Somebody's Super 8MM home movies of the 1968 Monaco GP - practice and the race.

This is very relaxing... and it's silent, somehow even more relaxing.

Were there politics and chicanery back then? Of course, but the filter of 40 years leaves us with mainly just the good memories.

And lest we get too nostalgic, it all looks so dangerous now, for drivers, crew and even apex-standing photographers.

But, boy could they drive...

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPH5ipV9iQg