Motorsports photographer Rainer W. Schlegelmilch has been covering grand prix racing in all its glory since 1962.

His favorite F1 moments from the Sixties have now been collected into a brilliant, massive new book, The Golden Age of Formula 1, from teNeues.

Here the great Sir Jackie Stewart gets his fill of Moët & Chandon after a victory in France in 1969

Here the great Sir Jackie Stewart gets his fill of Moët & Chandon after a victory at France’s Clermont-Ferrand track in 1969.

Stewart, who provided a foreword for the book, waxes nostalgic about “great years, great cars and great people.”

Not to mention, presumably, great champagne.

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