Formula One Features — May 2007

With a certain young British driver openly stating that he believes he can win this year's race at his first attempt, anticipation about the Monaco GP is more intense than ever.

It was at the Jarama circuit on the outskirts of Madrid that Mike Doodson first 'worked' officially at a Formula 1 race. As he recounts here, it wasn't actually an F1 car that he tended, and the race was a non-championship event. But for him it was the start of something that has obsessed him ever since. And, as he prepares to travel to Barcelona for this year's race, he realises it all happened nearly 40 years ago ...