Today I watched an exciting race with an amusingly silly crash, with Lotuses and McLarens way down the order compared to recent years and a Williams fighting hard near the front.
That's where the similarities with the Spanish GP end. I was watching the Historic GP race at Monaco on Motors TV. No idea if they've got the rights to the whole series of races or if this was a one-off, but it was highly entertaining (even though I missed the first few laps)
The cars were all from 1973-78 and the race was won by a late-period Hesketh (!) with Penthouse / Rizla livery. 2nd was an ex-Alex Ribeiro March (with 'Jesus will save you' or somesuch on the rear wing!!!) followed by a Wolf-Williams.
In 4th place was....Jean-Denis Deletraz. Joy of joys, he was driving the Durex liveried Surtees. After he overtook Katsu Kubota in an ex-Ronnie Peterson March, Kubota was so embarassed that he promptly spun off for no apparent reason and totalled the car into the wall. This was at almost exactly the same spot that Barrichello went off in the Williams in 2010.
I must go to one of these races one day, I'd love to see all those wonderful cars, in the days when branding was all fags, booze, condoms and porn.
Deletraz is back!
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The historic Monaco GP is rich in reject history. As per his profile, Alex Yoong once finished 2nd in a Lotus.
Watka - you know, the swimming horses guy
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Is there a video of the race? I'd like to see just what Deletraz was doing... 
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If you can get Motors TV, it's bound to be on again sooner or later, they don't carry much live motorsport (just the stuff that no other channels want!)