Seventy-three years of Grand Prix history: my collection of 1/43 scale Grand Prix cars, from Tazio Nuvolari's German GP-winning Alfa Romeo P3 (1935) to the McLaren MP4/22-Mercedes in which Lewis Hamilton scored his first win (Canada, 2007).

I've been a fan of Formula One auto racing since encountering Road & Track magazine, John Daley's Cars at Speed, and Avalon Hill's "Le Mans" board game in the early 1960's. 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, Speed Channel). I am a moderator of, and maintain the periodic Frequently Answered Questions (FAQ) posting for, the newsgroup rec.autos.sport.f1.moderated; a recent copy of the FAQ can be found online.