F1: THE BEGINNING
“EARLY GRAND PRIX DRIVERS WERE EITHER BRAVE OR DAFT AS LAMP POSTS”
obody mentioned the core strength and the bruises. That’s all I can think as I barrel hell for leather through a long left-hander in a single-seater Fifties Grand Prix car without the comfort or security of seatbelts. Of course, belts are actually fitted, I just want to try and ape the sensations of GP drivers from way back when. The kind of men – and yes, it was pretty much exclusively men back then – for whom getting ‘thrown clear’ in the event of an
