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25 Oct 2009, 10:34 (Ref:2569243) | #1 | ||
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Histsoric photo collection on Flickr
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Forgive me if this has already been linked, but Flickr has a recently posted, large collection of historic F1 and Sportscar pics by one 'JohnM47'. They include excellent trackside portraits of the cars in action, in-pit pics of them undressed and some intimate pics of the personalities of 60/70s motorsport at work. Well worth a look, IMHO. See: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cx500/ Anyone know who is JohnM47? John. (Another one) |
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Great find John - some fantastic pictures. To me this was the last era of the racing gods when drivers still wrestled with fundamentally basic machinery without any electronic aids and when an error cost a life. Not saying it was right or acceptable but to me these guys were the last of the heroes. Quite sobering to note the names and realise how many lost their lives in the name of sport.
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27 Oct 2009, 00:02 (Ref:2570412) | #3 | |
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Great find.
Not sure if this was mentioned before, but the sportscars here are well worth a look: http://www.flickr.com/photos/smuckatelli/ |
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Check out also http://www.flickr.com/groups/classic_motor_racing/ . This site has over 22,000 photos of mostly present day classic racing from around the world but also some historic photos such as this wonderful shot from 1955 Le Mans http://www.flickr.com/photos/2668851...c_motor_racing
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I was wondering the same thing when I was browsing through the album, so I sent a message to 'JohnM47' and got this reply back:
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