Alberto Ascari's D50 Lancia being extracted from the harbour after his crash during the 1955 Monaco GP.
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Your Golden Epoch?
Most motor racing folk look back to their favourite eras from time to time because we have brains that store memories. Like all 'disciplines' motor sport, in all its forms, has gone through highs and lows, but even during troughs, we can often reflect on something that has been stored in our minds with affection.
As usual your views and images will always be of great interest. And thanks.
A few memory joggers below.
As usual your views and images will always be of great interest. And thanks.
A few memory joggers below.
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Definitely not one being driven by by ghost 
. Probably part of the background but definitely look like an outline of a driver there.
. Probably part of the background but definitely look like an outline of a driver there.Gérhard Mitter during his early Formula Vee days. After a mixed bag of success in sports cars and F1, he lost his life driving a F2 BMW during practice for the 1969 German GP. He was just 33.
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As the French GP is just a week away, here's a pic from the 1907 event. The bridge was built especially for the race.
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Based on VW and Porsche components, Walter Glockler's 'specials' inspired Porsche to build its first sports-racing car - the 550 - in 1953.
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Rodriguez in the P153 on his way to beating Amon's March at Spa, 1970, by just over 1sec.
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Members of the Porsche team at Porsche's villa with a Steyr XXX, circa 1930.
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Luigi Fagioli en route to victory at Monaco, 1935, in the W25.
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And all four about as different as you could get to each other, unlike today's cars.
Carl Gustav XV1 of Sweden squeezes into his slender Formula Vee, late 1970s.
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