Well, it had to be a Le Mans picture for your desktop delight this week didn't it! Many options - almost too many - so we'll go with the first we stumbled across while researching the Alfa Romeo 33/3 featuring in the introduction to Mark Hales' informative
track guide videos
. This is an earlier closed cockpit 33/2 of Giancarlo Baghetti and Nino Vaccarella leading the Alpine A110 of Nusbaumer/Bourdon through the chicane in the 1968 race.
This car failed to finish but three other 33/2s came in fourth, fifth and sixth behind the winning Ford GT40 and two Porsches. Not bad going considering the Alfa only had a 2.0-litre V8.
Sadly Alfa Romeo's Le Mans trophy cabinet remains bare, the Italian brand not having won a race at La Sarthe since before the war and the era of the dominant 8C. But if not an outright winner the 33/2 is a wonderfully evocative car and the pic has all the necessary 70s Le Mans 'dressing', including chaps nonchalantly leaning against the Armco inches from the racing line and Gendarmes in all their finery among the crowd.