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Post by Carl on Nov 9, 2017 19:02:55 GMT
I think it would be cool for members to describe the photograph they've chosen for their posts. Some I recognize, as Ray Davies sang about Hollywood Boulevard, and some I've hardly even heard of.
Mine shows David Hobbs in the 1973 Watkins Glen Can-Am about to enter Turn 2 and the very fast esses. His beautiful McLaren M20 finished 2nd to Mark Donahue's 917-30, the ultimate example of the "Unfair Advantage" always sought by Roger Penske.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2017 19:06:34 GMT
Let's see, Carl: who is mine?
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Post by Carl on Nov 9, 2017 19:09:21 GMT
I am guessing George Follmer
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2017 19:10:40 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2017 19:16:41 GMT
It's a picture I have always liked, his eyes are intense, inquisitive and show the concentration before going out on track.
I don't know George at all, yet this photo tells a lot about him without saying a word.
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Post by Carl on Nov 9, 2017 21:28:29 GMT
Follmer was an outstanding talent without adequate financial resources until his accomplishments notwithstanding were recognized by Roger (speak of the devil) Penske, who brought him in as teammate to Mark Donohue in Group 7 Lola T70s, after which he was able to shine.
Your description of him is remarkably perceptive.
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Post by charleselan on Nov 10, 2017 10:36:09 GMT
Great mutual respect for a superb driver, wonderful avatar.
Mine is easy isn't it?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2017 12:32:26 GMT
That is Ronnie when he was in karting, I think. By his looks and the helmet's design (yellow longitudinal stripe).
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Post by chrisb on Nov 10, 2017 15:46:48 GMT
mine is the Lotus 25/33 and in keeping with Jimmy's races I am showing all the back-end
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Post by Carl on Nov 10, 2017 16:58:26 GMT
Well said, Chris!  |
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Post by Carl on Nov 10, 2017 17:06:05 GMT
Great mutual respect for a superb driver, wonderful avatar.
Mine is easy isn't it? Easy because so wonderful |
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Post by René on Nov 10, 2017 17:07:04 GMT
Mine was too easy so I changed it. Anyone any idea? Who is easy but what car and where and when?
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Post by mikael on Nov 11, 2017 4:55:46 GMT
Mine has been discussed earlier so I will just restate that it's a movie scene; it's "Pete Aron" (James Garner) driving the brand-new "Yamura" at Spa, in "Grand Prix" of Frankenheimer (1966).
This is a movie I adore. The photography is fantastic; the way it, as Carl so nicely put it, "presents Grand Prix cars as poetry in motion". It has clearly also been an inspiration for other film makers; many scenes, such as the opening, in the Ford film "Nine Days in Summer" (1967/68), for example, are as taken directly out of "Grand Prix".
I love the closing scene (of "Grand Prix"), where "Pete Aron" is standing by the start line of a deserted Monza track, dreaming, thinking back, imaging the sound of the roaring engines. Maybe because I feel it's something I have "seen before", on a *much* more humble level, of course. How many times have I not, as a teenager, been standing on an empty motocross track like that, on an early summer morning, dreaming ...
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Post by chrisb on Nov 11, 2017 8:05:13 GMT
Rene, is it the Ferrari Indycar?
Mikael, that scene seems as you say suggested quite a lot of 9 days in summer filmography - namely Jimmy standing reflecting at was it Watkins Glen, kicking a stone and roaring off in the big American V8,
also there is something very poignant about standing on a quiet empty racing circuit, I did this at Goodwood before it's rebirth and it was deserted and untidy, but almost eerie in its silence, a memory that has never left me
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Post by René on Nov 11, 2017 10:38:25 GMT
Rene, is it the Ferrari Indycar? Nope. It is Gilles in the car and the Indycar was later (86/87). It is easier as you think. |
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