Photographer shoots Formula 1 with a 104-year-old camera

Was the photographer also in a car? How did he make the car not blurry and the background look like Flash Gordon in black and white?

The technique used in this photo is called motion capture photography, with a slow shutterspeed, focusing on the car, thus blurring out everything else, now, if the photographer had used faster shutterspeed, the technique would have been stop motion capture photography, making everything in the photo looking less blurry, and the car would look like it was parked

I'll bet it does.