The race was the French GP of 1959, at Rheims, and the winner was Tony Brooks in a 2.5-litre Ferrari Dino V6.
The "paddock" was a stretch of knobbly cow pasture at an angle of ten degrees from the horizontal and the "pits" were tiny stalls made from scaffolding poles with rush matting for a roof.
French motorsport owes a tremendous debt of gratitude to the eccentric millionaire Paul Ricard, who opened his privately-financed permanent circuit near Toulon in 1971.
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