Couldn't sleep the other night, so I started flipping the ol' remote.
Terrestrial TV...? Anglia TV for that matter.. Oh I remember them. They transmit that F1 stuff... But wait..I don't remember it being this good!
The 1976 season final round from Fuji.
James Hunt, Mario Andretti, Patrick Depallier in the six-wheel Tyrell.. Great stuff! Hunt, struggling through the rain on cr*ppy tyres, Depallier spinning and nearly taking him out, Andretti way off in the distance... Brilliant! I couldn't believe the standards at the circuit - the cattle-shed pit buildings, the track surface looked like back roads! I have seen the fifties and sixties, and I started watching in the late eighties, but this period is new to me.
Can I get this stuff, or at least season highlights of the decade on Video..?
Did anybody else catch it?
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