Gilles 27 wrote:i love trying to figure out where pictures of the Nurburgring are taken. The top one looks like Hatzenbach but not sure... Is that an abandoned Porsche 914 in the second pic?! From a support race maybe?
Well thats Jackie in a BRM P261 which makes the year 1965 or 1966 i'm pretty sure its '66
Gilles 27 wrote:i love trying to figure out where pictures of the Nurburgring are taken. The top one looks like Hatzenbach but not sure... Is that an abandoned Porsche 914 in the second pic?! From a support race maybe?
Well thats Jackie in a BRM P261 which makes the year 1965 or 1966 i'm pretty sure its '66
It is 1966 I believe. This one always crops up when you search for it too...
Jackie Stewart and Graham Hill - 1966 I always think it looks fake.
Ah nice one, googled that found the corners.
Two more legendary corners were Pflanzgarten and the aptly named Flugplatz - meaning airfield in German - where the cars would get airborne going over the hills.Source
And in the same race plenty of sparks from Patrese's Brabham too!
"And Mansell was lucky not to be taken off by that RIDICULOUS bit of driving by Alliot!!" - James Hunt "AAAAAND into the pitlane..... OHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!" - Murray Walker
Gilles 27 wrote:i love trying to figure out where pictures of the Nurburgring are taken. The top one looks like Hatzenbach but not sure... Is that an abandoned Porsche 914 in the second pic?! From a support race maybe?
Well thats Jackie in a BRM P261 which makes the year 1965 or 1966 i'm pretty sure its '66
It is 1966 I believe. This one always crops up when you search for it too...
Jackie Stewart and Graham Hill - 1966 I always think it looks fake.
Ah nice one, googled that found the corners.
Two more legendary corners were Pflanzgarten and the aptly named Flugplatz - meaning airfield in German - where the cars would get airborne going over the hills.Source
Yup right you are on the 914, the more I look at it the more it looks to me like a Healy or something.
I'm sure that Clark and Stewart one is photoshopped. It could be a still from the opening video to Grand Prix Legends...
I'm a bit of a Nordschleife geek so the shots of the cars airborne are actually just before flugplatz at a point called Quiddelbacher Hohe. Flugplatz was named so because the corner navigates a bank from which gliders had been traditionally launched
I agree about the Hill-Stewart one, it definitely looks photoshopped to me which is why I didn't post it originally. I had a look around to try and find an original source but couldn't find one so I assumed it was a fake and posted the Jackie Stewart one instead.
Gilles 27 wrote:Amanda, is that 3rd pic of yours at Solitude?
According to the place I stole it from, yes. I really wouldn't have a clue otherwise.
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One thing I think we should consider is that the pic has been enhanced thus giving it the illusion of being photoshopped. I have seen a few of those races and they are indeed getting airborne, I just think the enhancement makes the height seem more than it actually was.
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This is a better example of a photoshop moment which bud made a few years back.
"And Mansell was lucky not to be taken off by that RIDICULOUS bit of driving by Alliot!!" - James Hunt "AAAAAND into the pitlane..... OHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!" - Murray Walker
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"And Mansell was lucky not to be taken off by that RIDICULOUS bit of driving by Alliot!!" - James Hunt "AAAAAND into the pitlane..... OHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!" - Murray Walker
Jabberwocky wrote:the thing that makes look false to me is that the shadow of the car is too small
Height plus angle says it all. Of course the shadow is not going to be on a 1/1 scale for several reasons;
1. The quality of the equipment. 2. In the pic the sunlight is coming from our left thus pushing the shadows image inward on the leftside. Notice how the right side shadow almost aligns perfectly with the the wheels?
My point being is that I have seen these old races and they do get seriously airborne. Imagine what it would have looked like with aerodynamics in place??
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