Flashback...
For two decades Maurice Hamilton reported from the F1 paddock with pen, notebook and Canon Sure Shot camera. This month we’re in BMW’s Munich racing department, with an ever-inquisitive Jenks asking about F1 pistons
IT’S 25 YEARS THIS MONTH SINCE MOTOR SPORT’S continental correspondent Denis Jenkinson (DSJ) went off to roam the celestial paddock and meet his old motoring mates. I took this shot in August 1982 during a visit to BMW’s racing department in Munich. Jenks is discussing a piston from the M12/13 F1 engine with an engineer as competitions manager Dieter Stappert looks on. Even though I had commissioned DSJ to write a piece on F1 turbocharging for Autocourse, my main interest lay not with technical talk, but in events before and after the visit.