amazing stories, you can see one of the helicopters I guess in the background of Pironi's shunt at Hockenhiem 1982 here:-
One other motor racing story that is in my mind comes from the 1982 season.
Giles Villenueve got wiped out at Zolder and there is a piece in a book that talks about how the following day, once all the circus had moved on the only thing left in the paddock was the helicopter Gilles had flown in with. It must have been a grim task collecting it, anyone know who had his helicopter after that?