grumpyf1

Hello. My name is Peter, and I’m addicted to Formula 1. It’s been one week since I got my last fix, and it was a vintage one... Last weekend we headed into Ambleside to watch the Formula 1 movie “Rush”, directed by Ron Howard. The afternoon could have started better, but a traffic incident and a bent car are all part of living in Cumbria, right? The film recreates the drama of the 1976 season, where James Hunt and Nikki Lauda battled it out for the title, with dramatic results along the way, including a fiery near-death experience for Lauda, which saw him given the last rites in his hospital bed, before returning to the track just six weeks later. Although I am hideously old nowadays, I hadn’t even reached double figures when the events flashing by on the screen took place, but my enthusiasm for the heady world of fast cars has allowed me to become pretty knowledgeable on the era, and the look, fashions, attitudes and styles of the period are certainly ones I can relate to fr...