Of course they're faster now, but there was something really romantic about that era (I assume your talking about the seventies). It wasn't the sanitized, over regulated, made for TV extravaganza that F1 has become. They were still racing on the classic circuits (Zandvoort, Osterriechring, Kyalami, etc.) not some cookie cutter Tilke track in the Middle Eastern desert somewhere. It wasn't all glorious, some really awful things happened, it was terribly dangerous, but watching the drivers laying it on the line, knowing the risk-reward factor, made it impossible not to be attracted to it.
On a different note, looks like the USGP in Austin has fallen apart, wow, never saw that coming
I think I made the comment when the circuit and race was first announced that I'll believe it when I see cars turning laps, too many people with lots of money and grand ideas, that have no idea how Bernie and his henchmen actually operate. I give the New Jersey race even less chance of actually taking place. Dorna did the smart thing and re-upped their MotoGP contract with IMS, and if Bernie does really want a race in the US, he should go back to the folks at 16th & Georgetown with his cap in his hand and promise not to f**k things up like he did last time. But we all know he won't do that. Why do that when he can convince the dictator of rinky-dink little third world nation, that hosting a GP will make his nation important, for a small fee of course. Travelling to emerging nations, and all that over-used BS that Bernie likes to feed us.
Fax
