Comments on: Charley Seavey F1, 1973

By: Charley Seavey

Charley Seavey — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 20:47:17 +0000

Later… well, it turns out this is the British GP at Silverstone. I was in Europe until July 26th and the race was July 14th. Since I had (and still have) the USGP program when I was scanning these slides, and had very strong memories of the USGP weekend, it didn’t occur to me it might have been a different race. Would that I’d had a digital camera with all that nice imbedded EXIF data to inform me what I had been doing. Major style points to Michael Oliver, and apologies to Peter Vack.

By: Charley Seavey

Charley Seavey — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 19:04:01 +0000

Michael, good grief, you may very well be right. The numbers are the same. My problem is that I think I was back in the states by mid-July of 1973. I’m going to have to see if I can find my military orders and check my return date. In my defense I had just gotten through going through a lot of 1961-62 F1 race pics where the car numbers changed pretty much every race, and I definitely remembered being at Watkins Glen that year, not so sure about Silverstone. Does anybody remember when F1 started using the same car numbers all season long? Good catch on the beer sign and newspaper advert. I identified another picture I had taken by spotting a Belgian beer sign in the background.

By: Michael Oliver

Michael Oliver — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 12:21:07 +0000

Charles, I think you may have got your events mixed up. These photos appear to have been taken at the 1973 British Grand Prix at Silverstone, were you there as well? The clues are the Daily Express (a British newspaper) banner in the background of the pic of the shooting break, the back of the old Silverstone pits visible in the Tyrrell pic and the words Bass Charrington (a British beer brewer) in the background of the McLaren pic. It appears the race numbers were the same at both events for the cars shown, so an understandable mix-up!