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A Winning Ferrari

Here is a very special new Ferrari having been prepared for its first race, the Mille Miglia on May 4, 1952. It is now the day before the start at the scrutineering in the Piazza Vittoria in Brescia. This one-of-a-kind Ferrari is a 250 Sport which has a new 3 liter V12 and will score an outstanding win in its first appearance after a long battle with a works Mercedes 300SL. The two Ferrari…

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#Alberta Ascari #auto racing photographs #Carrera Panamericana #Giovanni Bracco #klemcoll #Le Mans #Luigi Villoresi #Mille Miglia #motorsports #sports car photographs

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A Flying Porsche

On the back of the Nordschleife at the Nürburgring is a famous jump where truly powerful and fast cars can really take off. Here is one such, a Porsche 908 during the 1000km. race on May 19, 1968. This 908 wa being driven by Jo Siffert and Vic Elford. They would be victorious in this famous race, winning over another works-entered Porsche, a 907 with a 2.2 liter motor, by just over three minutes.…

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#auto racing photographs #grand prix photographs #Jo Siffert #Porsche #Porsche 908 #sports car photographs #Vic Elford

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Hopping to Victory

Here is Nelson Piquet having a bit if a light moment in downtown Long Beach during the United States Grand Prix West on March 30, 1980 with his Brabham BT49. This race was an opportunity for the normally-aspirated Ford-Cosworth-powered Brabhams to make up ground on the turbo Renault RE20 with which René Arnoux had won the previous two races in Brazil and South Africa. In practice Piquet was ahead…

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#Alfa Romeo #Clay Regazzoni #klemcoll #Nelson Piquet #Renault #René Arnoux #USGPW

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The Other Driver

Here is Lord Selsdon (actually Patrick Peter McEacharn Mitchell-Thomson, the second Baron Selsdon) in his Ferrari 166 MM after winning the Le Mans 24 Hours on June 26, 1949. Selsdon had driven numerous times at Brooklands in the prewar years and had also driven at Le Mans in 1938 and again in 1939, finishing fourth overall. As is well known, Lord Selsdon had an even more experienced Le Mans…

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#Ferrari #grand prix photographs #klemcoll #Le Mans #Lord Selsdon #Luigi Chinetti #motorsports #sports car photographs #Vincent Auriol

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The New Lancias at Monaco

Practice is about to start from the pits along the harbor front at Monte Carlo before the Monaco Grand Prix which will take place on May 22,1955. It will be quite a fierce contest with teams from Ferrari, Maserati, Lancia and Mercedes-Benz to take part, among others.  Above we see the Lancia D50 which will be driven by team leader Alberto Ascari. He and his close friend Luigi Villoresi had left…

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#Alberto Ascari #auto racing photographs #Eugenio Castellotti #grand prix photographs #klemcoll #Lancia D50 #Louis Chiron #Luigi Villoresi #Monaco Grand Prix

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The Champion's Last Race

This is Juan Manuel Fangio diving a lightweight Maserati 250F at the French Grand Prix on the public road circuit of Reims-Gueux on July 6, 1958. Fangio had earned the World Championship five times with four different manufacturers, most recently with Maserati in 1957. In this photograph he is accelerating out of the Thillois hairpin and onto the start/finish straight at Reims. He would only…

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#French Grand Prix #juan fangio #klemcoll #Reims-Gueux

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A Famous Maserati

This is a truly famous Maserati – the 8CM built for Whitney Straight, an American living in England. Here it is seen at a speed trials event at Luton Hoo in England on October 9, 1949 on a course of just about 1.5 miles. The course was over a private road on the Luton Hoo estate which is near Luton in Bedfordshire. Driving this Maserati here is the then current owner Kenneth McAlpine. This…

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#auto racing photographs #Grand Prix #Kenneth McAlpine #klemcoll #Luto Hoo #Maserati #Prince Bira #Whitney Straight

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Searching for Speed

In the years before aerodynamics were “discovered” for racing cars. streamlining was often thought as being the way to go for greater speed. Here are two examples as tried in practice at the French Grand Prix which would take place on July 1, 1956 at the Reims-Gueux circuit. Above is one such trial of a special nose and side sponsons between the front and rear wheels, copied no doubt from those…

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#Alfonso de Portago #Ferrari #juan fangio #klemcoll #Maserati #Peter Collins #Piero Taruffi #Reims-Gueux

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Paul Frère at Le Mans

The man standing in front of the Porsche 550 Coupé is the famous racing driver-cum-journalist Paul Frère who will drive this factory Porsche with Richard von Frankenberg, another racing journalist. The cars are all parked in front of the pits at Le Mans prior to the start of the 24 hour race on June 3, 1953. Frère and von Frankenberg will finish 15th overall and win the 1.5 liter sports…

