When the Austrian Grand Prix made its world championship debut back in 1964, few would have expected it to be a calendar fixture more than 60 years later. The dreary L-shaped layout of the temporary track on Zeltweg airfield did little to sell anybody on a return to the area.
Zeltweg briefly held on for sportscar races, but the grand prix circus only returned in 1970 after a permanent track, the Osterreichring, was built nearby – chiefly thanks to the star power of the home hero, Jochen Rindt.
