Everywhere you looked last weekend you were offered a reminder of Fuji's past. With an uncanny symmetry, parallels were effortlessly drawn between Formula 1's first visits to the mighty Speedway in the mid-1970s and its return last weekend, after a 30-year absence.
Maybe it had something to do with the lovably unique way that Japan approaches its motor racing, maybe it was serendipity. Whatever, last weekend's Japanese Grand Prix seemed to intertwine romantic echoes of the past into a paddock that often remains immune to historical sentiment.
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