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Originally Posted by Kicking-back
Nintendo - I note from your profile you were born two years after the Osterreichring last hosted a Grand Prix.
Don't fall into the trap of thinking everything before your time was marvellous and everything you can remember is rubbish.
There can be a romanticism of things we never experienced first hand.
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On this occasion though, Nintendo's right I believe. It was an exciting track to watch an F1 race and produced some amazing races, particularly finishes. The Bosch curve was a pretty awesome piece of tarmac too, something a lot of drivers of the time missed after 1987. It was very dangerous too, one of the reasons it was dropped I believe. The old Österreichring claimed the life of Mark Donohue during practice in 1975. In a strange twist of fate, John Watson, who took Mark's place in the Penske, went on to win his first GP there a year later.