Oh the glamour. ABBA drummer Slim Borgudd was a non-qualifier for ATS. The winner takes it all, eh?
GRAND PRIX PHOTO, MIKE DOODSON
Forty-two years ago, staging a Formula 1 race in Las Vegas was yet another example of Bernie Ecclestone’s fabled ingenuity. By 1981, to be exporting grand prix racing to a start-up venue in a dusty car park alongside a casino-hotel in the Nevada desert emphasised that the Little Big Man had broken the grip that the owners of the classic European circuits had held on the governance of the sport only a decade or so earlier.