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Ray,
Is that my old "Trojan" workmate Patrick Head driving the white Jaguar # 60 ?
Plus thanks for all your wonderful photos and all the time you take to present them to us.
Very much appreciated.
Ken Hyndman.
The Jaguar E2A was part of the Jack Brabham celebration and only the car, not the driver is listed. Glad you like the pics! It's good to be able to share them, not just the recent ones such as Goodwood, but the stuff from the substantial personal archives.
Digital pics do make it so simple but the real time consumer is scanning slides in high definition. I can only manage a few per session - and I get bored quite quickly!
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Still my all time favourite British GT.
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Whoops, photographer shadow present...
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For the 2 wheel enthusiasts:
Much to the surprise of many, this 1930's Rudge was a race winner.
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None other than Troy Corser, who dropped this BMW in the rain on the Saturday, exiting the Chicane, where he hit the large puddle. This 500cc bike is owned by BMW and their factory mechanics were on hand to replace the damaged head overnight. Apparently, they were thrilled to bits with Troy's pace on this 1937 machine. The crowd were also impressed.
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Non car pics...
The view looking out from the pedestrian footbridge into what was referred to earlier as outside the circuit, but where a current ticket was still required. Big screen just in view to the top left of pic 1.
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A keen crowd, even under the brollies. The day before Goodwood, I bought two Dunlop brollies for six pounds - $12NZD...
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The 60's attired grid girls with the hand permanently on the left hip. Always a brave smile even though the weather on Saturday, wasn't too good. This was taken a matter of seconds before the rain started - the cars have just set off on their formation lap.
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Great photos ERC,thanks for sharing and putting in the time to put them on this site, .......one day.........one day..........i will get there !
Big bangers - hugely popular... It's a shame that generally, you only get to see the cars twice over the three day weekend. Bad weather on just one race day or one mechanical issue can totally ruin a driver's weekend - and the spectators'. You cannot therefore see all cars running on any one day.
I'm really enjoying these Ray, keep them coming.
Still a load more, though I don't think a full representation of the Austin A35s will be worth publishing! Glad you are enjoying them. Having downloaded a simple programme called 'Image Resizer', has made life so much easier as it can cope with resizing in bulk, as these posted images are all copies of the full sized image.
Back to the big bangers.
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The Lotus 30 was never a success in its day, but all three running at Goodwood seemed to be going well.
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This is a car I hadn't come across before, the Hamill-Chevrolet SR3. As I rather like the unusual and the rare, two pics.
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One of the main reasons I generally pick the first day of a race meeting - even if that is practice, is that getting a pic may not be possible after practice, if the car fails - which it obviously did with this Bizzarrini. Once again, one of my favourite cars of the event and worth another pic. I knew of the Bizzarrini GT but once again, didn't realise they'd ever done an open version.
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Yes, a fascinating car. I've always been interested in '60s sports and GT cars featuring American V8 power and British, Italian or French chassis. I have a book somewhere on Iso and Bizzarrini.
I believe this mid-engined spider was the only one of its kind. So it was sad to see it so badly damaged. How did the crash happen Ray? Was it car failure or over-driving?
Not sure what happened Steve, as the accident happened on the far side of the circuit. It happened just moments after this pic was taken, during Friday practice and I tend not to listen to the commentaries anyway. Sorry JT...
last of this set.
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I think the ex Hugh Dibley Lola competed at Hampton Downs.
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This Lotus 30 finished in a very creditable 3rd place and driver, Tiff Needell was absolutely ecstatic!
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That is a Monteverdi - although similar to the De Thomaso. Probably the first I have seen.
Totally agree about the Cooper Monaco and most cars of that era. Always a favourite of mine. The next group will be sports/sports racing cars 1952 - 1955. Who would have thought you'd get a full grid of 30 from a 3 year span of cars built over 60 years ago?
Just about all action pics taken from just one spot on the track. Moving anti-clockwise around the track, once you get to Madgwick, with such huge crowds, even on Friday, moving on means not being able to see the track at all for a while, so you tend to stay put.
