Not that anyone noticed, but I dropped off the board a couple of months ago for a variety of reasons. While gone form he board I found an album of old pictures when on a vacation back to the UK. Some of them were from the 1992 Spa Grand Prix where I was fortunate enough to have a pit pass provided by what was then the Tyrrell F1 team. Tyrrell have since morphed via British American Racing to Honda F1 to Brawn F1 to what is the Mercedes F1 team. Seeing as this weekend is Spa I thought I sign back in and post what I have.

How did I get the pit pass? Back in 1992 I worked in the test lab for a company called IAD (International Automotive Design, google IAD 'Alien', Yamaha OXY99 (code name Madonna) and the first running NA Miata prototype) IAD had a 4 post shaker rig and we did some damper feedback testing for Tyrrell, so they lent a friend and myself a couple of pit passes for the weekend. They were the kind of passes where officious looking security people stood in your way as you obviously weren’t' meant to be there, but one flash of the pass and they apologized deeply and held the gate open for you wondering which millionaire’s scruffy kid I must have been.

Anyway, onto a few pics.