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Letter: Tony Brooks obituary

26-Jun-2022 14:47:30 | The Guardian

I first met Tony Brooks (obituary, 5 May) in 1958 when he won the Belgian Grand Prix in a Vanwall at Spa, where I was filming the race for the Castrol Oil company. Live broadcasts were rare then, and just recently I gave him a DVD copy of it.

Tony once told me that in his day racing was a psychological challenge, and one small error could be your last. Those were the days when tracks were lined with trees, telegraph poles and ditches, before the introduction of Armco crash barriers.