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Driver heroes: Vic Elford
It seems somewhat bizarre that Vic Elford got started in motor sport never actually intending to be a driver. But, what started out from the navigator’s seat of a rally…
50 years on: Frankenheimer's Grand Prix movie
Loved by the Academy for its ground-breaking cinematography and sound, Grand Prix was also scarred by critics. However, with age the film has become an accurate reflection of the sport at the time
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TAKEN FROM MOTOR SPORT, AUGUST 2016
He was a big-picture man with visions of grandeur, willing to risk his hard-won credibility as a director and his studio’s money to create the greatest motor racing movie of all time.
John Frankenheimer was nothing if not ambitious. Conflicted and conflict-inspiring, the New York-born auteur went for broke, refusing to let technology’s inability to keep pace with his imagination stop him from creating his masterpiece. Half a century on from the release of Grand Prix, this celluloid classic is the most fondly remembered film from his bulging back catalogue; one that packed as many hits as misses.
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