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Shame about the catch fence visible

Great to have known this fella for the last 40 years

Ayrton grabbed my bike at Monza to have a race with Mauricio Gugelmin around the track.

I'd been racing Mauricio, who was on a one speed shopping bike.

...he beat me! And then Senna called me and said, "Give me your bike," and chased after Mauricio, who had started another lap. He obviously won that race!!

My kids with a couple of decent F1 drivers a few years ago......be hard to top these pictures!!

I thought I’d share this one with the group.
I was serving aboard HMS Amazon 1986.
We’d stopped in Adelaide same time as the F1

This is our pilot racing Nelson Piquet, in a Williams car 1 lap around the track iirc.

All over a dare during a cocktail party.
I doubt this would happen nowadays.

Piquet won by the way.

The day we sold Martin Brundle's race suit over the pit wall in Adelaide...

I worked in the Formula One paddock during the 1980s and 1990s, and one of the strangest traditions in Australia was fans buying drivers' old race clothing over the pit wall after the race...

Martin didn't qualify for the 1991 Grand Prix in the Brabham Yamaha, so was out of action by Saturday afternoon.

Around 4.00pm, the drivers in the Formula Ford support race were on the grid, and I spotted the driver in front of our garage wearing Brundles race suit!! One of the mechanics had sold it to this guy within an hour of the end of qualifying!

I have hundreds of stories like this!!

Anything you want to ask about F1 back in the Crazy days, I was in the paddock, so fire away 😂

Back in 1988 on the grid before the race, and before we threw Capelli into the crowd to make a few dollars after the race!!

A picture that I had taken with Ayrton in Mexico, and he signed it in Adelaide at the next race