Comments on: Classic F1 cars from the ’70s and ’80s in action at Paul Ricard (Pictures)

By: Jon Bunston

Jon Bunston — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:52:00 +0000

Happy to share some of ours from the Paul Ricard meeting as well as the rest of the Historic F1 Season.

Great cars to shoot and great people to work with

Jon

By: Bigbadderboom

Bigbadderboom — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:34:35 +0000

That JPS Lotus was awesome, some of the ciggarette branded teams have had the best liverys. But the black JPS was exceptional.

By: Wesley

Wesley — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:25:12 +0000

Tyrrell 012 is a beauty!I love the old Lotus cars best though,with their green and yellow livery.

By: Racin Rob

Racin Rob — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:59:30 +0000

Is anyone else having trouble picturing the 2008 cars running in an event like this 25-30 years down the road?? I can’t see a future rich gentleman driver wanting to employ 10 people MIN just to keep his weekend toy running.

Those cars truely were from a simpler time…..

By: marc

marc — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:22:57 +0000

UGLY?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?? there alot better looking than todays f1 cars.

By: K

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:49:24 +0000

Damn those are some ugly cars but at least they have a bit more character than the FIA prescribed clones we’re used to now.

By: Mussolini's Pet Cat

Mussolini's Pet Cat — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:56:53 +0000

It’s a good point. I grew up loving the JPS livery on the Lotus’ and never once connected ciggies with these cars.

By: GeeMac

GeeMac — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:51:48 +0000

I love the Lotus 87… I want a classic F1 car too!

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:43:12 +0000

Same here – pity it was on the same day as the Goodwood Festival of Speed, otherwise the turn out might have been even better.

For anyone who baulks at the eye watering cost of attending a contemporary GP, Historic F1 is a much cheaper way of hearing a grid of wonderful Cosworth DFVs, getting close to some older F1 machinery and seeing it in action.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:41:08 +0000

Nope, but I believe he owns the Brabham BT49 pictured above.

By: steph

steph — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:30:40 +0000

I know! Cars like JPS Lotus should never be touched as they are a thing of beauty.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:16:34 +0000

I think it’s nice that they still have the proper ciggie ads on the cars; I thought some bit of legislation would have necessitated its removal.

By: Serbian Kimi

Serbian Kimi — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:04:40 +0000

These cars are soooo nice to look at!

So simpler yest so prettier designs…the 70s and 80s were unquestionably happier times racing-wise..if only safety was at the same level as today….

Brilliant pics, Keith, thank you so much!

My favourite: Martin Brundle’s Tyrell 012:)

By: Nitpicker

Nitpicker — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:48:03 +0000

Still I can’t help but wonder why the Historic F1 championship gets a French round but its big brother doesn’t.

You mean Bernie isn’t in charge of Historic F1?

By: Icthyes

Icthyes — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:33:14 +0000

Thanks for these Keith, they were some lovely beauties in that era, like the JPS Lotus and the Tyrrell 012. If I;d been around at that time I would have thought the space-age Surtees TS9B would become the blueprint for the future, and look how wrong I’d have been!

By: Mussolini's Pet Cat

Mussolini's Pet Cat — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:57:38 +0000

Now you’re talking! The Lotus & Williams cars of that era were gorgeous.

By: LewisC

LewisC — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:44:45 +0000

Great pics. Anyone who wants to see these cars should keep an eye out – I saw a lot of them racing earlier in the year at Brands Hatch at the Historic Festival which was amazing.

By: steph90

steph90 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:27:31 +0000

Thanks for these Keith
I sort of wish I was born earlier to actually see these cars race back in the 70s and 80s.
Favourite is the Tyrrell 012 closely followed by the March 701