Bring Back V10s - Classic F1 stories
Bring Back V10s celebrates a classic era when Formula 1 was loud on the track and off it. Join host Glenn Freeman and a range of guests as they take a deep-dive into a golden age of F1 from 1989 to 2005, when superstars like Schumacher, Senna, Mansell and Prost were thrilling fans and rising talents like Alonso, Button and Raikkonen were establishing themselves as modern greats. Go back in time as we recall information you might have forgotten and unearth previously unknown details about some fascinating tales from F1's history.
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S3 E4: 1999 French GP - Jordan strikes again
SPECIAL GUEST: Mike Gascoyne!
Former Jordan technical director Mike Gascoyne joins Glenn Freeman and Edd Straw for a look back at Jordan's second F1 win in the 1999 French Grand Prix. We'll hear stories of what made the team's '99 car a step up from...
67 min
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S3 E3: French GP 1989 - Prost quits McLaren, fi...
Alain Prost won the 1989 French Grand Prix, but was what was far more significant that weekend was his announcement that he was leaving McLaren at the end of the year. Edd Straw and Sam Smith join Glenn Freeman to discuss everything that was going on...
64 min
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S3 E2: Nurburgring 1995 - Schumacher stuns Alesi
Michael Schumacher put in one of his greatest F1 drives on home soil in 1995, snatching victory from Jean Alesi's Ferrari in the closing stages after bringing down a gap that at one stage was more than 40 seconds. Edd Straw and Matt Beer join Glenn...
66 min
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S3 E1: Jenson Button's breakout year in 2004
SPECIAL GUEST: David Richards
Former BAR team principal David Richards joins Glenn Freeman and Scott Mitchell to kick off series three of Bring Back V10s with an in-depth look at Jenson Button's superb 2004 season. We revisit how Richards changed the...
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Special episode: Bring Back V8s!
A festive present from Bring Back V10s: We receive plenty of requests to talk about the V8 era of F1 from 2006-2013, so for a one-off special, we've taken questions about those years from our readers on the-race.com.
Mark Hughes and Edd Straw, who...
63 min
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S2 E12: More of your #BringBackV10s F1 question...
Series two of Bring Back V10s ends with us taking more of your questions about anything to do with F1 from 1989-2005. Edd Straw and Karun Chandhok return to tackle subjects including Damon Hill's prospects if he'd signed for McLaren in 1998, memorable...
64 min
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S2 E11: Your #BringBackV10s F1 questions answer...
It's nearly the end of our second series, and once again we were overloaded with questions for our final episode... so we've split it into two parts! Gary Anderson and Mark Hughes join Glenn Freeman to get stuck into subjects ranging from Dario...
57 min
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S2 E10: Inside the chaos of F1's Indianapolis 2...
For the final regular episode of series 2 of Bring Back V10s we're revisiting the most-requested topic we've had since the show started: The shambolic six-car US GP of 2005.
Special guest Dieter Gass - currently head of Audi Motorsport but...
63 min
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S2 E9: Spa 2000 - with Mika Hakkinen!
Mika Hakkinen joins us to look back at one of his most famous battles with Michael Schumacher, which was decided by an iconic overtake in the closing stages. Mika joins Glenn Freeman and Edd Straw to discuss the whole race in great detail, from...
81 min
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S2 E8: Toyota's controversial year on the F1 si...
SPECIAL GUEST: ALLAN McNISH. Toyota managed to fall out with its rival teams and the FIA before it even started racing in F1 in 2002. In this episode we look back at the year Toyota spent testing in 2001 before it joined the grid, and the decision...
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S2 E7: How Benetton snatched Schumacher from Jo...
Michael Schumacher's F1 debut lasted only a few seconds, yet he made a huge impression and by the time of his second appearance he'd already switched teams. In this episode Glenn Freeman is joined by Jordan designer Gary Anderson and Edd Straw to...
66 min
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S2 E6: How Montoya burst onto the F1 scene in 2001
Juan Pablo Montoya arrived in Formula 1 in 2001 after two sensational years in America where he claimed the CART title as a rookie in 1999 and won the Indianapolis 500 at the first attempt in 2000. In this episode Glenn Freeman and Mark Hughes are...
