The European Grand Prix marks the 500th Grand Prix for Lotus and earlier this year the marque celebrated the 50th anniversary of its maiden Formula 1 victory, which was achieved at Monaco, by Stirling Moss, driving a privately entered Rob Walker Lotus 18.
To celebrate this historic anniversary the staff at Sutton Images, the world’s largest independent motor sport photographic agency, delved into the David Phipps archives and found a number of photographs from that event. The negatives, unseen for 50 years, were scanned and painstakingly restored. Here are a selection of them.
“Sutton Images is very proud to own the David Phipps archive which charts the dramatic history of the sport from the Sixties through to the Eighties,” says Keith Sutton. “The 1960 Monaco Grand Prix was the first Formula 1 race that David photographed and for this reason we gain great satisfaction in publishing these magnificent photographs online.”
joeblogsf1 
Brillian photos and thanks for sharing Joe. I love pictures like this! I hope Stirlings recovery is still going full speed.
When was the last victory in a lotus that was not entered by the factory?
Help me internet!
British GP 1968 RRC Walker Racing Team
Great photos!
Peter.
Terrific stuff, always liked David Phipps work. But Sutton’s web site is a bit of a mess. Can you give us a link to these shots specifically?
Fantastic pics, beautiful work.
Fantastic Images. Thanks for posting them.
Beautiful images, thanks for posting and for giving us decent res. The picture of Moss and Chapman is priceless.
Joe, wonderful blog spot, the first place I go when I get online. This is off topic from the above article, although good on Lotus!, but I noticed you have not commented on Bernie’s rather bizarre remarks about HD broadcasts of Grands Prix. He said, according to Autosport, that he would consider HD technology when people are ready for it. What people is he talking about? Most of us (at least in my situation) do not pay extra to see broadcasts in HD, nor would I consider it to watch F1 races. Is HD really that far behind the USA in Europe? How long has it been since Bernie has watched television? I have to sit though endless “Carpet World” commercials that are produced and televised in HD. Do they have better technology than Formula One Management? This weekend alone, I watched Rolex Grand Am racing, Indy Car racing (Just a step up from SCCA Nationals as far as I’m concerned), and NASCAR; all televised in HD. I think this goes to show what a “bubble” Bernie Ecclestone lives in, isolated from the average fan.
markdartj
When he says “when people are ready for it”, he means that when people are ready to pay for it…
Great to glimpse the Gasometer again. Splendid stuff… more please sir!
Bernie is out of his ever loving mind if he thinks that we will pay “extra” to watch F1 in HD. WRC is in HD. Rolex and ALMS are in HD. Here in the US I can watch the NFL, NBA and MLB in HD. The World Series of Poker is in HD. Whether Bernie wants to acknowledge it or not, HD is part of “the show.” If F1 wants long term growth in a very competitive market for global entertainment, they don’t have a choice.
Right now Bernie has the luxury of a very competitive championship with some exciting racing which allows him to spout off such ridiculous comments. A few consecutive races like Bahrain and Bernie and FOM might change their tune.
On UK TV adverts certain companies are already promoting their 3D HD televisions.
F1 in 3D! Now there’s a thought.
Lotus Racing may think that it is their 500th GP, but in fact it is only their 9th.
Lotus Racing is NOT the former F1 team Team Lotus. It is a complete seperate entry with a different name and different owner.
I have to say I’m slowly coming round to the idea of the new Lotus team. I suppose it represents the modern British motor industry (foreign ownership but made in the UK) in the same way as old Lotus represented the British motor industry of the time (chronic unreliability in the 60s and 70s, mismanagement in the 80s, died in the 90s)
Didn’t Innes Ireland win the 1959 US GP for Lotus…??
Mark James
That was 1961
Joe, thanks for your reply. I am already paying for it, with my monthly payment to my cable provider. The point is, HDTV is almost becoming a birthright in the US. When I switched to HD, I didn’t have to pay extra for it. Now the dish companies are also offering it for no extra charge. If this were 1995, I might understand Mr. Ecclestone’s comments. If he wanted to charge extra for HD, that would have been the time to do it; to be in front of the trend. As I said before, even late night commercials are now been broadcast in HD. I know I’m belaboring the point, but I get the feeling that this is something that Bernie missed by waiting too long.
Beautiful photos. Thanks to you and to Sutton images, what a great blog you give us, and now this treats…!.
this is not your father’s Lotus — the roots may be in England but ownership is far, far away — not the same legacy