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| Location | Circuit de Brands Hatch |
| Prints issue | LIMITED EDITION 30 prints ONLY |
| Shooting date | 20 juillet 1968 |
| Original picture | Negative |
| Formats | Large format |
| Era | 1960-1980 |
| Colors | Green |
| Collection | Vintage |
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events from the 1920's through to the early 1990's. The first colour images appeared in the mid 1950's and 30 years of unpublished 35mm colour images remain in the LAT Black Books.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.
With his checkered flag, this elegant gentleman in a cap properly salutes the first victory of Swiss driver Jo Siffert in his Lotus 49B Ford at the 1968 British Grand Prix. He won ahead of Chris Amon and Jacky Ickx. Ironically, it was on this same Brands Hatch circuit that he would lose his life during a non-championship F1 race on October 24, 1971.
But there are two celebrities in this photo. Indeed, this gentleman in the cap is none other than John Webb. An accountant by profession, he is an inseparable figure from the Brands Hatch circuit. As manager for decades of this circuit, one of the most demanding in England, he brought it to the forefront by becoming the organizer of the British Formula 1 Grand Prix from the 1960s to the 1980s.
