Last weekend, as part of its F1 Classics series, Star Select broadcast three GP races from the 1980s - Monte Carlo 1984, Jerez 1986 and Hungaroring 1989. To those who only read about and saw photos of F1 in the 1980s, before they were shown here in the mid-1990s, the sport appeared suffused with glamour, money, European royalty - and fast cars.
These F1 classics were a glimpse of the decade before the explosion of global sport through satellite television. The three GPs showed the undercarriage of this ludicrously-imagined caravan: its nuts, bolts, oilspills, blown tyres and busted radiators as well as the dangers that casually lay strewn around every corner.