Watched the fascinating documentary ‘Grand
Prix: The Killer Years’ on BBC4 last night. By no means am I a big motorsport
fan, and I hadn’t appreciated quite how many F1 drivers died during the late
Sixties and early Seventies. The two most shocking things for me were Roger
Williamson burning to death in his upturned car at the rebuilt and supposedly
safe Zandvoort circuit in Holland in 1973. One rival, David Purley, stopped to
try to rescue him, but the rest just kept racing round the burning wreck,
unchecked by the marshalls. The other was the Grand Prix Drivers Association
calling for improving safety measures at the Nurburgring in Germany, and being
told it wasn’t going to happen and they should get on with the race. Can you
imagine that happening at yesterday’s Spanish Grand Prix? Really excellent
programme, available to watch on the iPlayer.
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