Get the picture

Every issue of Motor Sport is packed with incredible imagery – whether commissioned from our roster of brilliant photographers or those that have been ferreted out from the archives to shed new light on old stories. But in every issue I always have a favourite. In the November edition, for example, it was the image of Camille du Gast in Edwardian regalia inspecting her De Dietrich 30CV in 1903. In next month’s issue it is a frankly terrifying image captured by our own Jayson Fong on the beach…. You’ll have to wait and see.

In this issue it is the picture on page 71, part of our special run of articles celebrating Jim Clark and his seminal 1965 racing season. Six people in a row leaning against a Porsche 356 on a sunny day at Silverstone in 1958. On the left there is a woman looking across towards the bearded man on the right. Readers will recognise him as Denis Jenkinson. The woman is Patricia Burke, who at the time was DSJ’s girlfriend (she would become the first Mrs John Surtees). Between them are friends and fellow competitors of the 6 Hours Relay that day including Ian Scott Watson looking like he’s just stepped out of an Evelyn Waugh novel and the Hon Eddie Portman. Clark, relaxed and smiling in a neckerchief, must be in his early twenties. It is a photo full of the promise of great adventures to come. Bright young things with their lives and successes ahead of them, all captured in a single frame.

To the cinema and the premiere of Luca – Seeing Red, the documentary detailing the life one of F1’s most charismatic leaders, Luca Montezemolo. The film will be shown at Everyman cinemas in the UK on November 10 and 12.

“Inside there was Lawrence Stroll, Adrian Newey and Bernie Ecclestone”

As you might expect from co-director Manish Pandey it is a film rich in detail about Ferrari’s elegant talisman who rose to become F1 team principal and chairman of the company. Made with the full co-operation of Montezemolo himself it is more an authorised biography full of personal insight than warts-and-all history.

One thing is indisputable: Montezemolo’s star power. On the red carpet I spotted F1 boss Stefano Domenicali, McLaren team principal Andrea Stella and former Ferrari man Mattia Binotto. Inside there was Lawrence Stroll chatting with Adrian Newey before the crowds parted for Bernie Ecclestone. For those that remember him in his coiffured heyday, it was a relief to see that when it comes to pulling power Luca clearly still has it…

Joe Dunn, editor
Follow Joe on X @joedunn90

Next magazine: Our January issue is on sale from November 26