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#klemcoll #Le Mans #Paul Frere #Porsche #Richard von Frankenberg #sports car photographs

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The Big Maserati

Here is the new experimental Maserati 450S berlinetta in the paddock at Le Mans for the 24 hour race to be held on June 22-23, 1957. The coupe had been built up by Zagato to designs of famous Vanwall engineer/aerodynamcist Frank Costin. The streamlined berlinetta idea, championed by Stirling Moss who would be one of its drivers, sought to make use of the Maserati 400+ hp 450S V8 motor in a low…

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#Frank Costin #Harry Schell #klemcoll #Le Mans #Maserati #sports car photographs #Stirling Moss #Zagato

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A Little Car for Stirling

Here is the already well-known driver Stirling Moss in the paddock at Goodwood after winning the 500cc Race on September 27, 1952. It is obviously a lovely late summer day at Goodwood. Moss won by just a couple of car lengths from Les Leston in his Leston Special also with Norton power. As was often his habit, especially at Goodwood, Moss drove three different cars in four races – in itself no…

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#Cooper-Norton #ERA G-Type #Goodwood #Jaguar C-Type #klemcoll #Stirling Moss

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The Ferrari Team

We are in the pits at the Monsanto Park Circuit near Lisbon, Portugal for the running of the Portuguese Grand Prix on August 23, 1959. On the left in the photo is Phil Hill with Cavaliere Luigi Bazzi in the mechanic’s overalls next to him, then Ferrari’s head engineer Carlo Chiti and driver Dan Gurney. Ferrari’s driver lineup in Portugal also included Tony Brooks who was right behind Jack…

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#Carlo Chiti #Cooper #Dan Gurney #Ferrari #klemcoll #Luigi Bazzi #Monsanto Park #Phil Hill #Stirling Moss #Tony Brooks

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The Last Mille Miglia

In keeping with the new film “Ferrari” now in theaters here is the winner to be of what will become  the last Mille Miglia on May 12, 1957. The driver is the “Silver Fox” Piero Taruffi. driving alone over roads with which he was deeply familiar, having already competed in this difficult race 13 times without a win. Taruffi’s car was a Ferrari 315/335 Sport. Although when sold by Ferrari at the…

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#Alfonso de Portago #Ferrari #grand prix photographs #klemcoll #Peter Collins #Piero Taruffi #sports car photographs #Wolfgang von Trips

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A Famous Pair of Brothers

In the earliest days of Ferrari the nascent company had several important customers whose purchase of Ferrari racing and sports cars ensured the company’s early survival. Two of these supporting customers were the brothers Gabriele (at the left) and Soave Besana. They are sitting on an upgraded Ferrari type 166 ex-works car, one of two such they had purchased, which could in those days be used…

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#Enzo Ferrari #Ferrari #Gabriele Besana #klemcoll #Soave Besana

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The Alfa 312

Color photographs of Grand Prix racing from the prewar years are very rare. The available film was delicate and very slow. The Agfa color film used for this photo had a film speed of ASA 8. This image was taken during practice for the Swiss Grand Prix on Bern’s Bremgarten Park circuit which took place on August 21, 1938. Driving the Alfa Romeo Type 312 is the talented French ace Jean-Pierre…

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#Alfa Corse #Alfa Romeo #bremgarten #Jean-Pierre Wimille #klemcoll #Nino Farina

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Chris Amon and March

Here we have Chris Amon in a superb photo during the Canadian Grand Prix on September 20, 1970 at Circuit Mont-Tremblant-St. Jovite (as it was then known), north of Montreal. “Le  Circuit” as it has been known locally is very demanding over its 2.65 mile lap with a considerable elevation change. Amon was driving a works March 701 with its ubiquitous Ford-Cosworth DFV power. The March was not…

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#Chris Amon #Clay Regazzoni #Ferrari #Jackie Ickx #klemcoll #March 701 #Mont-Tremblant

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Ferraris at Monza

Here we are at Monza on June 8, 1952 before the start of the Gran Premio dell’Autodromo di Monza. which was run for two liter racing cars under the Formula 2 regulations. The Ferrari team of 500F2s is lined up in the pits. The farthest away, n. 20, will be assigned to Giuseppe “Nino” Farina who had been the first World Champion in 1950 for Alfa Romeo. The car with n. 22 will be driven by World…

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#Alberto Ascari #André Simon #auto racing photographs #Ferrari #grand prix photographs #klemcoll #Monza #Non Farina #sports car photographs