'Get Your Motor Running' Rainer W. Schlegelmilch Archive Limited Edition
By Rainer W. Schlegelmilch
Located in London, GB
Italian GP
Richie Ginther waits beside his Honda RA273 as mechanics work on the engine.
Image details
Championship: Formula 1 1966 (Formula 1, 1966)
Event: Italian GP
Date taken: Sunday, September 04, 1966
Location: Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Italy
Photographer: Rainer Schlegelmilch
Rainer W. Schlegelmilch the German born widely regarded "Master of Motorsports Photography" delighted in this series of works
Glamour, kitsch, sex and fast cars - this extraordinary body of work encapsulates the excitement of this era.
Limited edition to 150 only - Archive stamped and numbered - with certificate of authenticity
Oversize 24 x 24" inches / 61 x 61 cm paper size C type print
unframed.
Beautiful.
About Richie Ginther & Honda
BRM and Honda
In 1962, Ginther switched to the British-based BRM team to race alongside Graham Hill. The highlight of his time at BRM was finishing equal-second (with Hill) in the 1963 World Championship. Ginther scored more points than his British teammate over the whole season, but only a driver's six best scores were counted towards the championship.
His reputation as a solid "team player" and excellent test and development driver earned him an invitation to join the works Honda F1 team for 1965, for whom he scored his one and only GP win, at the 1965 Mexican Grand Prix. The win was also Honda's first in Formula 1. Ginther averaged 151.7 kilometres per hour (94.3 mph) over the curving 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) track in the 65 lap Mexico City event. His speed eclipsed the previous course record of 150.185 km/h (93.321 mph) established by Dan Gurney in 1964. It was the first time Honda had entered the Mexican Grand Prix.[22] Honda reentered international competition in the 1966 Italian Grand Prix. The team was three years old and had encountered difficulty in the preparation of a larger engine. Ginther led in Italy before his car crashed into a retaining wall and he broke his collarbone.[23] He signed with the Eagle F1 team in 1967 and raced in the Race of Champions. At Monaco after practice, his place on the grid was given to an F2 car weighted to bring it up to minimum F1 specifications, and Ginther left F1 in disgust.
Ginther won one race, achieved 14 podiums, and scored a total of 107 championship points.
He appeared in an uncredited role in the 1966 film Grand Prix as John Hogarth, a driver in the Japanese funded "Yamura" team. He also acted as one of the technical racing advisors for the movie.
While making an attempt to qualify for the 1967 Indy 500, Ginther broke a fuel line in his American Eagle Indy Car...
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1960s Modern John Dolan Landscape Photography
