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[Amphicar]

It's not the final results, it's the entry list. Seems to be from 1967 though: http://formula2.net/F367_E65.htm (the names, cars and entry numbers are all consistent with Jvr's list)

Yes - though the driver captions for Hill and Clark are still wrong.

[KWSN - DSM]

I'm not sure why some people even bother with F1. If you want perfect, plain "racing", there is NASCAR, side by side for hours and hours, lots of "passing".

 

I loved Hockenheim.  The essence of F1 is ROAD RACING, the juxtaposition of RACE CARS in places that have CHARACTER.

 

This is the soul of F1!  It's not "good racing", it's *hoping to see good racing* in an unusual setting!  Monaco compared to Talladega as a "good racing track"?  No - but when a good race breaks out at Monaco that is a sublime thing.   It's sublime because it's NOT designed to have artificial inducements. Rubens drive at Hockenheim in the rain was stellar, wonderful to watch.  The same effort at a Tilkedrome - not memorable, not as interesting.

 

But I'm sure, some won't get that notion at all....

 

Those old tracks - pictures of racing at Crystal Palace, Montjeuic, the banking at Monza, Reims, Avus - these were *places*, UNUSUAL places, that lent an air of transcendent surreality to the event of "car racing". You could line all of the drivers up in karts and let them "race" side by side on an oval.  Is that what a Formula 1 Grand Prix Racing fan wants?

 

I hope not.

 

Wonderful post, exactly what the commercial rights holder and everyone in control have lost sight of. That /||\  is Formula one.

 

[KWSN - DSM]

This likely do not belong here, but with the enthusiasm we have been looking backwards in this thread, I plop it anyway.

 

 

http://en.wikipedia....Fiat_S76_Record

 

[Lotus72b]

Great thread, but depressing at the same time.

[DaftTrunk]

If you walk around Montjuic Park in Barcelona now, it's difficult to believe there could ever have been an F1 race track there

 

 

 

Yup, to me is one of the best urban tracks that have ever existed. Except for the roundabout, you can drive in the same layout as F1 drivers did in the 70's:

 

[anbeck]

A German website has some photos of the Autodromo de Sitges Terramar, apparently the third European permanent race track (after Brooklands and Monza).

 

Article:

http://www.spiegel.d...-a-1031354.html

 

Photos:

http://www.spiegel.d...cke-126340.html