Bring Back V10s - Classic F1 stories

After our episode on V10s era cult heroes in Season 13, we asked those in The Race Members' Club to submit suggestions for additional 'V10sMen'. The response was incredible, so much so that we're dedicating three follow-up episodes to the submissions, the first of which you can enjoy in this feed as a special bonus.

On this first episode, Glenn is joined by Matt to discuss whether the likes of Mika Salo, Giancarlo Fisichella, Olivier Panis, Johnny Herbert and more meet the criteria to be considered a V10sMan. 

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Another season of Bring Back V10s is coming to an end, and as usual we're rounding things off by handing the power over to our audience to ask us anything about F1's V10 era.

Host Glenn Freeman is joined by Edd Straw and Matt Beer to tackle questions about Gerhard Berger at Williams, classic liveries teams should bring back, which version of Silverstone was the best, Alex Zanardi at BMW Williams, Kimi Raikkonen's 2003 title charge, and remastering V10 era computer games.

Plus, hilarity ensues as Edd gives a ridiculously comprehensive answer when he's asked who would win a championship of the last classified team from each season of the V10 era...

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Bring Back V10s Season 13 has nearly come to a close, but if the thought of going without it scares you, fear not because over in The Race Members' Clubon Patreon the fun is set to continue with the next season of our popular spin-off, Revisited.

In each season of Revisited, Glenn and the gang take a race-by-race look back at an entire season of F1. After covering 1997 and 1993 in the first two series, which season will it be this time? Well, we've drawn up a shortlist of four classic seasons and we're putting the power into the hands of The Race Members' Club to decide which we cover.

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In the meantime, listen in to a spirited discussion in which Glenn, Edd, Matt and Ben each nominate their top seasons for re-exploration and bid for your vote.

As you'll discover, there are a pair of controversial choices in the mix - but which will prevail?

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Bring Back V10s celebrates some key names from F1's V10 era who aren't necessarily remembered purely for their outright achievements behind the wheel.

Before Season 13 draws to a close, we decided to borrow English football's 'Barclaysmen' social media trend, picking out drivers who made a memorable impression on the V10 era without ever really being considered in the top echelon of drivers.

Glenn Freeman, Edd Straw, Matt Beer and Ben Anderson all did their best to grapple with the concept, and got to pick two drivers each. But we didn't share our choices beforehand, meaning everybody needed to bring back-ups.

So get ready for a nostalgic chat about occasional race winners, plucky backmarkers, unlikely title contenders, nomadic journeymen, and - somehow - even an F1 world champion!

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Bring Back V10s looks back on the first two years of the Williams-BMW partnership in 2000 and 2001, with the help of our members!

We asked them what they wanted to know about how this partnership started across its first two years, and from that we created a list of subjects for Glenn Freeman to put to Edd Straw and Mark Hughes to explore what was going on both on track and behind the scenes.

We cover the expectations ahead of BMW's F1 return in 2000, and why there was tension between the two parties from the very beginning. We look at how the first year laid the foundation for the huge step that came from BMW in 2001 with its incredible P80 engine, and if Williams did enough on the car side to hold up its end of the bargain.

We also discuss Williams's three drivers during this time, looking at how Ralf Schumacher and Juan Pablo Montoya fit into the sometimes divided dynamic between team and engine supplier, and wonder what Jenson Button could have achieved if he'd stayed on board for 2001. 

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Bring Back V10s has World Cup fever! With the help of our members, we put together a tournament featuring 32 of the best races from 1989 to 2005, and in this episode you'll hear Edd Straw, Matt Beer and Ben Anderson debate the tournament from the last 16 all the way to the final. The twist? Host Glenn Freeman has the power to deploy a veto once per round if he disagrees with the selection made by the panel!

So get ready to hear Edd pushing too hard for races from 1993, Glenn being torn over how far to push Jerez 1997, Ben basing far too many of his decisions on what happened to Damon Hill in any given race, and Matt saying something nice about Nigel Mansell!

But which race will be declared the overall winner of the Bring Back V10s World Cup?

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Bring Back V10s tackles one of F1's roughest title wins hangovers in episode 6 of season 13, with a look back at the sudden downturn in fortunes for one of the 1990s' elite teams.

Benetton was on top of the world at the end of 1995, having clinched the constructors’ crown and back-to-back drivers’ world titles with Michael Schumacher. But with Schumacher departing for Ferrari in 1996, the team had a new challenge to prove its success wasn’t just about the driver - and it didn't go very well...

Joining Glenn Freeman for a look back at Benetton’s turbulent post-Schumacher period are Matt Beer and Ben Anderson.

They discuss the logic behind choosing Jean Alesi and Gerhard Berger to lead Benetton's new era, how quickly things got fractious behind the scenes and whether this decline was always inevitable no matter who Benetton picked for its life after Schumacher.

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Bring Back V10s drops a couple of cylinders to look back at a famous race from the V8 era: the 2010 Turkish Grand Prix. Glenn Freeman is joined by Edd Straw and Jon Noble, who were both at Istanbul Park that weekend, to look back on a race most famous for Red Bull team-mates Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber wiping each other out while battling for the lead!

As well as analysing the incident we look back on how everyone involved handled it, and why Red Bull couldn't get the situation under control after the race.

McLaren also had a misunderstanding of its own that almost resulted in Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button repeating the Red Bull trick on their way to a 1-2 finish, featuring some pretty animated radio traffic from Hamilton.

Off-track we look back on how Robert Kubica was settling in at Renault, the struggles for the new teams on the grid in 2010, Michelin's late bid to derail Pirelli's 2011 F1 deal, Mercedes' underwhelming start to life as a team owner, and why things looked so bleak for Ferrari at this stage of the season.

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After the sad passing of Alex Zanardi this weekend, we thought it was only right to put together a special episode of Bring Back V10s to pay tribute to a driver that is so fondly remembered by motor racing fans all over the world.

Glenn Freeman is joined by Edd Straw and Matt Beer to look back on Zanardi's incredible life and inspirational career, which included two stints in F1, championship-winning success in CART and, after the devastating crash that left him a double amputee, multiple Paralympic hand-cycling gold medals.

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Bring Back V10s makes a rare venture into the 2002 season to look back on that year's Malaysian Grand Prix.

Glenn Freeman is joined by Matt Beer and Jon Noble to reflect on a result that proved to be a false dawn for the season ahead, plus the collision between Juan Pablo Montoya and Michael Schumacher that earned Montoya F1's first ever drive-through penalty.

Also in the spotlight are Jenson Button's maiden podium near-miss, new BAR boss David Richards taking drastic action to sort the struggling team out, a look at what might be the lowest point in Jaguar's miserable F1 story, Takuma Sato's novel approach to trying to swap positions with Jordan team-mate Giancarlo Fisichella, and the latest antics from the Phoenix 'team' that was trying to get onto the F1 grid with year-old Prost cars, and even older engines.

There's also a suggestion from Jacques Villeneuve that back in 2002 F1 needed to get rid of testing and expand the calendar to up to 25 races a year. Imagine that!

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We have another bonus for you in the feed this week - another episode of the Bring Back V10s debrief, a podcast usually only available to those in The Race Members' Club. Join Glenn Freeman as he tackles questions from listeners about the Senna-Schumacher rivalry, starting with one about how a rivalry between two of F1's biggest stars would have played out in the social media age...

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Bring Back V10s dives into the chaos of May and June 1994 as we look back on that year's Spanish Grand Prix, which came just a month after the tragedies of Imola.

With the world still reeling from the loss of Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger, F1 found itself under fire following further heavy accidents for Pedro Lamy in testing and Karl Wendlinger in Monaco.

Glenn Freeman, Edd Straw and Ben Anderson look at how F1's political landscape exploded during this period, with FIA president Max Mosley seeing an opportunity to force through change, which caused a backlash in some parts of the paddock.

We explore how that spread into the Barcelona weekend, with several teams boycotting first practice, and drivers forcing a terrible chicane made of tyres to be installed on the track.

The weekend also marked David Coulthard's F1 debut as talk of Nigel Mansell returning to Williams dominated the headlines, while Michael Schumacher put in one of his most famous drives to finish second while stuck in fifth gear.

Ahead of Schumacher, Damon Hill claimed a much-needed first win of the season for Williams, which prompted a huge outpouring of emotion within the team after what had been a horrible few weeks for everyone who worked there. 

