It feels almost ridiculous now, but for 15 years, the Tasmanian village of Longford hosted some of the fastest cars on the planet. The 7.24 km circuit was made up of public roads that went past a country pub, under a railway viaduct, across a wooden bridge over the South Esk, and somehow convinced Jim Clark, Jackie Stewart, Graham Hill, Bruce McLaren and Jack Brabham to come down to a sleepy town near Launceston and race on them.

This footage from 1964 starts with a hand-drawn map of the lap, complete with corner names like Newry, Tannery, Long Bridge, Mountford and Pub Corner, and then drops us straight into the cockpit. We see telegraph poles a metre off the racing line, weatherboard cottages flicking past, an open-faced helmet bobbing in the corner of the frame. Longford hosted the Australian Grand Prix in 1959 and 1965 and a round of the Tasman Series every year from 1964 to 1968, before closing in 1968 because the cars had simply become too fast for the scenery.