This was the year we moved to L.A., and you were getting up in the middle of the night to watch F1 races. I wasn't following F1 with you at the time, but I agree this era produced some of the most pleasingly aesthetic cars, as drivers moved a bit further back and long before vehicles were festooned with today's countless winglets. In retrospect, it's also the beginning of the end of the F1 car sharing paradigms with road cars. Stick shifters, non-sequential transmissions, a dashboard with mechanical tach, will soon give way to an ever-increasing technological battle which challenges and to some degree diminishes the role of the driver.
This also represents the end of the age before the massive commercialization of the entire F1 circus - when pit crew didn't wear matching clothes, and teams didn't bring $200M structures with them to every race.
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Cool stuff! And that's maybe my favorite GP car of all time.
http://www.race-cars.com/carsold/other/1057690263/1057690263pp.htm
This was the year we moved to L.A., and you were getting up in the middle of the night to watch F1 races. I wasn't following F1 with you at the time, but I agree this era produced some of the most pleasingly aesthetic cars, as drivers moved a bit further back and long before vehicles were festooned with today's countless winglets. In retrospect, it's also the beginning of the end of the F1 car sharing paradigms with road cars. Stick shifters, non-sequential transmissions, a dashboard with mechanical tach, will soon give way to an ever-increasing technological battle which challenges and to some degree diminishes the role of the driver.
This also represents the end of the age before the massive commercialization of the entire F1 circus - when pit crew didn't wear matching clothes, and teams didn't bring $200M structures with them to every race.
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