Denny Hulme and Brian Hart hadn’t seen each other for years when they met on the quayside in Monaco in 1986. Hulme, in the cap, as a retired world champion, was making a rare appearance. Hart, a quick driver in his day, had recently become redundant as an F1 engine supplier when Haas-Lola switched from the Hart four-cylinder 415T to the longawaited Ford-Cosworth turbo V6.
These two racers found plenty to talk about. At Zolder in August 1964, for example, Hulme had won the Limbourg Grand Prix in a works Brabham, with Hart finishing third for Ron Harris Team Lotus. That F2 race in Belgium had been but one stopping point during a typical summer spent happily crisscrossing Europe: Karlskoga one weekend; Enna the next.