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Jaguar's terrible first F1 season in 2000 is the subject of episode two of season 13 of Bring Back V10s. Glenn Freeman is joined by two people who worked in the Jaguar F1 system that year: technical director Gary Anderson, and The Race's Andrew van de Burgt, who ran the Jaguar Racing website in 2000!

We look back over the whole year in detail, from the rebrand of Stewart Grand Prix, to high pre-season expectations, problems in testing, and a season that was largely a nightmare on track while Ford created plenty of high-level disruption off-track.

Gary explains what he saw going on behind the scenes and tells the story of how he knew his time was up at the end of the season, plus he gives technical insight on the problems both Jaguar and Cosworth were having for much of the year.

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Bring Back V10s returns! And we're kicking off Season 13 with something a bit different, as we revisit the major flashpoints in the short-lived Ayrton Senna/Michael Schumacher F1 rivalry.

Glenn Freeman, Ben Anderson and Edd Straw dig into the times Senna and Schumacher fell out during their brief spell together on the F1 grid - and yes, that includes Senna's iconic public telling off that he gave Schumacher at the 1992 French Grand Prix while wearing a pastel jumper!

We also explore how their relationship and rivalry appeared to be evolving heading into 1994, and how Schumacher handled the loss of Senna that year, both publicly and in private.

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As preparation for Season 13 of Bring Back V10s accelerates, we thought we'd share a sample of a bit of bonus content we made for The Race Members' Club. After each episode of the regular series, host Glenn Freeman produces a Debrief for The Race Members' Club, where he answers questions relating to the episode. On this occasion, we asked the members for questions about Bring Back V10s itself, and Glenn sat down for over an hour to go through as many questions about the show as he could.

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Following our recent three-part Indycar Split podcast series, we put together a special Q&A episode for The Race Members' Club, with special guest John Oreovicz returning to tackle some follow-up questions with Glenn Freeman. We're delighted to share an extended preview of that episode for you in this feed, but remember, if you want to hear the full thing you'll need to sign up to The Race Members' Club on Patreon!

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Our Indycar Split series concludes by looking at how the CART/IRL war finally came to an end after more than a decade of fighting.

But before we get to that, we have to talk about one of the biggest fights that took place during the split: the battle over who really won the 2002 Indy 500.

Glenn Freeman, Edd Straw and Indy Split book author John Oreovicz dig back in great detail over what happened between Penske IRL driver Helio Castroneves and Team Green CART driver Paul Tracy, who were battling for the lead on the penultimate lap of the race when the yellow flags came out for a crash.

We also look into CART's decline and ultimate collapse, as its teams and engine manufacturers started switching full-time to the IRL.

And finally we revisit the story of how the two sides finally came together, as well as asking if there really was a winner once the war was over and Indycar racing was reunited again in 2008. 

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We know from your feedback that you enjoy it when Bring Back V10s dips into the world of Indycar racing, so as a winter bonus we're delighted to bring you our special three-part series on the infamous story of how Indycar racing was torn apart in the mid-90s.

Episode 2 deals with CART's US 500 nightmare as it attempted to go head-to-head with the first 'IRL' Indy 500 in 1996. Glenn Freeman, Edd Straw and John Oreovicz then look back on CART's strength in the late-1990s, and the IRL's struggles to become established. Then at the turn of the century, Chip Ganassi Racing became the first big hitter from CART to go back to Indianapolis, starting a gradual shift of more teams crossing the divide each May, which eventually led to the first big full-time defection to the IRL.

We hope you enjoy this little sideways step into another area of motorsport, but if it’s not for you, fear not we’ll be back with more F1 coverage very soon.

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We know from your feedback that you enjoy it when Bring Back V10s dips into the world of Indycar racing, so as a winter bonus we're delighted to bring you our special three-part series on the infamous story of how Indycar racing was torn apart in the mid-90s, shortly after Nigel Mansell had helped make the North American series so popular that Bernie Ecclestone saw it as a threat to F1.

In episode one, Glenn Freeman, Edd Straw and 'Indy Split' book author John Oreovicz head back to early-1994 and the moment Indianapolis Motor Speedway boss Tony George announced he would be forming his own competitor to the CART Indycar series.

We look at what drove George to make his bombshell announcement, and how the world of Indy racing reacted and evolved in the two years before the Indy Racing League hit the track for its first race.

There's also discussion around the silly move the CART teams made that helped the IRL get up and running, and how both sides of the war fired major shots at each other with their plans for the weekend of the 1996 Indianapolis 500.

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Welcome to a free episode we're releasing in full from The Race Members' Club's Bring Back V10s 1993 Revisited series.

Throughout 2025 we've been doing race-by-race episodes on the 1993 F1 season, which was voted for by our members as the follow-up to the 1997 season we covered in 2024.

We're currently running a Black Friday special offer where you can get 50% OFF your first month in The Race Members' Club on Patreon with us, so to celebrate we thought we'd release one of our members-only bonus shows in full!

Get ready to hear tales of Alain Prost's title charge, a messy day for Ayrton Senna, Damon Hill's building momentum, home heroics from Ferrari at Monza, Michael Andretti bowing out of F1 with his best result, and one of the strangest FINISH LINE F1 accidents of all time!

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Season 12 of Bring Back V10s concludes with a brilliant selection of questions about F1’s V10 era that came in from The Race Members’ Club. Glenn Freeman is joined by Mark Hughes, Ben Anderson and Edd Straw to tackle a wide range of topics, including how F1’s modern-day driving guidelines would be applied to the Michael Schumacher/Damon Hill Adelaide 1994 collision, who was most at fault for the collapse of the Prost-Peugeot partnership, how refuelling would have changed the Ayrton Senna/Alain Prost dynamic at the start of the V10 era, what would have happened if Michael Schumacher chose McLaren over Ferrari for 1996, plus much more including our verdict on a brilliant submission of the ultimate Bring Back V10s 16-race F1 calendar.

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For Season 12’s top 10 debate, we took a suggestion from Chris Parrott in The Race Members’ Club to rank the biggest F1 heartbreaks of the V10 era. Having then enlisted the help of many more of our members on Patreon in the Bring Back V10s community chat group, a shortlist of crushing moments was created for Glenn Freeman, Ben Anderson, Matt Beer and Edd Straw to put into their own top 10s. Unsurprisingly we were spoilt for choice, so get ready for a lengthy chat that primarily focuses on underdogs who came painfully close to great moments of glory, but also features a few greats who were denied early success before their careers truly took off. 

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Bring Back V10s heads back to 1993 for the final regular episode of Season 12, with an in-depth look at that year's Monaco Grand Prix, which proved a historic one for Ayrton Senna as he took a record-breaking sixth victory in the Principality.

Glenn Freeman is joined by Andrew van de Burgt and 1993 apologist Edd Straw to look back on the big off-track stories making headlines leading into the weekend and the key on-track moments in the race, including a controversial jump-start penalty for Alain Prost, an unlucky retirement for Michael Schumacher, and a wild moment featuring Gerhard Berger, Damon Hill and Michael Andretti. Plus, Glenn, Andrew and Edd discuss whether Senna's record-breaking victory was actually the worst of his six wins in Monaco.

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Bring Back V10s goes 'Hybrid' for the second time in its history, heading back to the 2015 Malaysian Grand Prix where Sebastian Vettel took his first win for Ferrari, and inflicted Mercedes' first proper defeat of the hybrid era by beating Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg in a straight fight.

Glenn Freeman is joined by Ben Anderson and Edd Straw, who were both at Sepang that weekend, to look back on why Ferrari had the upper hand on Mercedes in race trim, and if Mercedes' cautious approach to race strategy and fairness between its two drivers worked against it.

We also reflect extensively on McLaren's miserable start to its second stint with Honda, and Fernando Alonso's mysterious pre-season testing crash which had ruled him out of the season-opener in Australia.

Plus there's plenty of talk about Red Bull-Renault's 2015 troubles, with both parties claiming they were considering their futures in F1 off the back of such a tough ride in the early part of the hybrid era.

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The 2005 F1 season marked the beginning of a new era, as Ferrari's run of consecutive championships with Michael Schumacher was about to come to an end.

And that was evident from the beginning of the year, when Renault got off to a dream start with Giancarlo Fisichella easily winning from pole position, and Fernando Alonso charging through from a lowly grid position to almost complete a one-two.

Meanwhile Schumacher was a high-profile victim of changeable weather on F1's first aggregate qualifying weekend, and his race ended with a clumsy collision with new Williams driver Nick Heidfeld.Glenn Freeman is joined by Matt Beer and Mark Hughes to look back at the start of the 2005 season, with a race that won a members poll on Patreon by just two votes!

