Or timing and scoring done by wives and girlfriends of the drivers? Or bringing your F1 car on the back of a VW flat bed truck like Pete Lovely did? Or not using seat belts (let alone a harness)? Or racing in a magnesium tub (that could catch fire if, for example it scraped the ground when a tire went flat, and be impossible to put out) like Dan Gurney did? Or drive in a car surrounded by fuel bladders that ruptured in an accident like all of them did? Or have an average of one driver die during the season?
F1, and all racing, has changed A LOT over the years! The facilities are much better, the technology is amazing and thankfully, it is much safer! Now, if the cars were not so ugly and could look as good as they used to!