![]() ![]() Of course it helped matters that the championship went the full 20 rounds, culminating in an even more intense finale than the one four years previously. The sprawling seven-hour high-definition review of the 2012 season marks the high point of recent reviews (the much shorter DVD version is to be avoided). James strikes a suitably remorseful tone but it’s remarkable to see that even as recently as the early eighties it was thought appropriate to include the material to begin with. Two drivers were killed during the 1982 season and both crashes – Gilles Villeneuve in Belgium and Ricardo Paletti in Canada – are shown in the video. ![]() “The Brabham drum majorettes did the dance of the pneumatic wrench,” he intones as Bernie Ecclestone’s crew scamper around Nelson Piquet’s BT52. James narrated three such videos, all of which appear in this list and are littered with his dry-witted gems. In an inspired move, they also hired Clive James – already a well-known author and television critic – to lend his wit to the voiceover. Their first effort was a rather haphazard affair, but for 1982 they hit upon the apparently-not-obvious idea of showing highlights of each round in chronological order. The Formula One Constructors’ Association (now FOM) began producing official season review videos in 1981.
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