Off-track, the big topics were how Ferrari would get on starting the year with an updated 2004 car, how Bridgestone and Michelin felt about in-race tyre changes being outlawed, and Minardi's war with the FIA that featured an in-weekend court case, and the entirety of international events in Australia coming under threat!

There's also Red Bull's impressive F1 debut, BAR's cheeky intentional double retirement, Williams starting rumours about BMW and Sauber, and how Eddie Jordan found his first race weekend after selling his team and no longer being part of the paddock.

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McLaren’s single season with Peugeot in F1 goes down as a year to forget in the team’s great history. But even though the short-lived alliance didn’t enjoy much success, there was plenty going on to make it worth the Bring Back V10s treatment.

Glenn Freeman, Ben Anderson, and Edd Straw revisit how McLaren tried to adapt to life after Ayrton Senna, and how it nearly coaxed his great rival Alain Prost out or retirement to spearhead its new era. We also dive into Martin Brundle’s gamble to land the seat Prost rejected.

We couldn’t possibly dig into every Peugeot engine failure from that season, but we do stop off along the way at the most famous ones, and look at the fallout behind the scenes after Brundle’s car burst into flames at the start of the British GP. 

We then get into how quickly the relationship fell apart, with McLaren finding a way out of its Peugeot deal to link up with Mercedes for 1995, to the benefit of Jordan.

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Juan Pablo Montoya and Williams brought their rollercoaster relationship to a close with a memorable victory at the 2004 season finale in Brazil, where Montoya beat his future McLaren team-mate Kimi Raikkonen in a tense battle.

Glenn Freeman is joined by Jon Noble and Ben Anderson to look back on a weekend where dominant 2004 champion Michael Schumacher was a surprising non-factor, and Montoya was able to salvage something from a tough season for Williams.

Off-track, we look at David Coulthard's bid to get a drive with Williams, and why the team was also looking at bringing his old McLaren team-mate Mika Hakkinen out of retirement. Plus we revisit how Eddie Jordan realised he was reaching the end of the road in F1 as a team owner.

There's plenty of F1 politics, with new rules announced for 2005 and 2006 (including the banning of V10s!), and another dispute where the entire grid seemed to be united against Ferrari.

And we couldn't possibly talk about the end of 2004 without paying homage to 'Donkey Does F1', looking at how an inflatable donkey probably became F1's first viral character!

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The 1999 German Grand Prix marked the first time Eddie Irvine got to be the beneficiary of team orders at Ferrari, as Michael Schumacher stand-in Mika Salo was ordered aside to boost Irvine's unlikely title charge against Mika Hakkinen and McLaren at Hockenheim.

Glenn Freeman, Edd Straw and Matt Beer look back on how Irvine and Ferrari were adapting to him being the team leader, and they explore how McLaren's scrappy 1999 season opened the door for this most unexpected of challenges.

We also explore where Irvine fit into the driver market as he looked to move on from Ferrari, what the dynamic was between Hakkinen and team-mate David Coulthard after their collision at the previous race in Austria, how Ford was behaving around Stewart GP having just bought the team, and why Damon Hill parked a seemingly healthy car as his miserable 1999 campaign was dragged out against his will.

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Bring Back V10s finally heads back to Suzuka for the second explosive instalment in 1989-1990 saga between F1 enemies Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost.

Glenn Freeman, Edd Straw, and Andrew van de Burgt revisit the infamous 1990 Japanese Grand Prix to discuss one of F1's most shocking collisions.

We delve into Senna's controversial justification for taking Prost out to win that year's title – from the location of the pole position grid slot to his "if you no longer go for a gap" philosophy – and Prost's furious reaction, including his threat to quit F1.

Beyond the title-deciding crash, we look back on the helicopter accident that prematurely ended Alessandro Nannini’s F1 career, and how Roberto Moreno won the scramble for his Benetton seat.

We also cover Johnny Herbert's F1 comeback with Lotus, the end of the road for hopeless backmarkers EuroBrun and Life, and the ambitious unveiling of the Brabham-Yamaha partnership.

In the race itself, we explain how Benetton claimed a surprising one-two with Nelson Piquet and an exhausted and emotional Moreno as the other big hitters fell out of contention, and Edd gets to celebrate a historic podium for home hero Aguri Suzuki. And we look into how Williams ended up fourth and fifth on a day when no McLarens or Ferraris finished.

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Bring Back V10s Season 12 is here! We're kicking off the new season with one of our most requested topics: the 2003 Michelin tyre controversy that erupted ahead of that year's Italian Grand Prix.

Glenn Freeman, Edd Straw, and returning special guest Ted Kravitz dive into the tyre story in great detail, exploring how Ferrari and Bridgestone brought it to the FIA's attention, how the Michelin teams reacted, and how the fallout from the rule tweak spilled over into a spicy weekend in the Monza paddock.

We'll also explain how Ross Brawn nearly got himself into legal trouble with Michelin, and Ted reveals who Brawn took aim at in a memorable press conference exchange where he told a member of the media to stop laughing.

Other topics covered include Jacques Villeneuve's shaky future at BAR, teams raising concerns about F1's team orders ban, plus Marc Gene's last-minute stand-in heroics for Williams - and how his presence briefly confused the ITV F1 commentators AND the Ferrari pitwall during a crucial pitstop phase of the race.

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The second season of Bring Back V10s Revisited kicks off with the 1993 South African Grand Prix from Kyalami, which you can listen to a preview of here. 

Glenn Freeman, Edd Straw, Matt Beer and Ben Anderson look back on the race that marked the resumption of the Alain Prost vs Ayrton Senna rivalry, and how Michael Schumacher and Senna kicked off the season with another controversial collision. We also explore Damon Hill’s difficult Williams debut, and Sauber’s impressive first F1 start.

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Bring Back V10s dusts off its VHS player to celebrate the incredible Murray’s Magic Moments video from the mid-1990s in this bonus episode for The Race Members’ Club, which we’re giving a little preview of in our main feed. 

Glenn Freeman, Matt Beer, Ben Anderson and Edd Straw look back over all of the main segments covered in this classic F1 clips show that celebrated F1’s rise from the mid-1970s all the way to the mid-1990s. 

So get ready for talk of Gilles Villeneuve’s antics (plus a bit of Jacques), John Watson’s heroics from the back of the grid, Ayrton Senna vs Alain Prost, LOTS of Nigel Mansell, plus Damon Hill vs Michael Schumacher and much much more as we look at how F1 history could be brought to life in the days before YouTube! 

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Bring Back V10s pays tribute to the late Eddie Jordan with a special episode looking back at the Jordan team's greatest moments in F1.

Host Glenn Freeman is joined by Ben Anderson and Matt Beer to debate which of Jordan's many highlights during its memorable time in F1 should be considered the brightest and best, charting the team's journey from a newcomer that had to go through pre-qualifying, to a brief title contender by the end of the 1990s before its decline set in during the early years of the 21st century.

If you'd like to watch the free bonus show on Patreon where Glenn goes through heartfelt memories shared by our audience, you can find it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/discussing-your-124802329

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It’s almost time for the second series of Bring Back V10s Revisited, where we go back through a classic season in detail in The Race Members’ Club.

For the first ‘Revisited’ season we picked 1997, but this time we’re putting you in control.

Glenn Freeman, Edd Straw, Matt Beer and Ben Anderson have each nominated a season they would love to cover race-by-race in 2025, but the final say is down to our members.

Listen to the case made by each of our panel, then head to https://www.patreon.com/posts/124201999?pr=true to cast your vote.

If you're not a member, you can get 90% off your first month when you join The Race Members' Club on Patreon today! You'll get loads of bonus content, including the 1997 Revisited Series, the BBV10s Debrief AND the upcoming Revisited Series.

Head toPatreon.com/theraceto join.

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For the finale of Season 11 of Bring Back V10s we're debating the top 10 rivalries of F1's V10 era.

Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Michael Schumacher and Nigel Mansell all feature prominently as you'd expect, as do the main foes they encountered - and usually fell out with.

Host Glenn Freeman is joined by the usual 'top 10' crew of Ben Anderson, Edd Straw and Matt Beer to debate which rivalries stood out the most, and compare their different approaches to the question of what makes an F1 rivalry great.

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We’ve had an absolute deluge of questions from you for our traditional ‘Ask us Anything’ episode in Season 11, and as ever there were far too many great ones for us to fit them all in one episode. 

