1993 Revisited: F1’s dramatic South Africa opener

Bring Back V10s - Classic F1 stories

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4.9 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

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. CLAIM YOUR DISCOUNT: To listen to the full show and get all of The Race’s bonus content about past and present F1, sign up to The Race Members’ Club and enter the code ‘V10’ at the checkout to get 50% OFF your first month with us. WATCH IN FULL: You can also see the entire episode on the BBV10s YouTube channel

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0:00.0	Go, go, go!
0:12.6	Oh my goodness, this is fantastic.
0:16.6	Welcome to the second series of Bring Back V10's Revisited, where we go back through a classic season of F1 action, race by race.
0:25.8	We had so much fun doing this for 1997 last year that we had to come back and do it again.
0:31.3	And this time, we put the power to decide which season we covered into the hands of the race members club on Patreon, who
0:38.6	was swayed by an impassioned, some might say over the top pitch from Ed Straar, meaning
0:43.8	that Ed's nomination to cover the 1993 season won the vote ahead of 1999, 2003 and 2005,
0:53.9	which were suggested by the rest of us, and let's face it, a much better seasons.
0:58.2	But Ed, given how strongly you sold everyone on 1993 being so great, do you feel pressure that
1:04.8	you've got to now live up to the hype? No, no pressure. 93 sales itself. As far as this being popular goes, it's Alan Pross
1:12.4	cruising in the 93 Williams, no problem at all. Even the sceptics are going to love it by
1:16.4	halfway through the season, probably earlier.
1:18.6	1993 does not sell itself because I went back and looked at the Bring Back V10's
1:23.9	Best Season World Cup that we did on Twitter quite a few years ago, where 1993 was in
1:31.5	Group B of that against 1997, 2003 and 2005. Now, I would call that a group of death, in fairness.
1:41.0	Yes. Would anyone like to guess where 1993 placed in that group of death?
1:47.2	First, with 87% of the vote.
1:49.1	I'm surprised it made the group stage at all.
1:53.6	I think, yeah, I think we've binned off 1994 because we don't, you know, we're not that keen on 1994 here for various reasons.
2:03.8	Didn't think it's fair to include it.
2:05.1	Ed said first and also gave a percentage guess there.
2:09.3	It was, of course, bottom.
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