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| Location | Nürburgring |
| Prints issue | LIMITED EDITION 30 prints ONLY |
| Shooting date | 4th august 1957 |
| Original picture | Negative |
| Era | 1858-1960 |
| Colors | Red |
| Collection | Celebs |
| New products | New works |
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events from the 1920's through to the early 1990's. The first colour images appeared in the mid 1950's and 30 years of unpublished 35mm colour images remain in the LAT Black Books.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.
In his usual posture, marked by a disarming nonchalance—a nonchalance to the uninitiated who might have seen him speeding past in his remarkably efficient Maserati 250F during the 1957 season—Juan Manuel Fangio was about to win one of the most grueling races of his career. Perhaps even the greatest race of his life, according to authoritative observers of the time.
At the end of the penultimate Grand Prix of the season, held on the formidable Nürburgring circuit he so loved, Fangio would clinch the last of his five World Championship titles, even before the final race. A masterful battle pitted him against the two factory Ferraris of Hawthorn and, above all, Peter Collins, who was challenging him for the title. But in the final stages of this German Grand Prix, the two "youngsters" were never able to contain the maestro's masterful comeback. He had stopped one last time to change his tires, worn down by a Maserati that was notoriously thirsty for rubber.
Despite their constant rivalry, Collins and Hawthorn seemed just as happy on the podium as their Argentinian hero. They knew they would never have dared to stand in his way, such was their respect for this maestro who had inspired them so much before he reached Formula 1.