Glenn Freeman, Ben Anderson and Edd Straw have a great selection to work through, including hypothetical questions about how F1 would have looked if Michael Schumacher hadn’t got his F1 debut with Jordan in 1991, or if he’d never existed at all!

There’s also the question of if McLaren ever truly valued David Coulthard (and who was better out of DC and Damon Hill!), how Jacques Villeneuve would have got into F1 if there wasn’t a vacancy at Williams in 1996, if McLaren could have won the 1998 championship on Goodyear tyres, and Edd gets to tackle a dream suggestion about what F1 could have done with teams that failed to qualify back in the early days of the V10 era.

We’ll have many more Q&A episodes exclusively for The Race Members’ Club after S11 has finished, so we can get through even more of the questions we didn’t make it to this time. 

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For the final regular episode of Season 11 of Bring Back V10s we let our members on Patreon choose a race from 1996, and they voted for the chaotic Monaco Grand Prix that was won by Olivier Panis's Ligier.

Ahead of the third season of our sister podcast And Colossally That's History, Glenn Freeman and Edd Straw are joined by Colossally co-host Matt Bishop to look back on a bonkers afternoon in Monte Carlo, and to discuss everything else that was going on in F1 around that weekend.

We look at how Panis came through the madness from 14th on the grid to claim Ligier's final F1 victory, and discuss the precarious state the French team was in at the time. And there's also discussion of the heartbreaking retirements from the lead of the race for championship leader Damon Hill and Benetton's under-fire lead driver Jean Alesi.

Speaking of Hill, this was the weekend when the first rumours about his seat being vulnerable for 1997 emerged, and it was also in Monaco that Ferrari first spoke to Ross Brawn about following Michael Schumacher over from Benetton.

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Bring Back V10s makes its regular detour into F1's V8 era to look back on Sebastian Vettel's sensational first grand prix victory in the 2008 Italian Grand Prix.

Glenn Freeman is joined by Jonathan Noble and Karun Chandhok (who was racing in GP2 that weekend at Monza) to reflect on how Vettel was able to take such a commanding victory for Red Bull's second team Toro Rosso, only three years on from it racing as Minardi!

We look back on why McLaren's Heikki Kovalainen offered no threat despite starting from the front row, and how the other McLaren of Lewis Hamilton was more of a victory contender despite starting 15th on the grid.

Also on the agenda: Robert Kubica's conflict with his BMW team over his fading title hopes, Kimi Raikkonen signing a contract extension that he wouldn't see out with Ferrari, Fernando Alonso's floating role in the driver market, Adrian Newey's wisdom on F1's overtaking debate, and Williams's Sam Michael making an incredibly accurate prediction about how the 2009 season would play out under F1's incoming rule changes.

We then dive into the fallout from Vettel's win for Toro Rosso, including the role it played in the political battle over customer cars in F1, and how it heaped pressure and embarrassment onto Red Bull Racing.

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Bring Back V10s is picking up where its first ever episodes left off, by revisiting what happened to Alain Prost after he was fired by Ferrari in 1991! 

We’ve reunited the trio from our opening two-parter - Glenn Freeman, Karun Chandhok and Edd Straw - to look at what Prost did in 1992, when he nearly ended up racing for, and buying into, the Ligier team.

We look at how close this shock move came to really happening, why it didn’t come off, plus the other offers Prost had for that year, and why his Williams deal for 1993 was kept secret for so long. 

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The most memorable moments from the 2002 F1 season often involve Ferraris messing about on the run to the finish line. But unlike in Austria when the position swap was the result of strict orders from the pit wall, at Indianapolis Michael Schumacher returned the favour - or did he?

Host Glenn Freeman is joined by Mark Hughes and Bring Back V10s debutant Jonathan Noble, who were both at the 2002 US Grand Prix. They look back on the confusion around the finish, as Schumacher seemed unable to decide if he was trying to give Barrichello a victory, or engineer a dead heat finish.

We also look back on Ford completing a three-month review of its failing Jaguar team, BAR considering its identity for the future, Felipe Massa effectively having F1’s first 10-place grid penalty turned into a race ban by his team, and a shock announcement of a new American F1 team that never came to anything.

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Bring Back V10s ventures into F1’s fearsome 1980s turbo era for the first time, looking back on the incredible 1986 Australian Grand Prix that decided that year’s title.

Host Glenn Freeman is joined by Edd Straw and Andrew van de Burgt to reflect on how Alain Prost snatched his second championship from the dominant Williams cars, on the day Nigel Mansell suffered a heart-breaking and terrifying tyre failure when it looked like he was on course to become champion.

We also discuss Keke Rosberg’s starring role in helping McLaren team-mate Prost, and if Williams did the right thing by pitting Nelson Piquet as a precaution after Mansell’s failure, which potentially cost the Brazilian the title as well.

Away from the race there’s also the time Adrian Newey suffered the only creative block of his F1 career, plus Ferrari landing the services of John Barnard and Gerhard Berger, and being turned down by Mansell.

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Nigel Mansell's 1991 F1 championship charge effectively ended at the Portuguese Grand Prix that year, when a wheel departed from his Williams as he pulled away from his pitstop. 

Host Glenn Freeman is joined by Edd Straw and Sam Smith to look back in detail at what went wrong in the pits for Williams at Estoril, on a weekend where Mansell's team-mate Riccardo Patrese took an 'easy' win, and Ayrton Senna banked valuable championship points while also taking a swipe at Mansell's aggressive driving at the start of the race. 

We also look back on Jordan sacrificing its competitive aims for 1992 to make sure it stayed afloat, serious trouble for the Leyton House team, Ford's complaints about F1's engine war, how badly a Minardi-Porsche partnership would have gone, and how Max Mosley caught Jean-Marie Balestre out ahead of their battle for the presidency of FISA.

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We're posting a bonus episode to your feed this week - the first episode of Bring Back V10s Debrief! Glenn Freeman sits down to go through your comments, questions and observations following our Season 11 opener on Jenson Button's 2000 season.

Thank you to everyone who got involved with the beginning of this new feature, which will be a Patreon-exclusive from now on.

Want to watch/listen to every BBV10s Debrief? Join The Race Members' Club on Patreon and get them all, plus bonus episodes, including our 1997 Revisited Series! Head to Patreon.com/therace

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The rivalry between Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill defined the 1995 F1 season, and at Spa that year they had one of their most famous battles - a rare one that didn't end in a collision. 

Matt Beer and Ben Anderson join host Glenn Freeman to look back on how Schumacher recovered from 16th on the grid to win comfortably on a day where he outfoxed and outmuscled his title rival.

We also scrutinise if the reaction to Schumacher's robust driving was fair at the time, and consider how his aggression would be viewed in the present day. 

There's also a look at how the F1 driver market was taking shape in the wake of Schumacher signing for Ferrari for 1996, with Jean Alesi swapping seats with him to lead Benetton, Williams upsetting Adrian Newey by signing Jacques Villeneuve, plus Alain Prost and McLaren causing confusion over who Mika Hakkinen's team-mate would be.

And we dig into why there might have been some substance behind rumours that Ross Brawn could be on his way to Ligier from Benetton.

VOTE FOR US! You can help Bring Back V10s win Best Motorsports Podcast at the 2025 Sports Podcast Awards.Cast your vote here - and if we win we'll add an EXTRA EPISODE to the end of Season 11 as a thank you!

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Bring Back V10s returns for its 11th season, and we're kicking things off with an in-depth look back at Jenson Button's first F1 season with Williams in 2000, with the help of Mark Hughes and ex-Williams insider Jim Wright, alongside host Glenn Freeman.

There's lots of behind-the-scenes stories all the way from how Button got into the frame for the Williams drive, the shootout test against Bruno Junqueira that earned him the seat, and what was really going on inside Williams with Juan Pablo Montoya being readied to replace Button for 2001.

On track we look at the highs and lows of Button's season, from almost scoring points from the back of the grid on his debut, to standout performances at F1's classic circuits like Silverstone, Spa and Suzuka, as well as the times he excelled in mixed conditions - just as he would over the rest of his F1 career.

VOTE FOR US! You can help Bring Back V10s win Best Motorsports Podcast at the 2025 Sports Podcast Awards. Cast your vote here - and if we win we'll add an EXTRA EPISODE to the end of Season 11 as a thank you!

