[Gallery] Sights of '50s and ‘60s F1 at the Monaco Historic Grand Prix | GRR
F1 in the 1960s was a dangerous and heroic time. And at Monaco it was the period in which Graham Hill stamped his authority on the event. At the Monaco Historic Grand Prix this weekend some of the ‘60s greatest machines, including the type Hill himself raced, are strutting their stunning stuff again.
Everything from Lotus to Cooper, Ferrari to BRM is here, with one particular highlight surely being the screaming Ferrari 1512, with it’s tiny 1.5-litre V12 engine roaring away as it flies through the streets of Monaco.
Up against it you’ll see the other rear-engined cars that raced during F1’s downsized times, and some of the later machines from the era that saw F1 begin to move away from pure simplicity of design and into the murky world of aerodynamics.
Theses are our favourite images of the cars from the weekend, a snapshot of the past as stunning, slender racing cars lithely slid between the barriers that encompass the Monaco Grand Prix circuit. Exquisite stuff.
Photography by Pete Summers and Ben Miles.