Glad you like these, Mike, and that you know the relevance of these legendary pilots. Or should I say “Gods?”
I think you’re right about the title-winning car being an FW07, and certainly IMO Villeneuve never had a great car following 1979. That said, I don’t think he ever had the best car on the grid.
Here’s more F5000 from my childhood. I’ve finally started scanning my old Black & Whites, lots of work as not in impeccable shape. If you’re enjoying them, I’ll keep posting, and will add newer images from when my work grew up as well. Thank You.
Another of Alan Jones in the Teddy Yip-owned Lola T-332 at Pocono, on the Grid before Qualifying. Tony Brise had driven this car before Jones, but was killed in a plane crash that also took Graham Hill:
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One great and mostly-unsung hero, Hawaiian Danny “On the Gas” Ongais at Road America. Danny nearly won the Indy 500 in around 1980 or so, and also had some big injuries there:
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This was scanned for the current owner of this Lola T-430, he bought 45 prints recently. F5000 is alive and very well Down Under, they get 35 cars+ for their races — one being an opening race for the Australian GP. The look on that kid’s face tells my life story:
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