After this group, it was the Formula Juniors (already published) when my battery died and to my horror, discovered I'd left the spare batteries in the car...
I totally missed all Sussex Trophy cars, both in practice and racing as practice wasn't until 6pm and also the very last race on Sunday at 5:25pm, by which time I'd gone. If ever I do it again, I'd probably just do Friday and probably stay to the bitter end, regardless of potential traffic delays on exit.
I would never have guessed that one, looks alot like a Longchamp, to me anyway, when you consider it was built and remodelled by Fissore after the initial design from Frua, and Fissore also built for De Tomaso...They could almost be brothers.
Agree! The members meeting was even on the Air NZ entertainment system last month. If you look back at old race programmes, the majority of races were for single seaters, sports cars or sports racing cars. In other words, semi exotic. In fact, racing saloons is a relatively new innovation. (Bearing in mind my age, relatively new...)
What do we get these days? Utes, more utes and taxis... Thank goodness Tony Quinn is bringing the GT's to NZ.
Yet another Healey for Roger... A rare 100S this time.
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Mercedes driven by Jochen Mass
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Thank you Ken , great british:cool:
motor racing photos ole chap
Er Grant, its Ray...
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Better view, just for Roger...
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One of the most energetically driven cars of the whole meeting! The HWM Cadillac. At 5400cc, probably predates the AC Cobra by a decade.
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Ray,
How could my scratchy old "Box Brownie" photos be confused with your beautiful, clear photography ?
I am going to step away and not get in the way anymore.
Cheers,
Ken H
As others have posted Ken, ALL photographs are valid, good or not so good!
Personally, even with my ancient stuff, I try to scan, crop, then display the subject as best I can, but this takes 10 times as long as just a quick scan and publish. At least with a modern digital camera, you have the luxury of taking 1,000's and then deleting what isn't up to scratch - for free. It only takes time.
When I think that Dad lugged a large plate camera to Donington pre war, with just 12 glass slides for the day, but most came out well, you accept how easy it is today. More UK pics to follow.
I haven't finished with the UK trip pictures, but as a quick break, just a sample from the TACCOC Spring meeting today at Hampton Downs. I wasn't there too long, but good to see three events going on at the same time. Drifting on the short track (with lots of noise and an incredible amount of smoke covering the area - including the National track...) the skid pan and the National track. Looks as though the kart track is almost ready, with just the office building/workshop and car park area to finish.
The RAC TT Celebration was possibly the feature event for the weekend. First practice was Friday; qualifying practice was on the wet Saturday and Sunday's race was a 1 hour, two driver affair. No excuses for posting more than one pic of some of the cars.
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CUT 7 is a famous Jaguar, but I'm not so keen on the non-period blue...
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The Sunbeam-Lister Tiger was another of my favourite cars of the weekend. Owned by Tony Eckford, but driven by Chris Beighton and Matt Neal. Always good to see so many 'star' drivers.
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This bronze E Type Jaguar, owned by Paul Webb, driven by Jackie Oliver and John Young, is the first ever E Type Jaguar I saw racing, at Mallory Park and one of the earliest. It was driven then by its first owner, Ken Baker and I think that somewhere, I have a (poor) photograph of it. I can still remember the day the E Type was announced and the first picture I saw, published in the Daily Mirror, and the reaction from my school mates and the general public.
It was genuinely mind blowing and to this day, is still one of the most beautiful cars ever made - though I preferred the FHC.
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I think there were more Jaguars competing than any other make, so no apologies for yet more Jaguar pictures. I did miss seeing the Mk2 Jaguars racing other saloons though. I do believe that just about all the E Types racing, sounded so smooth and well balanced.
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The Jo Bamford/Christian Horner 250GTO/64 Ferrari
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The last of this race group. Love the Lister Jaguar Coupe... Final picture sums up what this pair thought about their 3rd place.
The 89 Jaguar won, but there was a little touch with the #2 Cobra on the way through.
Outstanding images Ray! Thanks so much for posting.