Don H. Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 From one of the TR3 groups on FB. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EdwinTiben Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 Great !! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Don H. Posted October 2, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 Comments on the original FB post note, painfully, that this is the TR2 being driven by Dutchman Joseph Göttgens, who died in a crash in the Viale Aleardi, Florence during that year's race. These privately taken photos posted by Paul Genovese of Firenze have not been published prior to his FB post. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Geko Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 (edited) edit. Edited October 2, 2015 by Geko Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RogerH Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 Hi Don, sadly us non-facebookers can't open the link. Roger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Don H. Posted October 2, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 Can you see the photos, Roger? That's really all there is. If you can't see them I'll repost from my SmugMug account. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
McMuttley Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 A sad story about Gottgens, but poignant that the snaps show him giving it all. Such a great picture of just a tiny moment in his life, but i suspect it sums him up Getting private photos into tagged public archives is going to be big in the years to come. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RogerH Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 Hi Don, I can see the two in the actual post. Very wet with some very scared people running for cover. Roger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Andrew Smith Posted October 3, 2015 Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 (edited) ..............Very wet with some very scared people running for cover. I blame the signs on the side of the building which point to them....... Edit: It looks like his spare wheel cover has departed company. Cheers Andrew Edited October 3, 2015 by Andrew Smith Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RogerH Posted October 3, 2015 Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 Hi Andrew, does the 'R' on the arrow stand for RUN. Roger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ianc Posted October 3, 2015 Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 In Frédéric Reydellet's Tome 5 of his magnificent "Les Triumph en Compétition", there are shots of Gottgens at the start on pages 220 and 224, and on page 228, Frédéric states that (my approximate translation) on the outskirts of Florence, there was a precipitate exit from the route, the car was hurled violently straight into a tree and Gottgens paid a heavy price, the loss of his life. In 1956, he had competed with Paul Rousselle in his same TR, finishing 82nd, but Rousselle was not available for the '57 event, so Gottgens decided to go it alone. Motorsport is dangerous, and was even more dangerous 60 years ago. Ian Cornish Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Don H. Posted October 3, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2015 Thanks, Ian -- Frederic commented on the original Facebook posting, offering most of the information you noted. He also stated he'd not seen these privately-taken images before. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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