Nigel Roebuck: Fifth Column
"The essence of F1 is speed of reaction. Better to be in a speedboat than a liner"
'Speed costs money - how fast do you want to go?' At Indianapolis in the 1950s, this was something of a slogan, and in those days it had some validity.
Virtually all the teams ran similar cars - front-engined roadsters built by Watson or Kurtis or Kuzma, powered by the legendary four-cylinder Offenhauser - and most were owned by wealthy individuals for whom racing was a hobby.
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