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Jeff Allison: Head Shots Part 1

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The author getting fancy with a self-portrait using the mirror of an open-wheel vintage racer at the Daily Express International Trophy at Silverstone, England on April 7, 1974.

Story and photos by Jeff Allison

I recently finished a project to put my “head shots” of drivers in one place and thought maybe the readers of VeloceToday might enjoy seeing some. I began photographing races in 1959 with my last “real” race, i.e., not vintage, in 1997. I didn’t take many “head shots” in my early years as I thought it was an affront to the drivers. However, as time went on, I loosened up (a telephoto lens helped) and began to photograph drivers as well as cars. Most were photos of opportunity while wandering the paddock and pits when I wasn’t out on the track.

Here are some of my favorites…

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Personalities at the Festival of Speed

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Nigel Mansell and Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 11th Duke of Richmond.

Story and Photos by Jonathan Sharp

One of the privileges granted to accredited and fully insured (see last week’s article) photographers at the Festival of Speed is to be able to access the assembly areas in which the entrants in each group/class are gathered before being sent down to the hill start line. It is in the assembly area that I get my best chance of pointing my camera at some famous drivers and riders old and new.

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An Interview with Jackie Ickx

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Left is Jacky Ickx, here with Uwe Meissner, head of Modena Motorsport.

Interview and photos by Hugues Vanhoolandt
From the VeloceToday Archives, July, 2009

Jacques-Bernard Ickx was born into motor racing. His father was a famous Belgian motoring journalist and his brother was a successful motorcycle racer. Fathers, take heart; despite, or because of, being surrounded by cars and racing, young Ickx found it boring. [Read more…] about An Interview with Jackie Ickx

A Word or Two with Jacky Ickx

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Left is Jacky Ickx, here with Uwe Meissner, head of Modena
Motorsport.

Interview and photos by Hugues Vanhoolandt

Jacques-Bernard Ickx was born into motor racing. His father was a famous Belgian motoring journalist and his brother was a successful motorcycle racer. Fathers, take heart; despite, or because of, being surrounded by cars and racing, young Ickx found it boring. [Read more…] about A Word or Two with Jacky Ickx

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