The excellent motorsportretro web site published this brilliant and extremely moving BBC documentary this morning. It details the appalling loss of life that characterised the 1960’s world of Formula One grand prix racing. It’s a long movie, nearly an hour, but, if you want to see where we’ve come from and why we’re here, watch it and be shocked and saddened and angered at the horrific cost that being involved in the sport during those days extracted from the participants and their friends and families. As one who lived through that era and remembers the names and the tragic circumstances in which they met their end, I can tell you that I found it very hard to contain my emotions watching this clip.