Reddit mentions of I Just Made the Tea: Tales from 30 years inside Formula 1

Thanks for another interesting read Rob.

Watching that 1997 ITV promotional video got me thinking that it was really ITV that changed the game of F1 broadcasting in the UK - and possibly other places too. Everything you enjoyed from the BBC and currently enjoy from Sky/Channel 4 was an evolution of what ITV started. They were the first to do pre and post shows live from each circuit. The gridwalk started there (Martin has said the grid was pretty empty of journalists when he started, now everyone does it), and the more in-depth features and analysis all started with ITV, including Brundle getting to drive F1 cars and having a live pitlane reporter covering strategy. Maybe it was already like that in some other countries, but everything you see from the UK broadcasters has ITV DNA running through it.

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>When I started you could probably count the number of women in the paddock on the fingers of two hands, maybe three. A lot of them were working in motorhomes, sometimes it was a husband and wife team

I really recommend this
book by Di Spears who ran one of those husband and wife catering businesses. She has lots of great stories from the paddock from the 70's, 80's and 90's when the paddock was smaller and close-knit. She was well liked by drivers and team members and because a bit of a mother figure/kind listener for many of them.