Motor Racing at the BBC: That Petrol Emotion

Formula One’s ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Years’ archive series enters the 1970s. This was the era of three-time world champion Jackie Stewart, but also of the topless Pirelli calendar – much ogled over by the BBC’s ‘motoring correspondents’ in archive sequences from another world. The mood darkens, though, when Graham Hill, the gentleman giant of British grand prix racing, is killed in a freak plane crash and another British driver, Roger Williamson, is filmed dying trackside in his mangled, blazing car.