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Originally Posted by Otter74
I used to read the race reports from Rob Walker and I don't remember who else in R&T in the later 80s and early 90s. I really enjoyed that. Then I lost interest when F1 started turning into high-speed lapping parades. If I could go back to old-school reports like those again, I'd probably enjoy it.
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Innes Ireland was another, but RW was the best, especially when Mario was driving F1. There seemed to be a comfortable rapport between the two, (Walker and Andretti) with discussions of qualifying, the size of Ronnie Peterson's gonads vis a vis going flat stick into the Parabolica, backgammon games and brownies that his wife Betty would bring to the races. IIRC, Betty would also sit on the pit wall and fill out lap charts, that would occasionally be used by the stewards to settle discrepancies, but I might be commingling reminisces.