Description
This Clay Regazzoni Ferrari F1 Grand Prix poster looks at the office rather than the car: a close crop of a vintage cockpit, the rim of the steering wheel, a bank of round gauges and the shift gate within reach of a gloved hand.
The cockpit is the part of a racing car that dates a photograph faster than the bodywork does. There are no buttons, no screens and no menus, only dials that have to be read while the car is moving and a lever that has to be found without looking. It is a picture about workload, not about speed.
Why a Clay Regazzoni Ferrari F1 Grand Prix poster is a cockpit and not a car
Detail crops hang differently from action shots. This one rewards a close wall, a stairwell landing or a corridor where people pass within a metre, because the satisfaction is in the machining and the gauge faces rather than in the composition read from across a room. It also pairs unusually well with tools, instruments and other close-up work.
Two spells at Scuderia Ferrari
Regazzoni raced for Scuderia Ferrari across two periods in the 1970s, from 1970 to 1972 and again from 1974 to 1976, in an era when a driver worked the gearbox and read the instruments for himself. His record is set out at Wikipedia. He died in 2006.
Hang it with
Three that sit well beside it: vintage race car wall art, vintage F1 pit lane kiss poster, vintage F1 pit crew poster, or browse the whole Formula 1 poster collection.
Printed and shipped by Montclair
Every Montclair poster is made to order, so nothing is stocked and nothing is ever out of stock. Yours is printed with archival pigment inks rather than dye, as a giclee at 300 dpi on 200 gsm (80 lb) archival matte paper, FSC-certified or equivalent, with a smooth, uncoated, non-reflective surface at 0.26 mm (10.3 mils). It goes on the press within 72 hours. Delivery is tracked and free worldwide, typically 8 to 13 days, with shipping already inside the price. Unframed posters ship rolled in a rigid tube. Framing is available from 27×35 cm to 70×100 cm in solid wood, assembled by hand with hanging hardware fitted to the back.
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