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The mid 80s were a very exciting time.....and the 'feuds' were real....
Qualifying was an event in itself....remember the BMW turbo 'genade engines?'...those old 320 block (4 cylinder untis) with a monster turbo... 1.5 litres capacity and 'rumoured' to deliver 1500hp in quali trim....for a single lap go for it.......
Makes the current format 'tame'... all of htis with a manual gearchange, no TC, ABS etc etc.. but slicks and real wings.
It was a different era... different priorities and paradigms.....
It was more exciting, mainly becuase there were more variables....driver error was far more common... Senna at Monaco? Missed the entrance to the tunnel.. span; parked up and went home......Ron Dennis was less than impressed....not that he crashed.. but that he went home....brilliamt stuff..
Prost and Senna... one driving a McClaren car with a Honda engine, the other driving a Honda engine in a McClaren car....and they raced... no rules, no orders..just race.
Same as Mansell and Piquet at Williams... so much so that they lost the Drivers' Championship to Prost...
But the cars today are awesome...the professionalism, the striving for perfection....the ambition etc etc.. a different excitement...a different level...
Its exciting still, but its very different.
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