Mike Doodson

Mike will be watching the new Lotus F1 team with a touch of insider interest – he worked for Team Lotus in the 1970s as the sport’s first full-time press officer (though it didn’t stop him writing for the weeklies at the same time). He has been reporting on racing since the ’60s, and it was in the ’80s that he got to know a young driver called Ayrton Senna rather well. Until he plonked his size nine in it…