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Location | Le Mans |
Prints issue | LIMITED EDITION 30 prints ONLY |
Shooting date | June 20th, 1965 |
Original picture | Negative |
Formats | Large format |
Era | 1960-1980 |
Colors | Black&White |
Collection | Endurance LM |
Motorsport Images has the largest motoring picture collection in the world. The archive houses approximately 18 million images of which in the region of half are black and white negatives and glass plates. The library is made up of images from the world of motor sport since it began and every conceivable road car since it's invention. This incredible archive is the result of the amalgamation of a number of previously separate archives, which are now housed under one roof.
Many of the images are published pictures from the magazines owned and bought by Haymarket over the years and the archive contains the original prints from the very first 'Autocar' issue published in 1895 right through to the present day issue. 'The Motor' archive contains more sporting images with black and white negatives, glass plate and acetate from 1924 - subjects include road cars, sprints, hill climbs, motor shows and Grands Prix.
The original Teesdale Company supplied pictures to 'MotorSport' magazine (founded in 1924) and Motoring News (founded in 1955) and has over 4 million black & white negatives of motor racing events from the 1920's through to the early 1990's. The first colour images appeared in the mid 1950's and 30 years of unpublished 35mm colour images remain in the LAT Black Books. LAT now supplies the Haymarket Media Group, commercial clients, the worldwide media and agencies with motor sport coverage from around the world from Formula 1 to karting.
The 'Autosport' archive contains images from the world's leading motorsport weekly. Since 1950 all aspects of motor racing from Formula 1, Le Mans and sports cars, rallying, single seaters and club racing have been photographed and archived in colour and black and white formats.
This 1965 version of the M64 Alpine has certainly lost its 64 fairing, but retains its fastback rear version with a slight spoiler. In this photo, the Renault Alpine of Jacques Cheinisse and Jean-Pierre Hanrioud is having its "outside done" in Arnage by the Ferrari 275 GTB of Jean Blaton (known as Beurlys) and Willy Mairesse, and will unfortunately have to retire on the 196th lap, so that the Ferrari will take 3rd place on the podium.
The 275 GTB/C of the Belgians had the same engine and the same power as the two 275LM which will be 1 and 2 during this edition of Le Mans 1965, and will finish 3rd overall and 1st GT.
This photo is also intriguing, not for the automobile action, but for the disinterest displayed by the spectators in the foreground: fascinating article in La Nouvelle République (cf the reader's bob) or ranking of the day before? crossword or pointing? that is the question...