Can we pick this location?

[Ray Bell]

Hi folks...

A picture of Richard Attwood in a V8 BRM has had a lot of experts guessing...

I think it might be Teratonga, but I've been wrong before. What do you folk think?

https://i.postimg.cc/mgn42JqT/0325attwood.jpg

[Psopho]

With Teretonga being an anti-clockwise track I can't think where that photo would have been taken unless the track was being run in reverse. Not sure if that was ever done?

[Oldfart]

I suspect from a little study, heavy braking for a left hand corner. The car is at the right hand edge, and flag marshal very close on the opposite side. Does the bank on the left give any clues?

[Psopho]

Possibly an illusion but it also looks to me like there's a downhill slope between the track and where the photo was taken.

[bry3500]

Looks a lot like Longford

[Oldfart]

My gut feeling is not Teretonga, I don't know of a bank as close as that to the track on the left hand side anywhere on the track. Like you Ray, could be wrong, frequently am. I agree with Psopho.

[Ray Bell]

Attwood didn't run in Australia in 1967, which it seems is the year of this pic...

I don't think it's at Wigram and I doubt that it's at Levin. It's a real mystery to me.

[Roger Dowding]

Attwood didn't run in Australia in 1967, which it seems is the year of this pic...

I don't think it's at Wigram and I doubt that it's at Levin. It's a real mystery to me.

Ray Bell,

Looking at the photo - image below - I had a look at the Shell Book for the 1967 Tasman Series.
Richard Attwood ran BRM #3 at Pukekohe and at Levin his number was #1.

At Teretonga he was #2. where he came 2nd behind Jim Clark in the Lotus..

Your image;

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The page from the Shell Book - photo Euan Sarginson at Teretonga.

Has the Results on the left above the photo;.

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Interestingly neither Levin nor Teretonga were part of the " Tasman Championship " on the points table
The " Tasman " events being - Pukekohe NZIGP, Wigram, - in NZ, then Lakeside, Warwick [ Farm ] Sandown and Longford, Tas.
The Shell book did not cover the Australian races in any detail as it did in the later Editions - 1968 onwards and they were subtitled " Tasman Series " from 1970 to 1972.

Cover of the Shell Book;

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The Start - on the grid. Hulme #3 Brabham on pole, Clark #6 Lotus, Attwood #2 BRM , Courage #1 BRM ; arch Allan Dick - photog not stated

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[Kwaussie]

The photo Ray Bell supplied looks to be similar to a few I have seen taken by the late Bill Pottinger at Teretonga.
They were in an area running dowm to the elbow corner which led on to the main straight. In saying that the foreground fits but thats all.
There are a number of threads on here showing Bill's work.