TREMAYNE: Four decades ago McLaren arrived at Zandvoort on the brink of a new era is history about to repeat itself?

Formula 1 race teams have neither the time nor the inclination to reminisce; the next race is always the most important. But for those of us whose job it is to look back as well as record the present (and now and then try to guestimate the future), theres an air of familiarity about McLarens status this weekend in Zandvoort that takes me back to the 1984 race at the Dutch circuit.