68 min
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S2 E5: Two crazy weeks in F1 history - 1993 Por...
The 1993 Portuguese Grand Prix fell in the middle of two of the busiest weeks for off-track stories in Formula 1 history. Ex-F1 driver and Sky Sports expert Karun Chandhok joins Glenn Freeman and Edd Straw to look back at all the big talking points...
85 min
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S2 E4: Ferrari's Austria 2002 team orders contr...
Austria 2002 remains an iconic moment in Formula 1 history... for all the wrong reasons. In this episode of Bring Back V10s we look back at everything that went on around that race, from why Ferrari was so dominant in 2002, how McLaren and Williams...
64 min
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S2 E3: France 1990 - How Prost denied Newey his...
The 1990 French Grand Prix was the setting for one of the most remarkable turnarounds in F1 history. The plucky Leyton House team went from failing to qualify for the previous race in Mexico to coming within a couple of laps of winning at Paul Ricard...
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S2 E2: Honda's aborted 1999 F1 team
Honda nearly entered F1 with its own full works team in 2000, and in preparation for that it ran a test car in early 1999 with Jos Verstappen behind the wheel. The project was part of its evaluation of an F1 project, but two months after the car ran...
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S2 E1: Ayrton Senna's final Brazilian GP
Season two of #BringBackV10s is here! The wait is over, and we're kicking things off with our first episode dedicated to Ayrton Senna. Rather than choose one of the obvious Senna stories to look back at, we're reflecting on his final Brazilian GP in...
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SEASON 2 NEWS (+ 1990s McLaren team orders chat)
Bring Back V10s is... back! Season 2 is almost here, and to get you ready for our first full episode Glenn Freeman and Edd Straw get together for a quick chat about team orders at McLaren between Mika Hakkinen and David Coulthard in the late-1990s....
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S1 E11: More of your #BringBackV10s F1 question...
BONUS EPISODE: It's series finale time, and to celebrate #BringBackV10s taking a temporary break before series 2, we're answering more of your questions about F1 from 1989-2005. Mark Hughes and ex-F1 technical director and car designer Gary Anderson...
64 min
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S1 E10: Your #BringBackV10s F1 questions answer...
We've reached the end of the first series of Bring Back V10s, but we've been so overwhelmed with the number of questions you sent in using #BringBackV10s that we're turning our series finale into a double header! Edd Straw and Matt Beer join Glenn...
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S1 E9: Schumacher v Hill - 1994's controversial...
Michael Schumacher's 1990s rivalry with Damon Hill ignited at the end of the 1994 Formula 1 season. In this episode Andrew van de Burgt and Edd Straw join Glenn Freeman to look back at the final three races of '94, when Schumacher returned from his...
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S1 E8: The backmarker madness of F1's pre-quali...
At the start of our Bring Back V10s era in 1989, Formula 1 had as many as 39 cars turning up trying to get onto a 26-car grid for a grand prix. After an initial pre-qualifying elimination process was introduced for the first practice session in 1988,...
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S1 E7: Mansell at McLaren - what went wrong
Nigel Mansell and McLaren never felt like a match made in heaven, and when they joined forces in 1995 the alliance was short-lived. Sam Smith and Jack Benyon join Glenn Freeman to discuss why this partnership went so wrong. How did Mansell go from...
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S1 E6: Ferrari's 2005 disaster
The dominance of Ferrari and Michael Schumacher came to an abrupt end in 2005, when rule changes caught the team out and left it struggling to get on the pace. Glenn Freeman is joined by Mark Hughes and Scott Mitchell to look back at the factors...
59 min
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S1 E5: How Jordan nearly won the 1999 F1 world ...
In late 1999 the combination of Jordan and Heinz-Harald Frentzen was at the peak of its powers, and it so nearly pulled off a world championship upset against the might of McLaren and Ferrari. Glenn Freeman is joined by Matt Beer and Edd Straw to...
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