Why race such old cars?
In 1967 or 1968 I was at the Nürburgring, witnessing a “minor” race. Being an impressionable child the memory has always lingered and when I had the chance to “drive” the virtual Ring myself, more than thirty years later, I was instantly hooked. Moreover, the 1967 racing season introduced much more powerful engines without significantly upgrading the cars themselves to add the safety features that are found on Formula 1 race cars soon thereafter. Today’s Formula 1 race cars are such highly engineered vehicles that they have little in common with the simple but elegant rockets-on-wheels that demanded the utmost in concentration and skill from the driver to keep on the road. The 1967 F1 racing season was the deadliest on record. Some feel that Formula 1 racing has gone downhill since those days and is only a pale shadow of its former glory. It certainly seems to me that the races of those days held more excitement than today’s. In any case for me it’s because of the memories and the
