I've been a fan of Formula One auto racing since 1962, after encountering Road & Track magazine, Robert Daley's Cars at Speed, and Avalon Hill's "Le Mans" board game. News of that kind of racing was hard to come by in Southern California back then; I would phone the sports desk of the Los Angeles Times late on Sunday afternoon and badger them to read the first few finishers.

I attended the US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen several times from 1969 through 1975, driving out and back overnight from Illinois for a short weekend, and again in 1978 - 80 while living in Ithaca and Rochester. I haven't been to a Grand Prix since - Montréal isn't that far, but it just hasn't happened - but I continue to follow the sport closely (thank you, ESPN). I was a moderator of, and maintained the periodic Frequently Answered Questions (FAQ) posting for, the now-moribund newsgroup rec.autos.sport.f1.moderated; the final copy of the FAQ can be found online.

Eighty-six years of Grand Prix history: my collection of 1/43 scale Grand Prix cars (plus one outlier*), from Tazio Nuvolari's German GP-winning Alfa Romeo P3 (1935) to Pierre Gasly's AlphaTauri AT01-Honda, shock winner of the 2020 Italian GP (full-size image):