You were there: 1988 Monaco Grand Prix
Bob Sheppey had a friend working for TV-am at the 1988 Monaco GP who got him tickets, allowing him full access during practice. That was the year of Ayrton Senna’s sublime qualifying lap – and then his super-rare error, crashing out of the lead. Bob says he was a novice snapper – but he did just fine

Senna rated his qualifier here as perhaps his finest lap ever

Ligier of René Arnoux splashes through the qualifying damp. His Judd V8 would fail on the warm-up forcing him to start in the spare, which also died

Riccardo Patrese watches timing readouts from the cockpit of his Williams-Judd to see if his qualifying slot is safe

Mauricio Gugelmin retired his Leyton House with a fuel problem

Gerhard Berger threads the Armco on his way to second

Derek Warwick was on form in the race, bringing his Arrows-Megatron home a fine fourth

German driver Bernd Schneider’s Zakspeed was one of four entries that failed to qualify

Satoru Nakajima, with Peter Warr of Lotus, looks happy enough although he would fail to qualify

In the F3 support Damon Hill finished sixth in his Ralt

Nelson Piquet at the centre of the Camel Lotus pit

Paul Warwick, brother of Derek, also had Camel sponsorship in his Eddie Jordan F3 Ralt
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