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To get you in the mood for season 11 of Bring Back V10s, we're bringing you a bonus episode from our 1997 revisited series (which we made exclusively for The Race Members' Club) in which Glenn and the gang ranked the top 10 drivers from that classic F1 season.

Following the format of our usual top 10 episodes, Glenn Freeman is joined by Matt Beer, Ben Anderson and Edd Straw to debate (or argue!) about who should be included, and which drivers did the best job over the course of an epic year of racing.

If you enjoy the episode, why not join The Race Members Club on Patreon so you can listen to the whole series and future revisited episodes? Just go to Patreon.com/therace

Like Bring Back V10s? Vote for us in the Sports Podcast Awards! Head here to make your voice heard: https://www.sportspodcastgroup.com/sports_category/best-motorsports-podcast/

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Attention fans of motor racing history: Matt Bishop and Richard Williams will be returning shortly with Season 2 of And Colossally That's History!

Join them as they take an unadulterated look at the earth-shattering events, epic sagas and huge characters that have shaped the sport's past.

Season 2 begins with a bang, with a critical reexamination of the remarkable Formula 1 'spygate' scandal of 2007, featuring a whole host of behind-the-scenes stories and eye-popping personal recollections.  

To make sure you don’t miss that episode or any other, be sure to like, follow or subscribe on your podcast app of choice!

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To finish Season 10 of Bring Back V10s, we're taking your questions about anything to do with F1's V10 era. Host Glenn Freeman is joined by Edd Straw, Matt Beer and Ben Anderson to answer a huge batch of questions, so get ready to hear their thoughts on topics including the best number two driver of the V10 era, if Damon Hill could have won the 1993 title with a bit more luck, what would have happened if Michael Schumacher DIDN’T turn into Jacques Villeneuve at Jerez ‘97, how a Mika Hakkinen Williams comeback would have gone, and which F1 minnow would Edd Straw have saved if he was a millionaire in the early 90s.

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Our latest top 10 debate on Bring Back V10s is all about the biggest driver moves from F1's V10 era.

Glenn Freeman is joined - as always - by Edd Straw, Matt Beer and Ben Anderson, to argue over which moves were the most seismic from 1989-2005, with sub-debates including if drivers moving between teams should be more important than a shocking signing from outside F1, or a driver unexpectedly quitting. And should the success of a move play a role in how highly it's ranked?

The biggest names from the era all feature in our final list, including Schumacher, Senna, Prost, and Mansell, but which move came out as number one, and who of our panelists had the craziest picks? Listen along to find out.

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Bring Back V10s is revisiting the story of Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Jordan nearly pulling off one of F1's greatest championship upsets, but this time we're doing it in much more depth and with the man himself to help us tell the tale!

We covered the end of the '99 season from Jordan's perspective back in season one, and now we are looking back over the whole year with Frentzen joining Glenn Freeman and Edd Straw to give us the inside story. 

We look back on his tense start to life at Jordan, what it was like teaming up with Damon Hill after Frentzen so famously replaced him at Williams, plus all the highs and lows of a memorable year for the team in yellow. 

Sadly, that means discussing the late-season heartbreak at the Nurburgring too, where we find out if it still hurts Frentzen all these years later that a potentially pivotal victory slipped through his fingers on home soil.

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Gerhard Berger's final F1 victory was an emotional one, as he dominated the 1997 German GP at Hockenheim not only on his return after missing three races, but also in the aftermath of his father's death. 

In a special, additional episode for season 10 of Bring Back V10s, we've combined the next episode in our members-only '1997 Revisited' series with an exclusive interview with Berger, where he recalls his memories from that weekend. 

Before that, Glenn Freeman, Matt Beer, Ben Anderson and Edd Straw discuss the main talking points from the weekend, including Berger's winning return, the breakdown of his relationship with his Benetton team, plus Giancarlo Fisichella's heartbreak with Jordan, and a miserable weekend for Williams and Jacques Villeneuve. 

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On this episode, Bring Back V10s turns the clock back to 1997 when three-time world champion Jackie Stewart and his son Paul joined the F1 grid with their eponymous team Stewart Grand Prix.

Glenn Freeman is joined by Edd Straw and Matt Beer to look back on what proved an up and down debut season in the sport, which included Rubens Barrichello’s stunning podium in Monaco, a woeful reliability record that resulted in just eight classified finishes out of a possible thirty-four, underwhelming performances from the then much-heralded Jan Magnussen, and behind-the-scenes political manoeuvring with the FIA…

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Bring Back V10s is going IndyCar racing again, heading back to the 1995 Indy 500 - a race Jacques Villeneuve ranks above his epic 1997 F1 title decider with Michael Schumacher as the greatest of his career. 

Glenn Freeman and Matt Beer are joined by longtime IndyCar reporter Curt Cavin to look back at a crazy race, which was the last before US single-seater racing's dreaded CART vs IRL 'split' that changed the racing landscape in North America.

But this episode isn't just a celebration of Villeneuve's incredible victory after getting a two-lap penalty. We also look at the pre-race shock of the Penske team failing to qualify, Firestone's stunning return to the Speedway for the first time since the 1970s, Honda's recovery from a humiliating 1994 attempt, and the moment that decided the race, when Villeneuve's fellow Canadian Scott Goodyear passed the pace car on the final restart, getting himself black flagged while leading. 

With 'the split' on the horizon, we also look at the political landscape in IndyCar racing in May 1995, when nobody realised just how bad the battle between CART and the IRL was about to become. 

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Our latest trip into F1's V8 era is the Hungarian Grand Prix, as recently voted for by our members! 

Karun Chandhok and Mark Hughes join Glenn Freeman to look back on a weekend where the Fernando Alonso/Lewis Hamilton rivalry exploded in qualifying, and we explore what was really going on behind the scenes - in particular between Alonso and McLaren team boss Ron Dennis. 

This huge weekend in McLaren's season also featured new developments in the spygate controversy, a case that would be reopened in the weeks that followed, after McLaren had initially been let off by the FIA! 

Watch Marc Priestley's YouTube video that we mention in the show here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlOa24FRSeA

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Only one of Thierry Boutsen's three F1 wins came in dry conditions, but it was a famous victory, as he held off the field for the entire 1990 Hungarian Grand Prix, going as slowly as he could out front to make his tyres last the distance without requiring a pitstop. 

Edd Straw and Andrew van de Burgt join Glenn Freeman to look back on Boutsen's masterclass, and the chaos that went on behind him, including two collisions that involved McLaren drivers punting people off at the Hungaroring's tricky chicane. Plus, we dissect Ayrton Senna's race, as he came back from a puncture to miss out on victory to his good friend by 0.2 seconds. 

As always we work our way through the other big topics in F1 at the time, including Nigel Mansell's supposed retirement, Williams trying to sign Senna, Benetton laying the foundations for its mid-1990s title success, the decline of Lotus, and Eddie Jordan getting very upset with the politics of F1 before his team had even joined the grid. 

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Michael Schumacher turned the tide on McLaren's dominant start to the 1998 F1 season with a surprise victory in Argentina, having collided with David Coulthard to take the lead early in the race.

Ben Anderson and Matt Beer join Glenn Freeman to look back on how Schumacher and Ferrari got themselves into the hunt after McLaren dominated the first two races of the year, and how the Goodyear tyre that helped Ferrari worked against reigning champion Williams.

They also discuss how F1's new rules for 1998 were being viewed by the public, Jordan's nightmare start to 1998, McLaren signing a teenage karter called Lewis Hamilton, Benetton's failed attempt to steal Ford away from Stewart, and Jean Alesi running into Sauber team-mate Johnny Herbert on their first lap out of the pits during practice! 

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Kimi Raikkonen's suspension failure on the final lap of the 2005 European Grand Prix at the Nurburgring is one of the iconic images of that season. On this episode of Bring Back V10s, Glenn Freeman is joined by Mark Hughes and Ben Anderson to look back at how close Raikkonen and McLaren came to hanging on in front of Fernando Alonso, and all the factors that led to Kimi nursing a badly flat-spotted tyre almost all the way to the finish.

They also take a closer look at Ferrari's struggles that year, including a surprising admission from Michael Schumacher, plus the spat he was having with team-mate Rubens Barrichello coming out of the previous race in Monaco. There was tension elsewhere in the paddock as well, with Jacques Villeneuve in trouble with his boss Peter Sauber, and BMW denying rumours it was about to buy Sauber as its strained relationship with Williams was coming to an end.

