---
title: "Put These Sixties Formula 1 Cars in Your Earholes"
description: "Stop what you're doing and listen."
date: "2015-09-23"
modified: "2015-09-23"
authors:
  - name: "Max Prince"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/max-prince"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/276/put-these-sixties-formula-1-cars-in-your-earholes"
categories:
  - "F1"
  - "News"
  - "Racing"
---

# Put These Sixties Formula 1 Cars in Your Earholes

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The Sixties. Hell of a decade. That unique momentum behind the music and politics and literature, it all seemed inexhaustible. And the racing wasn’t too shabby, either.

Formula 1 was entering a new Golden Age, and British record label MFP took note. It released a five-track vinyl LP, *Exciting Racing Sounds of Grand Prix—Challenge of Champions*, in 1967. For motorsport dweebs (read: “us”), it’s the stuff of legend. The illustrious Phil Hill narrates audio from a handful of Grands Prix, including Monaco, Spa and Brands Hatch. Oh, and [Monza](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/195/mario-andretti-and-the-brutal-magic-of-monza>), too.

Brabham’s Repco. Clark’s Lotus. Ginther’s Honda. Surtees’ Maserati. They’re all here, and at 2m36s, the track switches to a tape recorder riding on Michael Parkes’ Ferrari. The ensuing two-plus-minutes is just pure, unadulterated Maranello V12. It is the best. Put it in your earholes. Now.

https://youtube.com/embed/di-TvOAaVug

*Got some free time? Listen to* Exciting Racing Sounds of Grand Prix *in its entirety, [here](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qw7Ius3Qfc>).*

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