Rainer W Schlegelmilch has seen everything in racing and photographed it. Here's a taste of his new book
New images from the latest book by renowned photographer Rainer W Schlegelmich give a fresh look into Ferrari's endurance racing from 1962-73 where it battled with Ford at Le Mans
Award-winning German photographer Rainer W Schlegelmilch, aka ‘RWS’, is a legendary name in motor racing circles, here with zoom lens trained on the field at the French Grand Prix at Rouen in 1968 – won by Ferrari’s Ickx
Ickx leads the 1972 Monza 1000Kms in difficult conditions driving a Ferrari 312 PB – and would go on to win the race alongside Clay Regazzoni. Dominant Ferrari would be the makes’ champion by the end of the season
Ferrari mechanics get 40 winks in the garage at the 1967 Le Mans 24 Hours. The result was a 2-3 for Ferrari behind the Ford GT40 of Dan Gurney and AJ Foyt. The Italians would have a long wait for another win at La Sarthe – almost 60 years
By the 1963 Le Mans 24 Hours, Schlegelmilch had been a photographer at motor racing events for a year. This is the driver sprint at the start of the ’63 race. The Ferrari 250 P, left, driven by Ludovico Scarfiotti and Lorenzo Bandini, would win
The No1 Ferrari 312 PB of Ickx at Spa’s Eau Rouge. Raced from 1971-73, this car’s competitive record was superb – 72 entries, 33 races and 15 wins. At the end of 1973, Ferrari dropped out of sports car racing to fully focus on its Formula 1 endeavours
The Ford GT40 of Gurney and Foyt leads Scarfiotti and Mike Parkes’ Ferrari 330 P4, with its 4-litre V12 engine, at the 1967 Le Mans 24 Hours – the race at which Gurney started the tradition of spraying champagne after a victory
Scarfiotti, left, and Bandini, right, Ferrari’s 1963 Le Mans 24 Hours winners in a 250 P – joined by Richie Ginther, BRM partner to Graham Hill, in an early example of photobombing. Ginther had been driving the gas-turbine Rover-BRM
Porsches accounted for seven of the top 10 finishers at the 1970 Nürburgring 1000Kms – with the Ferrari 512 S of Parkes and Herbert Müller just missing out on a podium position. Müller died in the same race 11 years later driving a Porsche 908
A Ferrari 512 S receives attention at the 1970 Le Mans 24 Hours while the North American Racing Team 512 S of Sam Posey and Ronnie Bucknum departs the pits – en route to a fourth position behind a Porsche podium lockout
Seven of the top 10 finishers at the Nürburgring 1000Kms in 1963 were Ferraris, and the top three were Enzo’s cars – but this battered 250 GTO, No48, driven by Kalman von Csazy and Karl Foitek, wasn’t among the frontrunners
Pedro Rodríguez is looking focused in the NART Ferrari 365 P2 Spyder at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1965 – a famous date for the marque with an all-Ferrari podium. Rodríguez and Nino Vaccarella would end the race in seventh
