Time Capsule
We call this series “Time Capsule”.
Enjoy a look at then and now.
(Hold down your mouse button and drag left or right over the photos below)
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Gigi’ Villoresi testing the works’ prototype Lancia D50 F1 car at the Ospedaletti road circuit near San Remo, Italy. He’s approaching the hairpin along the Strada Statale 1 or Corso Regina Margherita, in October 1954.
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A private Lancia test session (imagine one company getting a town police authority to close its public roads for private testing) shows Eugenio Castellotti locking the Lancia D50 hard-left around the hairpin, off the SS1 Corso Regina Margherita onto the Via Camillo Benso Conte de Cavour (yes honestly!).
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Rouen-les-Essarts in France, home to the French GP 1957, 1962, 1964 and F2 races in other years – this is Nouveau Monde Hairpin down at the bottom of the swerve out-stretch downhill past the pits…
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Naples GP 1950
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Naples GP 1950
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Moss’s HWM accident scene – he lost his front teeth when he hit the tree…
Amazing that, as late as 1962, they were racing ‘Sharknose’ Ferrari F1 cars round here
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Pau GP Formula Junior race in 1959
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Pau GP Formula Junior race in 1959
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Targa Florio
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Targa Florio
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Targa Florio
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Targa Florio – Waiting pre-start in the roadway leading up to the Floriopoli startling/pits area below the town of Cerda
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Targa Florio – The GT40 roadster in 1965 was parked just against the little left-side pull-off track in the Street View shot.
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1953 Coppa d’Oro delle Dolomiti (The Dolomites Gold Cup road race). Outside the Hotel Venezia on the entry to Cortina d’Ampezzo from the north
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1950 Lago di Garda Formula 2 road race, using the Salo mixed-street and rural road circuit, which like the Coppa d’Oro course lay in northern Italy.
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1951 Genoa GP on the Superba circuit