The Dallas Grand Prix only happened once, in the heat of the summer of 1984, and anyone who was there will never forget it for good, and bad, reasons. A classic race, a crumbling track, a threatened boycott and a great read

A bizarre weekend. The inaugural Dallas Grand Prix had many modern F1 ingredients: an unsatisfactory track, a threatened boycott of the race by the drivers, a row about passes, a press conference at which a lot of drivers came across like petulant brats. And all of this in temperatures of more than a hundred degrees.

On Sunday morning the condition of the track surface was nothing less than a disgrace, a blend of crumbling tarmacadam and soft concrete. The warm-up was postponed, then cancelled altogether. The race finally got under way a little late, with no one knowing quite what to expect.

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