Heritage and heroism, glamour, glitz and guts – there's no other race that blends all of those attributes into so intoxicating a brew as the Monaco Grand Prix. And as F1 makes its annual pilgrimage to one of its most historically-significant venues, we have taken another step towards giving fans unparalleled access to the sport's greatest moments...

Through the acquisition of a huge resource of film footage from the 1970s and beyond, fans will soon be able to access video of some of the sport's true legends in their glory years. From Mario Andretti to Niki Lauda, Ronnie Peterson to Emerson Fittipaldi and from James Hunt to Jody Scheckter, they're all there and they'll all soon be available to both F1 TV Pro and F1 TV Access subscribers

Until now, our archive collection was made up of footage gained from the national host broadcaster – the company which filmed the race at each circuit – for every race on the calendar from 1981 to 2001.

Then, F1 took over the entire TV production, originating and distributing the International Feed worldwide, so our archive continued to grow whilst being digitised.

Now, to add to that already-impressive and burgeoning collection, F1 has secured the Brunswick archive, the biggest archive of pre-1981 material.