On track, BMW and Williams enjoyed a rare high spot with Nick Heidfeld claiming his only F1 pole and converting that into a podium, there was another tweak to the one-shot qualifying format, and BAR cheekily tried to replace its engines early on returning from a two-race ban.

Plus - how David Coulthard threw away a potential first F1 podium for Red Bull, and Jarno Trulli's bizarre claim that he could have won this race!

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Season 10 of Bring Back V10s is here! Karun Chandhok and Edd Straw join Glenn Freeman to look back on a memorable weekend at Silverstone, where Damon Hill came agonisingly close to claiming his first F1 victory in front of his home crowd.

But a rare Renault engine failure for Hill allowed his Williams team-mate Alain Prost to claim a then-record 50th win, while Prost's bitter rival Ayrton Senna stopped on the final lap of the race for the third year running.

The weekend played out with tension brewing between the FIA and teams over the legality of driver aids, and Bernie Ecclestone taking shots at Indycar racing where reigning F1 champion Nigel Mansell was making international headlines.

We also get the inside story of how Williams upset one of its sponsors so badly that they decided to quit F1 at the end of that season. 

▶️ Watch the McLaren anniversary event we talk about in the show here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDTO9XyNE_Q

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As we're between series on Bring Back V10s at the moment, we thought we'd share a little gift with those of you who aren't part of The Race Members' Club: The first episode of our special members-only series looking back at the 1997 F1 season one race at a time!

Glenn Freeman is joined by Edd Straw, Matt Beer and Ben Anderson to discuss the key moments from the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, where David Coulthard ended McLaren's mid-1990s winless streak, with a slight assist from an overambitious Eddie Irvine.

If you like what you hear and want more, click here to sign up to The Race Members' Club, or you can sign up for all of The Race's bonus audio content (but not the other perks of membership) directly in the Apple Podcasts app.

The second episode, looking back at the 1997 Brazilian Grand Prix, is out already and there's more on the way!

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As a listener to Bring Back V10s, we know you enjoy your F1 history, so we thought you'd like to hear about The Race's new podcast, which delves into other areas of motor racing history.

On this very special crossover episode of Bring Back V10s, Glenn Freeman chats to Matt Bishop and Richard Williams - the hosts of And Colossally That's History!- about their new podcast and what listeners can expect.

Glenn then introduces a section of the first episode, which is about Brawn GP and some of the unintended consequences of their F1 fairy tale. It's full of interesting details and behind-the-scenes information (Matt was working for McLaren at the time!), so we hope it's a topic that will appeal to BBV10s fans, even if it does stray into the V8 era!

If you enjoy this chat with Matt and Richard (and the excerpt of the podcast) please do search for And Colossally That’s History in your podcast app of choice and like, follow or subscribe to the feed so that you can listen to the rest of the Brawn episode and ensure that you get each episode of the podcast delivered to you as soon as they're are released. 

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Another series of Bring Back V10s is over, but all that means is it’s time for us to get stuck in with lots of exclusive episodes for The Race Members’ Club! We’re kicking things off with the first of THREE members-only ask us anything shows, and for this one Glenn Freeman is joined by Mark Hughes and Andrew Van de Burgt.

They discuss F1’s decision to get rid of V10s, what would have happened if Nigel Mansell had stayed with Williams instead of going to Ferrari for two years, and a surprising number of questions covering the career of Alain Prost!

We hope you enjoy this free preview. If you’d like to hear this episode in full, plus our other Q&As, an Alex Zanardi book special and our race-by-race run-through of the 1997 F1 season, then check out The Race Members’ Club!

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We're finishing series 9 of Bring Back V10s with a brilliant selection of questions from our audience, with Mark Hughes, Edd Straw and Andrew van de Burgt on hand to help Glenn Freeman cover a wide range of topics.

So get ready to hear about the best looking grid of F1 cars in the V10 era, how fast current F1 cars could go on proper 'tyre war' slicks, Jordan helping to rebrand DHL, an Onyx-Ferrari tie-up, the best moments of V10 commentary, plus some of our customary what ifs, like Alain Prost racing for Ligier in 1992, or McLaren signing Nelson Piquet instead of Ayrton Senna at the end of the 1980s!

We also construct our very own Bring Back V10s video game - if you'd like to fund the development of it, let us know!

GET IN TOUCH: Use the hashtag #BringBackV10s on Twitter or email bringbackv10s@the-race.com

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The best Williams drivers of F1’s V10 era are the subject of our latest top 10 debate. Edd Straw, Ben Anderson and Matt Beer join Glenn Freeman to discover how their individual top 10s combined, and then argue over the results!

Find out if Glenn and Ben let loyalty towards their childhood heroes influence their rankings, if Matt manages to sabotage Nigel Mansell, Edd’s surprising stance on Heinz-Harald Frentzen, and the never-ending Montoya v Ralf Schumacher debate.

GET IN TOUCH: Use the hashtag #BringBackV10s on Twitter or email bringbackv10s@the-race.com

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The 1996 Portuguese Grand Prix is famous for one thing: Jacques Villeneuve's thrilling around-the-outside pass on Michael Schumacher's Ferrari at the fearsome final corner, which set him up for a charge to victory that kept that year's title battle alive all the way to the final race in Japan.

Matt Beer and Ben Anderson join a giddy Glenn Freeman to revisit one of Villeneuve's greatest days in F1, also looking at how Schumacher really reacted to the move in private.

We also discuss Damon Hill somewhat limping to the title after starting the year so well, plus how Stewart and Jordan did battle for his signature for 1997 before he chose Arrows. There's also talk of Ralf Schumacher rejecting McLaren to sign for Jordan, Sauber landing its Ferrari engine deal, Eddie Irvine benefitting from some rare Ferrari testing, and what happened after McLaren team-mates David Coulthard and Mika Hakkinen collided during the race.

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Bring Back V10s has gone hybrid! 10 years on from the introduction of the modern-day F1 engines that don't make enough noise and are missing four cylinders, Glenn Freeman, Edd Straw and Ben Anderson revisit the 2014 Canadian Grand Prix - a race famous for Daniel Ricciardo taking his maiden F1 win for Red Bull, and Mercedes suffering its first hybrid-era defeat.

We look back at the early shots in the Lewis Hamilton/Nico Rosberg war, Ferrari's nightmare start to the era, how the tension between Red Bull and Renault almost forced Adrian Newey out the door, Haas delaying its entry into F1, Jenson Button fighting for his future at McLaren, and Bernie Ecclestone's stance against social media.

GET IN TOUCH: Use the hashtag #BringBackV10s on Twitter or email bringbackv10s@the-race.com

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Ferrari produced one of its worst F1 cars in 1992, and predictably endured a miserable season as a result. David Tremayne joins Glenn Freeman and Andrew van de Burgt to look back at the attractive Ferrari F92A, famed for its radical 'twin floor', to explore why the year went so badly for the Prancing Horse.

We also look at the upheaval that was going on behind the scenes at Ferrari, including the returns of Luca di Montezemolo, Niki Lauda and John Barnard, and pinpoint how this dreadful season at least laid some of the foundations for the brilliant Michael Schumacher-Jean Todt era that was to follow. Plus we spare a thought for poor Ivan Capelli, whose dream move to Ferrari turned so sour he didn't even get to complete the season before being sacked in brutal fashion.

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The Schumacher brothers were at the top of the F1 mountain in the summer of 2001, and they arrived on home soil at the Nurburgring with Michael comfortably leading the championship, and Ralf having just taken the second win of his career and signing a big new contract with Williams.

The scene was set for another Schumacher vs Schumacher contest when they shared the front row at the Nurburgring, but Ralf's day unravelled - first with a typical startline 'chop' from his brother, and then when Ralf became the first high-profile offender to cross the pit exit white line, earning him a drive-through penalty that led to him storming out of the track on Sunday night.

Glenn Freeman is joined by Matt Beer and Edd Straw to revisit a memorable weekend for the Schumachers plus everything else that was going on in F1 at the time, including Jenson Button's Benetton struggles, Mika Hakkinen's lack of interest in helping David Coulthard, a bizarre CART vs F1 row, early tests of the HANS device, and two drivers signing contracts for 2002 that would not be honoured.

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The 1994 Belgian Grand Prix will forever be remembered as the race where Michael Schumacher was excluded for the plank under his Benetton being too worn down. But it was also the weekend when Rubens Barrichello claimed a shock first pole for Jordan, and the iconic Eau Rouge sequence was sanitised by the addition of a slow-speed chicane.

