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Motor Racing at the BBC: That Petrol Emotion

William Naylor

Francis Welch

Motor Racing at the BBC: That Petrol Emotion: Episode 3

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A look at the undoubted golden age for British Formula One drivers that was the 1960s.

Series celebrating the glory days of British motor racing. The 1960s saw quiet Scot Jim Clark and debonair Englishman Graham Hill regularly lording it over the world championship.

The 'Rock 'n' Roll Years' of Formula One archive series reaches the undoubted golden age for British drivers that was the 1960s. This was when a quiet Scot, Jim Clark, and a debonair Englishman, Graham Hill, could be regularly relied on to lord it over the world championship. As they swinged their way through the rankings, Britain beyond the paddock was swinging its way through the Sixties. And the BBC was on hand to link the glitz and the glamour of grand prix racing to the aspirations of a growing audience of 'petrolheads' with the magazine show Wheelbase - a blokeish forerunner of Top Gear.

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