did, however, appear more recently in MS (as Hieronymus says). If I remember rightly it was attributed to Jerry Booen.

I also have a feeling it was re-produced in the Johnny Tipler book Super Swede


Chris

[Bill Becketts]

Michael Oliver's lovely "LOTUS 72 Formula One Icon" has a colour picture on the back of the dustcover.

It shows Ronnie, lighting up the rear tyres as he gets back on track.....

Lovely book Michael....One of my better purchaces

[P 4 Staff]

I found another one among my R. P. pics...no clue where I found it.

[1969BOAC500]

Michael Oliver's lovely "LOTUS 72 Formula One Icon" has a colour picture on the back of the dustcover.

It shows Ronnie, lighting up the rear tyres as he gets back on track.....

 

Here i go, dredging up another ancient thread.... ....i treasure the memory of seeing Ronnie in the snow at the  '73 International Trophy and reading the above made me determined to track down a copy of this book......

 

...which I did this week at very reasonable cost via e-bay ( and it turned out to be the slip-cased, signed and numbered edition, too ). What a treat ! It's sure to give me many hours of pleasure, and I've already spent a lot of time just gazing at that wonderful image on the back cover. Great stuff !

[Izzyeviel]

Is this the one? 

 

[1969BOAC500]

Almost.....the full colour pic was taken moments later as Peterson recovered from the spin. It's good to have because people always think I'm kidding when I tell them that I've watched F1 in the snow !

[funformula]

Is this the full colour picture?

https://i.redd.it/zvykm463no801.jpg

[1969BOAC500]

Yes - that's the one ! 

[dolomite]

According to BBC Genome it was televised as follows: BBC 1 Sunday 8th April 1973 16:50 International Motor Racing The GKN Daily Express Silver Jubilee Trophy Meeting introduced direct from Silverstone by Barrie Gill Race commentator MURRAY WALKER Twenty-five years ago Alberto Ascari won the first International Trophy meeting at Silverstone in a Ferrari. Who will win the Silverstone Jubilee race this afternoon? The Brazilian world champion EMERSON FITTIPALDI heads the Formula One entry with his Lotus team-mate RONNIE PETERSON from Sweden. Their chief rivals will be JACKIE STEWART in his Tyrrell Ford and MIKE HAILWOOD 'S Surtees which holds the Silverstone lap record at 133.72 mph. Today's race at Silverstone will give spectators and viewers a chance to see the top speed of the 1973 Grand Prix cars on Britain's fastest circuit. Director PETER CLEAVER Producer RICHARD TILLING Editor BRIAN ROBINS