Gary Anderson - the main responsible for Barrichello's slick-tyre gamble in qualifying - and Sam Smith join Glenn Freeman to revisit a time in F1 when Renault signed up with Benetton for 1995, Nigel Mansell was still in the mix for a full-time Williams seat, McLaren was trying to get Jordan to take its Peugeot engines, Mercedes was running out of patience with Sauber, Forti was getting ready to come into F1, and Damon Hill challenged David Coulthard to a fight!

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Alex Zanardi returned to F1 in 1999 with Williams as red-hot property after a sensational stint racing in America, but things went badly wrong, leading the team to cut ties with him after just one dismal season.

Ex-Williams insider Jim Wright joins Glenn Freeman and self-confessed Zanardi superfan Matt Beer to look back on what went wrong that season, and assess if there was anything Williams or Zanardi could have done differently to enjoy more success together.

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Juan Pablo Montoya ended a 20-year wait for Williams to win another Monaco Grand Prix in 2003, clinging on with an ailing BMW engine to fend off Kimi Raikkonen and Michael Schumacher.

Ben Anderson and Karun Chandhok join Glenn Freeman to look back at a busy F1 weekend in the principality, where F1's manufacturers did battle with the FIA, Ferrari got caught out by F1's new qualifying rules, hype was building around McLaren's radical MP4-18, Jaguar had grand plans for the years to come, Cristiano da Matta received a swipe from his own boss at Toyota, and Jenson Button had to miss the race after suffering a huge accident exiting the tunnel during practice.

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Bring Back V10s is back for a new series! Longtime F1 journalist and radio commentator Maurice Hamilton joins Glenn Freeman and Edd Straw to revisit the 1989 Japanese Grand Prix, a much-requested race where Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna had the first of their infamous collisions. And as we discover, what went on in the weeks following the race was even more ludicrous than the sight of the two McLarens stranded at the chicane after F1's highest-profile slow-speed accident.

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It’s nearly Christmas, so what better way to kick-start the festive season than by getting highly competitive and worked up over meaningless trivia? Yes, for all you loyal Bring Back V10s listeners, we thought you deserved a Christmas bonus, so host Glenn Freeman decamped to London with four of our favourite guests - Edd Straw, Matt Beer, Andrew van de Burgt and Ben Anderson - for a very special episode: The first ever Bring Back V10s Christmas Quiz! 

Play along with the teams and let us know how you got on using the hashtag #BringBackV10s on social media.

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Enjoy a preview of a special members' episode of Bring Back V10s, which goes deep on a subject very close to our hearts...

While the F1 world has got excited about the glitzy, Keanu Reeves-led Brawn GP story on Disney+, out of the limelight another short-lived, iconic F1 team has been the subject of a new documentary: none other than the infamous no-hoper Andrea Moda squad.

Glenn Freeman and Edd Straw get together - having paid out of their own pockets to watch the 3-part series on Vimeo - to discuss the show... without giving away too many spoilers!

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Enjoy a preview of the longest-ever episode of Bring Back V10s, made exclusively for The Race Members' Club. Glenn Freeman, Edd Straw, Matt Beer and Ben Anderson tackle a host of your V10 questions, with a little bit of help from Mark Hughes too.

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For the final episode of series eight we're debating the top 10 title-deciding races of the V10 era. The format is simple: we've taken every race from 1989-2005 where the title was sealed, regardless of if it was a true final-round decider, and then Glenn Freeman, Matt Beer, Edd Straw and Ben Anderson have each come up with a top 10 ranking. Those individual top 10s have then been combined to create an overall result. So listen in to see what we came up with!

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It's time for our regular 'Ask us anything' episode in series 8, with Edd Straw, Gary Anderson and Andrew van de Burgt joining Glenn Freeman to tackle a range of questions from the Bring Back V10s audience!

Get ready to hear their thoughts a huge range of topics, including the idea of the Schumacher brothers as team-mates, how a Ford-powered McLaren could have done in 1994, manufacturers we'd have liked to see join during the V10 era, plenty of backmarker questions for Edd and a debate about the worst liveries that appeared on the grid.

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ITV F1's pit lane reporter Louise Goodman joins Glenn Freeman and Ben Anderson to discuss one of the most chaotic races in the V10 era: The 1998 Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps.

From the monstrous first lap pile-up and subsequent re-start to Michael Schumacher's infamous clash with David Coulthard and Jordan's first ever victory with Damon Hill, this was a race that had it all!

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Nigel Mansell pulled off something that will surely never be seen again when he went to IndyCar as the reigning F1 world champion in 1993, and won the American series' title at the first attempt.

Edd Straw and Karun Chandhok join Glenn Freeman to revisit Mansell's incredible first season in CART in great detail, all the way from his stunning debut victory in Australia, to coming back from a horrific crash at Phoenix and nearly winning the Indy 500 on his first oval start. With additional insight from veteran IndyCar reporter Curt Cavin, we explore how Mansell became the dominant force on ovals, rather than the road courses where the ex-F1 star was expected to dominate.

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Nigel Mansell took a stunning victory from 12th on the grid at the Hungaroring of all places, where overtaking was thought to be almost impossible. And he capped it off with one of F1's all-time great passes, ambusing Ayrton Senna as the McLaren was baulked behind the ailing Onyx of Stefan Johansson.

Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt join Glenn Freeman to revisit Mansell's brilliant drive, the rumours that Alain Prost was going to be signed as his team-mate (and how Nigel felt about that), plus we have a Tyrrell insider's recollection of a spat between Mansell and F1 newcomer Jean Alesi.

There's also talk of Ford putting pressure on Benetton, Porsche considering an F1 comeback, Yamaha's disastrous year with Zakspeed, and Bernie Ecclestone bizarrely firing shots across the Atlantic at the CART series.

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The 1995 Australian GP was a chaotic race that brought the curtain down on the first part of the Bring Back V10s era in many ways. It was F1's final visit to Adelaide, the last time we saw a V12 Ferrari, the final race before the distinctive high cockpit sides were introduced, and the last race that was started with green lights!

Ben Anderson and Matt Beer join Glenn Freeman to discuss how Damon Hill came through a crazy, attritional race to win by two laps from a smoking Olivier Panis, while the second Williams of David Coulthard famously smashed into the wall at the pit entry while leading.

And earlier in the weekend, F1 narrowly avoided tragedy when Mika Hakkinen suffered a horrible accident at the fastest corner of the circuit - and it wasn't long before rumours emerged that Alain Prost could stand in for him in early 1996 if required.

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Bring Back V10s makes its regular detour into the V8 era to revisit the 2010 Korean Grand Prix - a day when Red Bull's title hopes with both Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel seemed to disappear.

Edd Straw and Karun Chandhok join Glenn Freeman to look back on a race where Webber crashed out and Vettel's engine blew, allowing Fernando Alonso to claim victory and the championship lead.

Karun also recalls becoming the first driver to take an F1 car out onto the circuit - while it was still being built!

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The 2000 Australian Grand Prix marked the start of Ferrari's dominance of the early years of the 21st century, although it took an assist from an unreliable McLaren team for Michael Schumacher to score his first win in an F1 season-opener since 1995.

Matt Beer and Mark Hughes join Glenn Freeman to revisit how Schumacher got off to the perfect start, Jenson Button's rollercoaster F1 debut after much debate before the season, a bizarre spat between Eddie Irvine and McLaren, and the beginning of F1's 2000s manufacturer boom, with Honda and BMW back on the grid, Toyota waiting in the wings and Renault buying Benetton.

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We're taking a trip back to the streets of Phoenix for the 1991 US GP, the last race that would be held in the States until 2000. Sam Smith and Gary Anderson join Glenn Freeman to reflect on a comfortable start to Ayrton Senna's final championship-winning year, and Gary shares plenty of stories about the build up to Jordan's first F1 race weekend with the stunning 191...

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For episode one of series eight, Glenn Freeman, Edd Straw and Ben Anderson revisit Red Bull Racing's first season in F1, all the way from taking over Jaguar with a 31-year-old Christian Horner as team boss, to getting both cars in the points on debut, Red Bull buying Minardi later in the year, and the most important moment in Red Bull's F1 history: how it pulled off the signing of Adrian Newey at the end of the season.

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Bring Back V10s is back with a one-off charity special supporting Blood Cancer UK - and for one episode only, no era of F1 is off limits! 

We were overwhelmed by how many of you made a donation and submitted a question for our panel to answer via our Just Giving page, helping us raise over £10,000 for such a worthy cause. 

