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James Gribbon captures the stars of Lime Rock’s Vintage Festival, including a 1939 Mercedes Grand Prix Car on track for the first time since the 1930s.
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There is something magical about vintage racing, one should experience at least once.
I always wished of meeting Fangio. The first question I’d ask, where did you get the balls?
Maybe I’m trapped in time, but I still find the Lancia Stratos very modern.
All beautiful! But, my heart stopped momentarily @ the Stratos too!
What an absolutely beautiful brute she was! My 9-year old daughter has a matchbox Stratos. She says it’s her favourite car. Good taste she has already. ;-} Can’t wait to show her this gallery!
Thanks for sharing James.
Balls indeed CyCar! Check out the side-saddle fuel tanks on that ’55 Lancia F1 car… talk about balls.
Many timeless designs in this galley, Stratos especially.
–chuck
The Stratos is not only beautiful, it’s presence is so out of this world.
There’s a company in England, making pretty accurate kit car replicas.
If that doesn’t float your boat, you should pretty well pack it in.
I’m kicking myself for not stopping over there during lunch to see the Silver Arrow. Work always seems to get in the way like that.
and that GP car…was it one of the ones with a desmodromic valve train?
Vintage racing at Limerock is one of my favorite weekends of the year. My photos from this year’s event: Limerock
Thanks for the photos; I haven’t gotten mine out of the camera yet. Sigh.
To everyone: the Vintage event at Lime Rock is an event not to be missed. If you can get there, do it! You will not regret the effort…it’s a grand weekend.
— The Stratos, parked in the paddock, had a hand-written “For Sale” notice on the dash. No price listed as I recall.
RobD…your collection has one of the very few pics of the Alfa flip at T2. It was a serious and very scary moment. I knew we were in trouble when I saw one door come off after the first roll, followed by the windshield after the first bounce.
There were at least two more rotations.
I was the first flagger to the car; in the pic, you can just see my leg at the left side of the car. After making sure the driver (who got out on his own) was breathing, alert and coherent (he was), I went for the Emerg Off switch on the other side of the car. Medical was there in an instant and then took charge.
Without going into detail, the driver was transported to hospital for observation; he was found to have an assortment of moderate injuries, all of which are expected to heal. But the driver will be “out of service” for a while as he recovers.
The car appears to be tin-foil but the full roll cage held up VERY well. There was not a straight panel on the car when it was righted and loaded on the flatbed.
The Alfa flip was the scariest accident I’ve ever seen at Limerock. I’ve never seen a car roll there. Strangely I had just arrived and was sitting reading the festival magazine, when for some reason I looked up and saw the car in the air, spinning. I’m not sure why I looked up, I don’t remember hearing anything. I grabbed my 80-200 lens and took a few quick shots.The great crew at Limerock reacted very fast. It’s good to hear the driver will be ok.
BTW, the driver kneeling at the other side of the car from JT is not the Alfa driver but was in another car and had stopped, jumped out, and ran over to help.
Another “Yay!” on the Stratos.
The one time I stood next to one I was impressed with how tiny it is.
Lust object.
Bunter
I was ther for the drive of the Mercedes. It sounded awesome when it being revved up in the pits. Then to see it do a couple of laps in first gear was kind of a let down.
Beautiful, reminds of the Maserati 250F that was at Road America this past summer
Just for the record, in my photo the driver kneeling next to the flipped Alfa is the Alfa driver, not the Morgan driver that came to help.
I was wrong in my earlier post. JT looked at my photos and described better what happened.