Zandvoort Historic Grand Prix 2017

[Ferry_vO]

Another great weekend at the track in the Zandvoort dunes, with plenty of historic and unique cars. Here are a few highlights:

The experimental 4-wheel driven Lotus 63:

BMW 320 Turbo:

The Lotus 49 that won the first outing for this car and engine at the same track, driven by Jim Clark:

Another Lotus 49, the C version, together with a Lotus 72:

 

[Ferry_vO]

Arrows-Megatron A10 and A10B:

Porsche 917 015/035, the former Porsche circuit 'taxi':

Porsche 908/03:

Porsche RS Spyder Evo:

 

[Ferry_vO]

Porsche 936/77, quite surprised by how tiny this car is!:

Shadow Mk.1 Can-Am, owned and restored (But now for sale) by former Porsche designer Harm Lagaay:

The only 1983 ATS BMW Turbo, driven by it seems to be Giacomo Agostini!:

Jan Lammers spitting fire in the 1983 Brabham BMW BT52:

 

[Ferry_vO]

And how close can you get to the cars? Well, this is the cockpit of the Brabham:

 

[noddy]

Great photos Ferry, looks like a fantastic day.

 

[huub vink]

Beautiful pictures Ferry Thanks for posting them.

Huub

 

[Ferry_vO]

Great photos Ferry, looks like a fantastic day.

I could have been a fantastic day, but it was overshadowed by a very heavy accident in the 1966-1985 Formula 1 race. Frenchman David Ferrer lost control in his 1970 March 701 in the last corner of the first lap, and was possibly (I didn't see the actual accident) by another car. His was was ripped to shreds and David was resusitated on track and taken to hospital for further treatment. I don't know how his current condition is, but looking at the wreckage and the huge amount of rescue workers on the scene (Including a medical helicopter) it can't be good. Of course it is a risk you take while driving these old cars, but it still was a shocking incident.

 

[noddy]

Fingers crossed he is going to be ok.

 

[Ferry_vO]

More images from yesterday here: http://imgur.com/a/dtMZn

 

[eddie]

Ferry, I saw a 5 minute video on FB yesterday, of a guy driving Clarks car through town on its way to the track, kind of cool to see it going down streets in town,lol

 

[Ferry_vO]

That used to be common practice in the early days of the Dutch GP; all sorts of F1 and sports cars would drive through the streets each days during the race weekends as the teams favored the local garages to house their teams.

 

[Panther_99FS]

Looks like you had some fun there!
The Parmalat F1 cars bring back some good memories for me...