F1 Doom

[TheFaQQer]

I miss the goggles, the bales of hay, and Murray Walker.

Murray is coming out of retirement when it moves to BBC next year.

[Mich the Tester]

Murray is coming out of retirement when it moves to BBC next year.

I do so hope you're right. Shame they can't resurrect James Hunt though.

[TheFaQQer]

I do so hope you're right. Shame they can't resurrect James Hunt though.

Sadly, it's only to write in the BBC online pages, it seems

Linky.

[Doggy Styles]

Right on.

Lotus & Emerson Fittipaldi, James Hunt & Hesketh racing, huge tyres, dolly birds, champers, JPS etc etc.

I do not doubt the skill of the drivers today but I doubt many of them even contemplate the real chance of death or serious injury that was always lurking in periphery back then.

It’s just too sterile these days.

Those were the days ... oily rags, the Paul Ricard circuit, gear-sticks (on the right), drivers racing in other formulas on their weeks off, lugging on a quick fag round the back of the pits, marshals in bowler hats (I might be imagining that one), engine tuning with screwdrivers and gap guages instead of laptops, and just two mechanics per team in brown overalls and flat caps...

[Mich the Tester]

tugging on a fag round the back of the pits,

Really, you should know better; it's a family site you know!

[Doggy Styles]

"tugging on a fag round the back of the pits,"

Really, you should know better; it's a family site you know!

Well, half of the old British drivers were public schoolboys...

[Bagpuss]

Mosley was saying only a few weeks ago that the credit crunch is really going to hit F1. Just look how much bank/finance, not to mention multi millions fromstruggling motor manufacturers. It's either going to have to get more basic or die.