Motor sport photo galleries

So many memories shared with this guy, this hilarious, eccentric, knowledgeable, clever, enthusiastic friend and colleague. He never did get a proper job, just went straight from university to writing…

October 15, 1997. Nevada, US Buzzard’s eye view of ThrustSSC covering one mile every four seconds on its way to the Land Speed Record at Black Rock Desert, 25 years…

Denny Hulme and Brian Hart hadn’t seen each other for years when they met on the quayside in Monaco in 1986. Hulme, in the cap, as a retired world champion,…

Chassis 72/5 Fittipaldi’s old faithful Emerson Fittipaldi crashed what would turn out to be his ‘old faithful’ on his first appearance in the car, in Friday practice at Monza 1970…

Belgian reader Edgar Regout began visiting the great Francorchamps circuit with his father and a small camera. These are memories of two special visits, to the 1964 sports car 500Kms…

October 26, 1969 California, US From front: Dan Gurney (McLaren M6B), Chuck Parsons (Lola T163B) and Jackie Oliver (Autocoast Ti 22) at Riverside in October in the penultimate race of…

These days, communications between F1 drivers and their pitcrews are detailed and convoluted to the point of being unintelligible to anyone else. Which is the point, of course. Before the…

Bob Sheppey had a friend working for TV-am at the 1988 Monaco GP who got him tickets, allowing him full access during practice. That was the year of Ayrton Senna’s…

April, 1963 East Africa Greetings from Maasai onlookers as the Ford Anglia of Peter Hughes – the son of a Ford distributor in Kenya – and Billy Young tackles the…

As you might imagine, compiling a top-30 list of motor racing’s pivotal happenings was a headache of formidable proportions. Through a whittling-down process that involved much scribbling in notepads, email…

Fate has a reputation for moving in mysterious ways, but can sometimes be unexpectedly productive. When watchmaker and motor sport aficionado Richard Mille visited the DPPI archive to seek bygone…

Not quite the BBC, perhaps, but this was typical of the Brazilian broadcasting art in 1987. Apart from his attire to cope with the searing heat at Jacarepaguá, the intrigue…

IT WAS HARD TO ENVISAGE A DAY WHEN Brands Hatch might ever be scratched from the Formula 1 schedule. In 1972 it was the Kent circuit’s turn to host the…

Kim McCullough sent us photos her father Ed McNeilly took on his regular trips to scenic Watkins Glen in New York state, long-time home of the US Grand Prix, and…

November 3,1991 Adelaide, Australia Blast from the past: the class of ‘91 line up for an end-of-season photo, top from left: Johnny Herbert, Mark Blundell, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell, Emanuele…