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Only Monza has featured continuously on the F1 calendar for longer than the Hungaroring, which has hosted the Hungarian Grand Prix every year since 1986.

• Credits: Károly Méhes conducted the interviews and contributed to the article.

• All 1986 Hungarian Grand Prix photos © Tamás Viola.

Tamás Rohonyi is a Hungarian-born businessman, good friend of Bernie Ecclestone and was promoter of the Brazilian Grand Prix for many years.

Here he recounts how he helped bring Formula 1 to Budapest in the mid 1980s. The first race attracted 200,000 fans from all over the Eastern Bloc.

“Bernie Ecclestone was interested in staging a race in the Soviet Union.

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He visited Moscow in the early 1980s, but it was grey and depressing, and he could see that the Soviets were not in a position to host an F1 race. Ecclestone’s wife at the time, Slavica, also suggested a race in Yugoslavia, where she came from.