1970 Gold Cup

[Pete]

A few years ago I was lucky to get a set of beautiful colour slides from a photographer by the name of Eddie Whitham, all saloon cars at Oulton in the mid 60's. Eddie was employed as a snapper at a local Warrington newspaper in the 60's and 70's and covered most ativities at Oulton Park for the paper. He took mainly monochrome stuff but always took colour slide film with him to take pictures for his own collection. Just as well because when Eddie Shah took over the paper (and several others) some years later he had all the old negs and prints binned. Whitham kept most of his old colour slides though and also cine film that he also took at events. Film like this one at the Gold Cup in 1970 :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCrlBD1gCcw

This was back in the days when F1 stars came up to Oulton as you can see. The supporting saloon race is pretty star studded also, look out for Gordon Spice in the Arden 8 port 1300 Mini (formerly an Abingdon works race car) dicing with Gerry Marshall's Viva.

[surfblue63]

There's some great footage of the late Jochen Rindt in that film, thanks for posting.

[ivor badger 2]

There's some great footage of the late Jochen Rindt in that film, thanks for posting.

Wearing a white Bell star and not his normal green helmet. Wonder if that what he was wearing at Monza and when he took to using it?

[surfblue63]

Yes the white helmet was used at Monza



and also the German GP in 1970

[ivor badger 2]

Checking photos and it appears Rindt used the Bell star from Hockenhiem, but never had it painted