A YEAR THROUGH THE LENS
FATE HAS A REPUTATION FOR MOVING in mysterious ways, but can sometimes be unexpectedly productive. When watchmaker and motor sport aficionado Richard Mille visited the DPPI archive to seek bygone images of racing cars in his own collection, he and DPPI’s managing editor Fabrice Connen were swiftly diverted by the breadth of content on the contact sheets before them – and the fact so many of the images were unfamiliar.
Thus were the seeds sown for a series of books throwing fresh light on our sport’s past. Published in 2018, the first of them covered 1965, the agency’s inaugural year of existence, and the newest – fifth in the series, just released – showcases 1969.
