Flashback...
For two decades Maurice Hamilton reported from the F1 paddock with pen, notebook and Canon Sure Shot camera. This month we are at the 1983 Monaco Grand Prix as Theodore Racing’s weekend comes to an abrupt end in pre-qualifying
FOR ALL ITS VITALITY AND RAZZAMATAZZ, Monaco can seem a solitary and hostile place. Particularly at around 8.30am on the first day of practice in 1983. As prequalifying got under way, I joined a handful of spectators by the wall overlooking Tabac. I was a motor sport reporter for a British newspaper and I needed to check the progress of Derek Warwick as he hefted the Toleman-Hart around the streets in an attempt to earn a place among the 26 cars allowed into official practice.