TarpleyG, I saw my first F1 race in 1957. I used to go to Jean Behra's AAT bar in Paris, just to quietly gawk at Moss, dePortago, etc. Even managed to get down to Monza for the old "Race of Two Worlds", with Indy cars against F1 on the oval. Went to LeMans in '56 and '57. After coming back to the States, I was at the first FIA 3-hr on the Daytona road course (Dan Gurney; Arciero Lotus 19) and several times at Sebring in the '60s.
I never got to that rarefied atmosphere myownself, but I managed to qualify for the SCCA runoffs, three times. Way back when, of course. FA, and twice in CSR.
Art
"Life begins at 180." Chris Cook, me, and a bunch of other idiots...