Flashback...
A Formula 1 driver in 1990 turning up for a shift in his Renault runabout. As Maurice Hamilton recalls, this was not a normal sight
Here’s Thierry Boutsen calmly parking and stepping out of his Renault in the Mexico City pitlane in readiness for a day’s work. As if! Bernie Ecclestone wouldn’t allow road cars within a mile of his precious paddock – never mind the pitlane – unless, of course, a substantial sum of money had changed hands.