Photos: The Bill Pottinger Collection - Part 1

[Grant Sprague]

Beautiful photos thanks for sharing with us ........................ from a damp mild Tauranga morning ..... Grant

[Steve Holmes]

Jochen Rindt brakes heavily in his Lotus 49BT during practice for the 1969 Teretonga International. He clocked fastest time in practice but then broke a driveshaft at the start of the race.

[Steve Holmes]

Graham Hill (Lotus 49T) prepares for the January 1969 Teretonga round of the Tasman Series. Hill finished 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] in the round behind Piers Courage in a Brabham BT24 Ford V8, prototype for the 1968 F1 Brabham. Hill generally finished behind team mate Jochen Rindt in his similar Lotus 49T.

[Rod Grimwood]

Awesome photo of Rindt, the car is working, look at the angle of top arms on front suspension, distortion in wing and wing struts, (makes you wonder how good they really were, no side bracing and flexing is taking all advantage away) They got them right later on. Rindt, he was a very quick driver.

[Steve Holmes]

Clyde Collins (PDL Falcon being tapped by Jack Nazer FVC Escort) at Teretonga. (about Jan 1971 International?)

[Murray Maunder]

Wow! Stunning photos every one! In case it needs pointing out, unlike today's snappers these guys shooting to film had to make every shot count with the cost of film and processing usually amounting to $1 each, today at least $10. Especially love Bill's study of the drivers, and he has a great eye for interesting angles that we see few shots from. Looking forward to The Bill Pottinger Collection Part 2.

[Michael Clark]

Jeepers these are good!

[Kiwiboss]

Clyde Collins (PDL Falcon being tapped by Jack Nazer FVC Escort) at Teretonga. (about Jan 1971 International?)

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WOW, look at the spectators, safety barriers(not) and fencing in the back ground!! and a powerpole to the left!! this is great stuff!! just so un-PC in todays world(unless you go to Puke that is, LOL) one can see what action the spectators are look at.

And Clyde Collins has almost disappeared leaning over, maybe he's trying to close the passenger door but Jacks doing it for him? can you imagine the type of seat belts and safety used back them!! im glad this has improved in 42 years!! Truly a great shot!!

Hmmmmmmmmmmm now let me see, a little car dive bombing into the side of a big car? where have i seen this before!! Amco

Dale M

[Grant Sprague]

Great elbows from Jack , lol , that's the way it [was ..is] Dale , chess in motion ... Clyde slow into the corner pissing Jack right off... I would say this is the elbow at Teretonga coming on to main straight ....... clyde running out of stoppers ....

[Grant Sprague]

I have some , if you would like , just need some one to post them ,,,, up here I have a real pob with this crop ap had some people try , just need an I T person ............... good one on Jimmy Clark taken from Ernie an other story on it,s own .... plus some for Steve ................ Grant

[bp photos]

Yes the photo of Clyde Collins is taken at the Elbow corner at Teretonga and Jack Nazer was desperate to get past.

The photo of Jochen Rindt braking is interesting in that the Lotus badge on the front of the car has a black background instead of the normal green background in memory of Jim Clark's death the previous April (1968).
Sadly Jochen was to crash in practice for the Italian Grand Prix on Sept 5th 1970 and I think this led to Lotus cars (both road and race)having another black background(instead of green) for another 12 month period. If my memory serves me right!!!!!

The photo of Roly Levis exiting the Teretonga Elbow corner shows him lifting his right arm up and out of the way while he puts on opposite lock with his left hand. Could this be why he lifted his arm like this?

Thankyou for your kind comments on the photos.

Bill Pottinger

[John McKechnie]

This picture of Clyde and Jack is one of many. Clyde was described in Autonews as the panelbeaters friend.
Two cars, one corner, and they were NOT racing for chocolate fish-they had prize money.
How is Clyde , does he ever visit this site?
I passed this site on to Brian Crosbie.

[Rod Grimwood]

Saw Clyde at Ruapuna (Lady Wigram meeting) last Nov. He is across the ditch, drops back occassionally. I had a good chat about this car with him and it was very interesting some of the bits he told me about it and what went on.

Bill thank you very much for shareing these photos, you sure got some goodies.

[Grant Sprague]

I recall the Clyde & Warner when I was a kid they were very interesting brothers kept up with up to date changes back in the late 60 s & 70,s very clever engineers I always respected their approach to the changing times , normally their cars were fast on from day one Warner the hard case & Clyde the more serious one .
Oh Brian Crosbie, I remember his fast escort [I think] Gary & him had some good races also when Brian brought the firebird up to Timaru to give Ernie a lesson [GTHOI] some super car race I think ?? any way I think Ernie had the widest car on that day ??

[John McKechnie]

My contact down there said that Brian had serious problems with the Firebird, and things were never the same again after that first race.

[Steve Holmes]

David Oxton’s Brabham cuts inside John Nicholson’s Brabham BT18 as they round the hairpin in the first round of the 1.5 litre Gold Star Championship for 1968/69. The race was won by Bert Hawthorne’s Brabham BT21C Twin Cam. Despite missing the first two rounds, Graham McRae won 6 of the remaining 7 rounds in his home-built McRae Twin Cam, to be overall winner of the series. After the last round McRae went overseas in the newly revived “Driver to Europe” scheme.

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Jochen Rindt brakes heavily in his Lotus 49BT during practice for the 1969 Teretonga International. He clocked fastest time in practice but then broke a driveshaft at the start of the race.

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The 49, with the high wing fitted is THE BEST looking car of the era!!!
(close second is dan gurneys eagle)

[Steve Holmes]

Niel Allen’s McLaren M10B accelerates towards the hairpin on the way to winning the 1971 Teretonga International on 24[SUP]th[/SUP] January. He won in a time of 60min 57.1 secs from Frank Matich and Teddy Pilette also in McLaren M10Bs. He went on to finish 3[SUP]rd[/SUP] behind Graham McRae and Matich in the 8 race Tasman Series of 1971.

[DJMcD]

Niel Allen’s McLaren M10B accelerates towards the hairpin on the way to winning the 1971 Teretonga International on 24[SUP]th[/SUP] January. He won in a time of 60min 57.1 secs from Frank Matich and Teddy Pilette also in McLaren M10Bs. He went on to finish 3[SUP]rd[/SUP] behind Graham McRae and Matich in the 8 race Tasman Series of 1971.

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Interesting isn't how F5000 brought us people we had never heard of before or much afterwards. This guy was one of those.

[DJMcD]

Superb shot from Bill. The 49T without the stupid high rear wing was one of the best lookers, Rindt was also one of the best we ever saw, great driver taken far too soon.