Epic 1970's pictures, well they're epic!!

Maxi Marra · 23 Oct 2009 at 21:24

Truly, Truly amazing photos. Thank you!

Housey · 23 Oct 2009 at 21:26

Some from my Gilles collection

Now this shot is at 180mph!!

I was 30 yards from this!!

2 F1 drivers together...

Engram · 23 Oct 2009 at 21:30

I didn't realise dragsters could go around corners!

james.miller · 23 Oct 2009 at 21:30

VaderDSL said:
What would Formula One be like if there was unlimited development but there was a pool of money that was distributed equally amongst the teams? Like say £250 million a season per team (10 teams say?)

I know it's a daft question but I often wonder what amazing things we would see, or would there end up being just 1 type of supercar that everyone ends up developing?

oh this was bought up a while ago. somebody posted a like to an interview with...somebody...giving their view on what F1 should eb like today, including a mockup car design. bah who was it lol

Housey · 23 Oct 2009 at 21:31

Mike Wilds, top bloke Mike who has some epic stories from back in the day

Jacky Ickx

wez130 · 23 Oct 2009 at 21:54

Who's that?

he looks uncannily like a younger me (the rider not the kid)

Housey · 23 Oct 2009 at 21:57

wez130 said:
Who's that?

he looks uncannily like a younger me (the rider not the kid)

A young Jacques with his dad Gilles Villeneuve and mum Joan.

Lopéz · 23 Oct 2009 at 21:57

Gilles + Jacques Villeneuve.

Berger · 23 Oct 2009 at 22:00

Awesome pictures, all of them!

PardonTheWait · 23 Oct 2009 at 22:04

wez130 said:
Who's that?

he looks uncannily like a younger me (the rider not the kid)

It looks like the mum's got tiny little legs

encephalopathy · 23 Oct 2009 at 22:05

his wife has really small feet!!

great pictures!

Housey · 23 Oct 2009 at 22:06

That will be Melanie then, Jacques sister.

PardonTheWait · 23 Oct 2009 at 22:08

I couldn't find this one the web but this is one of my favourite 70s motorsport pictures:

Cack quality but you get the gist. Love it

wez130 · 23 Oct 2009 at 22:08

i'm really shocked by that pic, i'll find a pic of me whn i was a bit younger and post it, but he's the closest look alike to me i've ever seen, i've even showed a friend and asked who she thinks it looks like and she said me lol

TaKeN · 23 Oct 2009 at 22:09

Simply awesome, why can't F1 cars look like this today

Housey · 23 Oct 2009 at 22:18

wez130 said:
i'm really shocked by that pic, i'll find a pic of me whn i was a bit younger and post it, but he's the closest look alike to me i've ever seen, i've even showed a friend and asked who she thinks it looks like and she said me lol

Some more of the Villeneuve clan.

Flibster · 23 Oct 2009 at 22:45

Housey said:
Jacky Ickx

Best F1 car in the history of the world ever!

6 years in F1
75 Races
20 Wins
3 Constructors Championships
2 Drivers Championships

Chassis R5 is the best of the best - only F1 car in history to need more than a page of A4 for it's race history. IIRC it took part in 5 years of F1.

JRS · 23 Oct 2009 at 22:54

Housey said:
Ahhhh, Ronnie!!

Good ol' SuperSwede....

I love this story from Pete Lyons back in the May '93 issue of AutoWeek:

It was the last minute of final qualifying. A black-and-gold, wedge-shaped Lotus 72 darted into sight. I picked out the helmet: blue-and-yellow, Ronnie Peterson.

His chassis was brand new, and had been giving him trouble throughout practice. This would be his final chance of a decent starting position. In obvious desperation, he came hurtling into the tight left-hander pressing every pedal at once. With the tail already out, he bounced his inside front wheel off the apex curb; that knocked the back end out even further, and the car wiped sideways across to the outside and slid both back wheels up on the sloping exit curbing - it was at that kind of angle.

But Ronnie's right foot was already pushing a dent in the bulkhead and he never lifted. With the poor Cosworth screaming at redline, both fat rear Goodyears broke loose and plumed off layers of blue smoke three inches deep. Then the long, black dart rebounded crazily headfirst to the middle of the track. It was still canted way sideways, front wheel cocked all the way over, rear wheels painting two jetblack streaks of molten rubber.

Years of railbirding told me that Ronnie Peterson had lost that car. Even if he managed, somehow, to catch the wild slide before it became a hopeless spin, at the very least there would be a series of unruly, time-wasting fishtails.

Nope. Not one. Exactly as the 72 reached the center of the road, it snapped precisely back into alignment with it - and stayed there. There was not so much as a hint of twitch the other way. Running straight and true, leaving nothing behind but noise, SuperSwede cannoned on toward the stopwatches.

For me, that moment before the first Grand Prix of 1973, the Argentine at Buenos Aires, set the tone and tint for the entire year. It was ... my first full Formula One season, the first when I'd been able to attend more than one or two of these events that, to me at that time in my life, crowned the majestic summit of motorsport. And here at the very first one my own wide eyes had witnessed the driver then reckoned to be F1's fastest literally lifting a resistant race car by sheer force of skill from the nowhere half of the pack to fifth on the grid, a scant half-second short of pole.

[In] that magic year ... the formula itself showcased its drivers. Grand Prix cars seemed to have stabilized at a level of unusual quality. In 1973 they were good racing instruments, powerful enough and difficult enough to drive to present a visible challenge, closely matched enough to create frequent close racing, generally reliable enough to allow that close racing to continue for most of a race distance and inexpensive enough to allow a great variety and number of teams to participate.

gord · 23 Oct 2009 at 23:10

A truly golden age..

Sparky · 23 Oct 2009 at 23:13

TaKeN said:
Simply awesome, why can't F1 cars look like this today

Would you like your Pug to look and perform like a 1972 model?