So join host Glenn Freeman and panellists Edd Straw, Mark Hughes and Matt Beer as they tackle questions on subjects as varied as conspiracy theories around Hamilton and Rosberg’s final season together at Mercedes, Honda’s secret F1 project, dream F1 pub companions, rumoured driver moves that never ending up happening, and so much more.

And don't forget: If you enjoy the episode, you can still make a donation to Blood Cancer UK by visiting our Just Giving page.

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For the final episode of the series we're once again answering your questions about the V10 era. Host Glenn Freeman is joined by Edd Straw, Gary Anderson and Matt Beer to tackle subjects including Rubens Barrichello’s shock front row start at Brazil 1996, Dome’s ‘lost’ F1 car, how Bruno Junquiera would have fared if he’d won his Williams shoot-out with Jenson Button, whether Senna would have succeeded at Ferrari instead of Schumacher, and many more!

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Post your question as a comment attached to the donation, and remember: Just this once it can be about ANY era of F1!

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Our latest Bring Back V10s Top 10 debate focuses on the best team-mate pairings of the era. Edd Straw, Ben Anderson and Matt Beer join host Glenn Freeman to argue over what makes a great team-mate partnership - with a surprising amount of love for Gerhard Berger!

How did we do it? We took every constructors' championship winning set of team-mates from 1989-2005, added in some wildcards, then from that shortlist each of us made our own top 10 ranking. Those were then combined using F1's current points system to create an overall top 10, which is what we run through for you in great detail.

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The 2002 Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne proved a race of dramatically contrasting fortunes for the Schumacher brothers, with Ralf suffering a spectacular first lap retirement and Michael proving a year-old car was no barrier to success.

Edd Straw and Ben Anderson join host Glenn Freeman to pick over the details of a classic race, which featured one of the most iconic first-lap crashes in F1, a somewhat unexpected victory for Ferrari’s Michael Schumacher, and home hero Mark Webber’s unforgettable debut drive to fifth for minnows Minardi.

A host of other big stories that were doing the rounds in F1 at the time are also discussed, including one outfit’s attempts to get onto the grid with assets from the defunct Prost team, and why Ferrari chose to bring their old car to the season-opener rather than their brand-new one.

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Heinz-Harald Frentzen was signed to be Williams's next superstar, but after being brought in to replace world champion Damon Hill, he only took one victory and was firmly put in the shade by team-mate Jacques Villeneuve.

Edd Straw and Matt Beer join host Glenn Freeman to revisit that single win, which came at the 1997 San Marino Grand Prix. As well as discussing Frentzen's failure at Williams at great length, we also dig into the other big stories in F1 at the time, including Villeneuve's outburst over the new rules being planned for 1998, Adrian Newey's switch from Williams to McLaren being finalised just before it went to court, British American Tobacco turning down the idea of pairing up with Benetton to come into F1, Jordan fighting to keep Peugeot engines, and a "cheesed off" Damon Hill wiping out Shinji Nakano at the back of the field as his tough start to life with Arrows got the better of him.

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Force India went from a team that hadn't scored a point to claiming a pole position and a podium finish in one incredible weekend at the 2009 Belgian Grand Prix. But should it have been a win? Edd Straw and Ben Anderson join host Glenn Freeman to look at Giancarlo Fisichella's incredible weekend, and how Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari denied a fairytale result.

There's also talk of Jenson Button's mid-season wobble in his title-winning season, his Brawn GP team secretly doing its deal to be taken over by Mercedes, Red Bull chasing Mercedes engines, Luca Badoer's dreadful stint in place of Felipe Massa at Ferrari, and how the Renault 'Crashgate' scandal was finally exposed during this weekend.

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The 2004 French Grand Prix was famously won by Michael Schumacher switching to a four-stop strategy to outfox Fernando Alonso and Renault on a day where Ferrari faced a bigger threat than usual in one of its most dominant seasons.

Mark Hughes and Scott Mitchell join host Glenn Freeman to look back at how Ferrari pulled the unique strategy off, and why Renault could do nothing about it. They also look back at everything else going on in F1 around the time of the race, including the debut for McLaren's B-spec 2004 car, the beginning of the end for Jarno Trulli at Renault, David Coulthard getting some rough treatment in the driver market, the FIA pushing to slow the cars down for 2005, and Max Mosley announcing he was stepping down at the end of the year as FIA president.

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F1's first race at Malaysia's Sepang circuit was hugely memorable, not only for Michael Schumacher's return after breaking his leg earlier in the year and how he dominated the weekend before handing the win to Eddie Irvine, but also for the post-race controversy that resulted in both Ferraris being excluded - only to be reinstated six days later after winning an FIA appeal. Gary Anderson and Karun Chandhok join host Glenn Freeman to look back on everything that happened around the first Malaysian Grand Prix, including Schumacher's apparent reluctance to come back, Damon Hill's forgettable winding-down of his F1 career, Johnny Herbert enjoying one of his best ever performances, how Mika Hakkinen felt about Schumacher interfering in his race, and all the details on the legality row that broke out after the chequered flag.

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Jean Alesi announced himself as an F1 star in the making at the first race of 1990 in Phoenix, where he led the first half of the race, then cheekily stole the lead back from Ayrton Senna after the McLaren driver passed him mid-race. It set the scene for an eventful year for Alesi on and off track, as he performed underdog heroics with Tyrrell, and ended up signing contracts with both Williams and Ferrari for 1991. Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt join host Glenn Freeman to assess how good Alesi's season really was, why he never regularly hit those heights over the rest of his career, plus who or what was at fault for the mess he found himself in behind the scenes.

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Bring Back V10s ventures into the first year of F1's V8 era to look back at the 2006 Hungarian Grand Prix, where Jenson Button finally claimed the first win of his F1 career. Edd Straw and Scott Mitchell-Malm join host Glenn Freeman to discuss a crazy wet-dry race in great detail, looking at how Button and Honda triumphed, the brilliance of Fernando Alonso before he was forced into retirement, and a day to forget for Michael Schumacher. They also revisit the major news topics from the summer of 2006, including Mark Webber's split from Williams, the Renault mass damper controversy, and how title rivals Alonso and Schumacher both ended up picking up unique penalties that are no longer given out in F1 today.

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The 1993 European Grand Prix at Donington is one of Ayrton Senna's most iconic victories, and of course one of the most famous opening laps by any driver in F1 history. Mark Hughes and Gary Anderson - who were both at Donington that weekend - join host Glenn Freeman to revisit Senna's majestical performance, as well as everything else that happened in that race and what else was going on in F1 at the time - including Peugeot abandoning plans to enter a team in F1, the FIA's first steps towards banning electronic driver aids, the end of Ivan Capelli's F1 career, and tension between Riccardo Patrese and his new Benetton team, which also found itself in a battle with McLaren over its works Ford engines...

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Mika Hakkinen's final F1 victory came in his penultimate race at the 2001 United States Grand Prix, before he headed off into a "sabbatical" that in his mind was always going to be retirement. Mark Hughes - who was covering the race at Indianapolis - and Edd Straw join host Glenn Freeman to revisit F1 arriving on US soil just weeks after the 9/11 terror attacks in New York.

We also discuss the rumours about Michael Schumacher wanting to skip the race, Jean Alesi reaching 200 F1 starts, BAR and Honda realising F1 was going to be tougher than they first expected, Juan Pablo Montoya's comparisons between F1 and US racing, and a bizarre situation that arose around Jordan having a car excluded and then reinstated.

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The new Formula 1 campaign may still be a while away, but international motor racing returns with a bang this weekend with the start of the 2023 Formula E championship. Season 9 brings with it many things: A new generation of car, new tracks, new driver line-ups - and a new host for The Race Formula E Podcast! 

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Karun Chandhok and Edd Straw join Glenn Freeman to revisit the summer of 1996, when Williams decided to drop championship leader Damon Hill for 1997 in favour of Heinz-Harald Frentzen. We look at what was going on behind the scenes at Williams, and put to the test some of the theories Hill has expressed over the years for why the team that gave him his big break in F1 decided it didn't want to carry on with him any longer.

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We're finishing the series with something new: a top 10 debate! Our first topic is about the best cars of the V10 era. Host Glenn Freeman and guests Edd Straw, Matt Beer and Ben Anderson all ranked every drivers' championship-winning car in F1 from 1989-2005, and our four lists were combined to create an overall ranking, which leaves plenty of room for arguments to break out - usually over the quality of a car's opposition or the standard of the drivers they took to championship success.

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