Things I'll never forget... I was in the timing tower when Piquet qualified on pole in '84. That Brabham clocked 331km/h down the straight and, quite literally, shook the tower itself. To this day, the '83 BT52 and the '84 BT53 are my favourite F1 race cars ever.
In '85, I was in pit lane when Mansell stopped for tyres... No tyre warmers back then so they threw on new tyres that still had stickers on 'em. Mansell spun them up to get some heat in the tyres as he left his pit box and I remember those stickers being thrown off with such force they cleared the top of the spectator grand stands on the pit lane roof.