Boavista Circuit - Oporto Historic Grand Prix

Didn’t want to hijack Gonças’ thread, so I decided to open a new one, to show some of my shots of the Oporto Historic Grand Prix.

For those who’re not familiar with the track, it is the comeback of a really significant track in the 50’s and 60’s (this was the circuit where Sir Jack Brabham won the spectacular 1960 World Championship - with two races of the season still remaining - at the wheel of the revolutionary rear-engined T53 Cooper Climax) which is now being used as the stage of a “revival” kind of event, every two years.

CC is welcome!!


First shot was with my new kenko 1.4x extender. The others were all shot with the usual 7D + 70-200mm f/4 L combo.

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Oporto Mayor and the Pit Babes.

The man behind the Oporto classic event. A true classic car enthusiast, preparing to have some shots taken alonside the grid girls, after taking part in a VIP race.

One of the stories that are usually told about his taste for classic cars: he once entered the “city hall” garage, found an old Mercedes bought some decades before, by another Mayor of the city. Meanwhile It had been abandoned, giving place to newer cars.

He ordered the mechanics to restore the old Merc and he now uses it for some of his official outings, instead of travelling in any of the more recent limos.

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Great collection of wonderful machinery,thanks for posting,bit full in the face for me,but well taken.

Good shots, had to look 3 times because i couldnt belive a umbrellas holding up the bonnet on the mini

Thanks for the comments, guys!

I agree, Chris, some might be heavily cropped, losing some of the ambiance.

Track shots were done through the fence, though, so there was not a lot of space around the cars to fill the image!

I d have to pick the marcos picture as the best. those leafs on the bumper just add to the whole photo!

Some nice pics there was shooting the Masters series at Brands in May lovely cars and so well turned out.

Thank you all for your comments!

Gonçalo: Almost all of the cars looked like that: real leaf sweeping/vacuum machines!!




Nuno