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A new Silver Arrow? Can Ferrari match Max? British GP Preview

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Formula 1

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4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

A ‘bigger and more visible’ upgrade for Mercedes. A ‘must-win’ race for Ferrari? A first British GP win for Max Verstappen? Tom Clarkson and Damon Hill chat all the big topics and consider all the big questions ahead of the 2022 British Grand Prix. Mercedes’ Trackside Engineering Director, Andrew Shovlin, reveals the new parts he hopes will let the team challenge Ferrari and Red Bull. Are Mercedes still aiming for a victory this season, or is the team switching focus to 2023?  Plus, Damon’s memories of Silverstone as a child spectator and F1 rookie, Pierre Gasly’s F1 future discussed and questions about how F1 drivers manage their tyres and… other things.

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0:00.0

It's one of the most incredible chapters in our sport's history.

0:04.0

Braun, the impossible Formula 1 story, is streaming exclusively on Disney Plus from the 15th of November.

0:11.0

The series stars Keanu Reeves as host and executive producer in addition to Formula 1 legends,

0:17.0

Ross Braun, Jensen Button, Nick Fry, Rubens Barrakello and Christian Horner.

0:22.0

It's an unscripted documentary series telling the remarkable story of how Ross Braun made the impossible happen.

0:30.0

His understaffed, underfinanced and independent team, Braun Grompry, won the Formula 1 World Championship,

0:37.0

taking on the biggest titans of the industry, all after purchasing the team for just £1.

0:43.0

The series goes behind the scenes of this Formula 1 fairytale with the people who were there on the track,

0:49.0

in the garage and in the boardroom giving their own accounts of this miraculous year.

0:54.0

With access to the Formula 1 archives much of it previously unseen,

0:58.0

this series brings you along for the ride to victory, led by British Formula 1 driver Jensen Button and Ross Braun.

1:05.0

I remember that season so well, how the team turned up at pre-season testing and set a stunning lap time.

1:12.0

Their incredible start to the year and the tense race in Brazil where Jensen won the title.

1:17.0

This documentary tells the story so brilliantly, it's definitely worth a watch, especially if you're a newer Formula 1 fan.

1:25.0

Braun, the impossible Formula 1 story, an original series streaming November the 15th exclusively on Disney+.

1:33.0

So Tom, it's the English festival season, we've had Glastonbury, we've had the Goodwood Festival of Speed and now the big one,

1:41.0

the big festival of Grompry at Silverstone.

1:44.0

It's my favourite time of year, Damon. Of course, two icons, when I think of Silverstone, two icons,

1:51.0

yourself and Nigel Menzel, and you caught up with Nigel at the weekend, didn't you?

1:56.0

Yes, I met Nigel who was on top form, absolutely brilliant to see him there and being celebrated for his World Championship, which was 1992, wasn't it?

2:07.0

And when you saw him driving the Williams FW-14B of 1992, did you say to him, yeah, that's my car Nigel, I helped develop that.

2:17.0

There's no eye in team Tom, we know that. I did what I was called, I think I did the donkey work, basically, with Paddy Lo on that car.

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