I´d rather prefer to drive a vintage F1 car, but I´d be extremelly carefull as those cars were far from safe in case of an accident
Problem is today we´re used to a very different safety standard.
Think about this analogy, the air conditioner of my car is broken, and here in spain we´re close to 40ºC. When the car has been parked in the sun it is so stifling I can´t understand how did I cope with this in my first 10 years with a driving licence when all my cars had no AC
You get used. Back then I didn´t know AC, so it was normal. Today, after enjoing AC for years, now if it breaks it´s way more stifling than it was 20 years back.
Same with safety, in 70s those cars and those tracks where standard, people didn´t know anything better so they were happy with that. It´s not that those drivers had bigger balls than current ones like I read frequently, it was ´normal´ for them. Today, when racing fatalities are far from common, that safety level looks simply unaceptable
I´d prefer driving a vintage F1 car because it´s a vintage F1 car, but if I´d have the oportunity to do some laps with one of those and also an equally fast modern supercar, I´m sure I´d be much faster with the supercar because I´d drive it much more relaxed