Photo Gallery by Jonathan Sharp
Six years ago, on July 5, 2012 we noted that newcomer Jonathan Sharp caught our attention when he sent along a few B&W images of the Bugattis at Prescott. He told us he lived in the Brighton area of the U.K., not too far from Goodwood. “My first love has always been Ferrari, a passion started when I was given a Dinky Ferrari 250LM model”, he wrote. “I am happiest pointing my trusty camera at cars (preferably Italian) or my other love, piston powered fighter planes; a Spitfire or Mustang will stop me in my tracks and I can hear them when they are miles away and out of sight.” We said that are sure we’ll be seeing more of Mr. Sharp in the near future.
And we surely did. Sharp went on to cover the Goodwood’s Queen Tribute on July 18, Prescott on August 8, the Goodwood Revival/ that year in September and just picked up steam from there.
He is our main man in the UK, rarely misses a major event and often ventures out to events in Italy and here in the U.S. Sharp’s interest in both prop-driven aircraft and steam locomotives as well as his superb personality portraits provide a unique mix of topics and images to his stories.
But he had a life before VeloceToday, and as he was sorting out old images, he sent us about 75 photos, most taken before he signed on with VeloceToday. Of that, we painfully got the number down to about 30 for this gallery. – Pete Vack
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Your date has been waiting since 1963, and she is ____ (fill in the blank).
Alfa Romeo Sprint Speciale, Concours Italiano, oh how I love the light in California.
Sir Archibald Sinclair, a Battle of Britain class Pacific 4.6.2 locomotive, blows off some steam on the Bluebell Railway deep in the heart of Sussex.
More California sunshine, Ferrari 250GT Speciale, Laguna Seca.
Miuras at Concorso Italiano
Corrado Lopresto’s Alfa 6C2500 at Brooklands.
Goodwood Auto Union
Ferrari 312 Monterey 2010
Slender Tender and tall, One of over 50 North American Aviation P51 Mustangs that had gathered at Columbus Ohio in 2007 for what was billed as the final round up.
Lancia My transport for a night at Brooklands, a pals very rare right hand drive Lancia Flaminia 2500GT.
330GTO of Carlo Vogele, Laguna Seca.
Goodwood chicanery
Hans Stuck in his father’s Auto Union
1934 Bugatti Type 59 Owner/Driver: Charles McCabe at Laguna Seca. The Bugatti is also featured in our banner this month.
Spitfire sunset
Sir Jackie Stewart and company
Color of a Cobra
Silver Arrows
Read the tach, Laguna Seca again.
Mavis does her party piece. Chris Williams fire’s up Mavis’s 1500 hp,2000 foot pounds torque supercharged 42 Litre Packard Motor Torpedo boot engined Bentley Special by the Brooklands club house.
A posed shot, no doubt, but the girls didn’t notice the Cobra ladies behind them. Sharp did.
Mika Häkkinen
Maserati 250F V12, Festival of Speed 2010.
Some where in England 1944 ?, Actually it is Duxford Aerodrome about 8 years ago. Duxford, was once home to the 78th Fighter group of the USAAF.
Shell Petrol station scene, Goodwood Revival.
Maserati at Brands Hatch
Ferrrari 512, Silverstone
Dario does Jim Clark
Breadvan in the rain
Magnificent auspuffen
Fantastic collection, great eye for design & action.
Maserati 250F V12? Promising specification..
Wonderful just wonderful !
A great perspective of the no. 9 Ferrari down the corkscrew. I have photographed at and seen tons of photos of the corkscrew, but never this view. Regards, Steve Snyder, PhotoMedia