How a fine avoidance exercise created a forgotten piece of F1 history

This writer doesn’t profess to know an awful lot about American football. But Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch’s infamous press conference prior to the 2015 Superbowl and Scuderia Italia’s appearance in the 1988 Brazilian Grand Prix bear some similarities.

“I’m just here so I won’t get fined,” was the only answer that Lynch repeatedly gave baffled reporters. And the same could have been said of what can be deemed a token effort from Beppe Lucchini’s Formula 1 newcomer to enter the 1988 season-opener with a car that had floundered in Formula 3000…