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F1: Beyond The Grid

30 Days of BTG: Day 20 – Why Scott Speed didn’t succeed

F1: Beyond The Grid

karenellenbevan

Leisure, Sports, Technology, Automotive

4.85.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

On Day 20 of our countdown to the new season, former Toro Rosso driver Scott Speed tells Tom Clarkson how his ego and a fiery clash with team boss Franz Tost cut his Formula 1 career short.

For Scott’s full conversation with Tom last year, listen here.

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0:00.0

Hello there Tom Clarkson here. We're into the final sector, just 10 days to go.

0:14.0

If you've been with us since day one,

0:15.5

or you're only just joining us for the first time,

0:18.1

welcome everybody.

0:20.1

It's great to have you with us.

0:21.4

We're counting down to the new series of F1 Beyond the Grid,

0:25.2

which starts on Wednesday the 28th of February,

0:28.4

and we're choosing some of the best bits from our previous six seasons. For day 20 I've chosen someone who with a name like

0:36.0

his was always destined to be a racer. After being discovered by Red Bull as America's

0:42.1

next star Scott Speed drove for Tora Rosso in 2006 and 2007.

0:48.0

He had natural talent and raw pace, but in his own words, he had a bad attitude, which meant he lasted just 18 months in Formula One.

1:01.3

Oh gosh, how young I was an uneducated, massive ego. I just look back at a silly kid. It's

1:09.4

kind of embarrassing, honestly. I obviously had a lot of ability I was very good at driving that type of vehicle

1:15.8

I don't think I was at the level of like your Rossburgs or your Lewis from my generation

1:21.4

those guys were special obviously Lewis still is because he's still

1:24.2

competing with this next generation of driver which is remarkable it's really insane

1:29.0

but I didn't have a good why you know my reason for doing that was just I wanted to see how good I was.

1:36.4

I didn't have a good mental model. I certainly didn't have a good mindset. I was put into some

1:40.8

incredibly great environments by Red Bull to help me succeed and help me develop

1:45.0

because when I left America and went over there I didn't have the ability to do it.

1:49.2

But they did a great job of placing me with good teams up to the ladder where I could learn even though I didn't

1:54.3

realize I was learning I just thought that if I was fast it was because the car was good and if we

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