RPM & The Tate Collection Agree Content Partnership
- RPM
- Jun 18
- 2 min read
JUNE 2026
RPM is delighted to announce that it has agreed a content partnership with the Tate Collection; one of the world’s leading curated collections of Formula 1 on colour film from the ‘golden era’ Grand Prix decades of the 1950s and ‘60s.
Amongst the many treasures now available to view on the RPM media hub are pin-sharp colour images of Juan Manuel Fangio’s 1957 Monaco Grand Prix triumph (at the wheel of the legendary Maserati 250F), Jim Clark’s annihilation of the rest of the F1 field at the 1965 French GP, and John Surtees being mobbed and held aloft by a delighted Monza crowd after winning the ’67 Italian Grand Prix.
These iconic moments, amongst many other spectacular-looking examples, are now available for commercial licence only via RPM.
Christopher Tate – son of original cameraman extraordinaire John Tate – commented that “My father may have been an amateur camera operator…but he made films to a professional, and, indeed, award-winning standard, throughout the 1950s and ‘60s. It is a very special collection, and I am very pleased that Steve Rider and his team have picked it up, and will be running with it, from now on.”
Broadcaster Steve Rider – RPM’s founder – stated that “All the spirit of the age came through John Tate’s camera lens; the spirit of adventure, the sense of fun. The fact that he was touring around Europe with some of the greatest names in world motorsport.”
So we’re delighted to have the Tate Collection join us as part of the Racing Past Media project.”
“We will work hard to make sure that this wonderful footage reaches the wider audience that it so richly deserves.”
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