Maurice Hamilton

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Flashback: 1988 RAC Rally winner Markku Alén sneaks through hotel kitchen

For many years, I worked in the media centre of the Lombard RAC Rally. After a season spent covering Formula 1, this was always an interesting change of pace and…

Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill’s unlikely chinwag at Suzuka

This was taken through the media centre window at Suzuka in October 1994. The circumstances may not have been conducive to producing a clear image but it was a rare…

Flashback: What happened when the French Resistance met Formula 1

Although you may not recognise him, it is not an exaggeration to say that François Guiter (pictured with Jackie Stewart at Monza in 1990) was one of the most influential…

Brawn, Jordan and Wolf – the Formula 1 newcomers that hit the ground running

You’ve heard the words of caution. Audi, in advance of its Formula 1 arrival in 2026, is already speaking in hushed tones about needing a couple of seasons to gain…

Flashback : September 2024

Flavio Briatore was in the news for reasons good and bad in 1994. Thirty years on, nothing has changed. This is in the Benetton motorhome two days before the 1994…

Flashback: F1 raft race at the 1994 Canadian Grand Prix

It’s a fair bet that those responsible for producing the rowing lake on Montreal’s Île Notre-Dame in time for the 1976 Summer Olympics never envisaged a scene such as this.…

Flashback: Dallara F1 drivers De Cesaris and Caffi on the Monaco pitwall

There’s every chance that the forthcoming Monaco Grand Prix will induce familiar complaints about overtaking. Of all the previous outbursts of indignation created by the narrow track, few can equal…

Flashback: Nelson Piquet escapes Tamburello F1 crash

Much is written in the pages of this month’s magazine about Ayrton Senna’s fatal accident at Imola and the set of circumstances that contrived against him. A further irony is…

Flashback: Jordan’s 1993 F1 telemetry analysis — two laptops

When Formula 1 teams carried out pre-season tests in Bahrain recently, there would have been more people monitoring progress from the factories than at the track. A limit on race…

Flashback: Lotus launches its 1990 F1 car with Warwick and Donnelly

It may have been necessary to leave home at some unearthly hour to reach Ketteringham Hall by 10am, but the trip was worth it. Never having been to the legendary…

Flashback: Toyota’s farmhouse service stop on RAC Rally

Attention at this time of year three decades ago would turn to following the RAC Rally around the classic special stages in Britain’s forests. The problem would always be avoiding…

Eddie Jordan and Jean Alesi boating in Sydney Harbour: Flashback

For nine successive years, the F1 season ended with Suzuka and Adelaide a fortnight apart. Sydney was a favourite place to spend the intervening weekend. This is the afternoon of…

December 2023 Issue

By Maurice Hamilton