Over 26 million motorsport and Automotive Photos
The Motorsport Images Universe
Covering over 100 years of Motorsport and Automotive history
Motorsport Images is known globally as the definitive photo resource for all things motor racing and automotive, not just Formula 1, with over 26 million assets dating back to 1895 through to what happened on the track a few seconds ago. It supplies newsrooms across the world, provides visual content to editorial platforms and works directly with brands such as Rolex to create compelling and exciting advertising campaigns.
Including extensive, and often exclusive, coverage of:
- The complete history of Formula One
- The origins of the first motorized vehicles
- Le Mans dating back to 1923 through to present day
- NASCAR
- Moto GP
- Formula E
- Extreme E
- With more racing series added all the time
We are able to offer subscribe and quota models to suit your needs and accounts created in a matter of minutes with photos ready to download and use
Always adding to our collection
Currently working with a variety of racing clients
New photos added every weekend
We attend every major motorsporting event and upload instantly
Complete selection of automotive pictures
1000's of pictures of launches and concept cars
Photos delivered in minutes
Motorsport Images photographers are equipped with devices to transmit their images live from the camera trackside to our team of editors. From there they can be fed with full metadata in near real-time to clients via FTP, email, a website backed with API access and WhatsApp
Our pictures are used this way by the social media teams of McLaren and Haas F1 these pictures are shared with their 6.6 million and 1.2million followers respectively
Romain Grosjean Accident
Right place, right time, right service
A Motorsport Images photographer was the only one to capture the accident. We had our picture sent within minutes to clients. The picture gracing international newspaper front covers.
Premium Video Offering
Motorsport Images have launched their highly anticipated video platform, a new premium, historical video offering that is now available for license by Broadcasters, Brands and Comms Agencies.
Compromising rich video content from the world of motor racing dating back to the 1940’s through to the 1990’s with key moments involving personalities such as Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher. Covering both 4 wheel and 2 wheel racing Motorsport Images Video will launch initially with more than 1,000 hours of content building upon Motorsport Images existing collection of over 26 million images.
Case Study
Ferrari turns to Motorsport Images for help with their historic book
The Scuderia Ferrari Formula One team are the only team to take part in over 1,000 Formula 1 World Championship Grands Prix. To celebrate this milestone, the Italian team produced a new book showing a visual story, with an image from every race they have competed in since 1950.
To help in this monumental task, Ferrari turned to Motorsport Images to supply 130 of the images from its unique, unbroken collection.
Our collections inculde
The history of Motorsport accross different motorsport categories
Le Mans
Full Collection from 1906
F1
Dating back to 1925
WRC
1000's of images
Superbikes
Complete collection
Nascar
Worldwide Motorsport coverage
Extreme E
Covering the growing new form of Eletric racing
Automotive images
Libary features Classic and modern cars
“In a world like Formula 1 which is so visual, images are so important - we are simply lucky to work with Motorsport Images”
Fernando Alonso Formula One World Champion
“I have worked with Motorsport Images for the past 25 years, First as a formula 1 journalist and editor, then in comm and PR for McLaren and Aston Martin also in Formula 1, and it is no exaggeration to say that I have found them to be consistently excellent throughout that quarter-century.
Their photographers are capable and collaborative, the results of their labours superb, and their famous photographic archive second to none”
Matt Bishop, Chief Communication officer, Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One Team
We also cover other areas of motor racing
Official Formula E photo agency; official service agreements with Mercedes, Jaguar, Techeetah, Envision Virgin, Venturi, Nio, Julius Bar, Heineken and the Saudi Arabia race promoter.
Official Extreme E photo agency, supplying the series and its participating teams
Official Extreme E & W Series photo agency
Supply a photo service to Deutsche Bank Wealth management on the Mille Miglia race on which they are lead partner