YOU WERE THERE

YOU WERE THERE

Daytona, Watms Gen anc Crc

JOHN GAUERKE

Over 60 years John Gauerke has assembled a vast archive of photos right back to Indy in the 1940s. {1} 1969 US GP: Jackie Stewart practicing the zen calm he will need when his Matra’s engine fails while leading. Daytona 1967: Chris Amon (aboard) and Lorenzo Bandini discuss their Ferrari P4 The same year, US GP: having qualified well in his Eagle-Weslake,

Dan Gurney muses on the race to come. NART flew the flag for Ferrari at Watkins Glen in ’69, with Pedro Rodriguez in their single car.

DENZIL MONIS

A long-time devotee of the magazine, Denzil Monis has a collection of Motor Sports going back to 1949, when as he puts it “I first set foot on this race track of life”. He sent us a selection of Grand Prix images, but we were tickled by this shot of a more grass-roots event our own Jenks (Denis Jenkinson) with his Tribsa (Triumph engine, BSA frame) bike at the Cricket St Thomas hillclimb in September 1982. Although he mixed with all the Grand Prix greats, Jenks was

equally at home up to his elbows in oil in a grass paddock with other ‘bike and car people.