And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tim Latrell (https://www.timlayzell.com/index.htm)
From the home page on the website (linked above): In 1995, at the age of 13, Tim Layzell won the British Racing Drivers Club's prestigious Young Motoring Artist Award. He is now regarded as one of the World's leading motoring artists. He has exhibited at prestigious events including Goodwood Festival of Speed and Revival, Monaco Grand Prix, Silverstone, London and Pebble Beach, California where his works have always proved extremely popular. His work has been featured numerous times in motoring magazines, newspapers and event posters.
His description for this particular piece of his artwork shown above, is titled "Tortoise and the Hare", and reads as follows: The 1959 Le Mans 24 hours is famous as the culmination of David Brown’s dream to see his cars win the world’s most prestigious race, and while history will show that the DBR1 of Carroll Shelby and Roy Salvadori finished first, arguably it was the virtuoso performance of Stirling Moss which won the race for Aston Martin. Although the DBR1 was considerably slower than the Ferrari 250 Testa Rossas ranged against it, Moss acted as the ‘hare’ making one of his legendary dashes at the Le Mans start and leading comfortably at the end of the first lap. In contrast, Ferrari team leader Jean Behra stalled his car twice at the start and though last away was determined to make an impression on home ground, finishing the first lap in 16th place as he fought through the field in pursuit of Moss. After an hour, he caught the number 4 Aston and passed Moss for the lead as the two cars tore down the Mulsanne straight. Here, Behra leads Moss through Terte Rouge. By half distance, both cars had retired and Moss’ work was done, his team mates cruising to a relatively untroubled victory in the sister DBR1.
It really is. You feel like you're in the third car.
ReplyDeleteFor some reason I started hearing "Go Speedracer, Go Speedracer, Gooooo!!!"
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ReplyDeleteTim Latrell (https://www.timlayzell.com/index.htm)
ReplyDeleteFrom the home page on the website (linked above): In 1995, at the age of 13, Tim Layzell won the British Racing Drivers Club's prestigious Young Motoring Artist Award. He is now regarded as one of the World's leading motoring artists.
He has exhibited at prestigious events including Goodwood Festival of Speed and Revival, Monaco Grand Prix, Silverstone, London and Pebble Beach, California where his works have always proved extremely popular. His work has been featured numerous times in motoring magazines, newspapers and event posters.
His description for this particular piece of his artwork shown above, is titled "Tortoise and the Hare", and reads as follows:
The 1959 Le Mans 24 hours is famous as the culmination of David Brown’s dream to see his cars win the world’s most prestigious race, and while history will show that the DBR1 of Carroll Shelby and Roy Salvadori finished first, arguably it was the virtuoso performance of Stirling Moss which won the race for Aston Martin. Although the DBR1 was considerably slower than the Ferrari 250 Testa Rossas ranged against it, Moss acted as the ‘hare’ making one of his legendary dashes at the Le Mans start and leading comfortably at the end of the first lap. In contrast, Ferrari team leader Jean Behra stalled his car twice at the start and though last away was determined to make an impression on home ground, finishing the first lap in 16th place as he fought through the field in pursuit of Moss. After an hour, he caught the number 4 Aston and passed Moss for the lead as the two cars tore down the Mulsanne straight. Here, Behra leads Moss through Terte Rouge. By half distance, both cars had retired and Moss’ work was done, his team mates cruising to a relatively untroubled victory in the sister DBR1.
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ReplyDeleteI used to see (and save) much of Tim's art as ads in my Classic and Sports car magazines.
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