BONUS: Ranking the Top 10 drivers of 1997
Bring Back V10s - Classic F1 stories
The Race Media Ltd
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🗓️ 19 December 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Go, go, go! |
| 0:12.4 | Oh my goodness, this is fantastic. |
| 0:16.5 | Welcome to a special bonus episode from Bring Back V10s to get you in the mood ahead of our return for season 11 in the new year. |
| 0:24.2 | Today, we're celebrating the end of our full season look back at 1997, which we've been doing in the race members club with a mini episode on each of the 17 races. |
| 0:34.7 | Our trip through the year has finished now, but we weren't ready to say goodbye to |
| 0:37.9 | 1997 just yet, so we thought we'd finish off by debating the top 10 drivers of that season. |
| 0:44.3 | To do that, Ed Straw, Ben Anderson and Matt Beer are here with me, Glenn Freeman. And if listening |
| 0:49.5 | to all this chat about 1997 gives you a taste for looking back at that season in full, then check out |
| 0:55.7 | the link in the description of this episode to head to our Patreon, where you can sign up and go |
| 1:00.4 | back through the full season with us. And if you're not sure about fully signing up yet, each |
| 1:05.5 | episode is also available to buy individually for a one-off price. So why not check out a race |
| 1:10.8 | you're |
| 1:11.0 | particularly interested in and then sign up to get the rest if you like what you hear. |
| 1:15.5 | As usual with our top tens, the way we've done this is to each do our own top 10 lists, |
| 1:20.1 | which have then been scored using the current F1 point system and the combined scores are |
| 1:25.6 | used to give us our top 10. |
| 1:28.1 | And before we get going, Ben, anyone who has followed this series closely will know that you've managed to shoehorn Damon Hill into every single episode. |
| 1:38.4 | But I'm going to give away right now that David wasn't in your top 10. |
| 1:42.5 | So there was no attempt to make sure that we talk about him here. |
| 1:45.5 | I would call that a disgraceful lack of loyalty. And I've let you off the hook, really, by bringing |
| 1:51.1 | Damon up at this stage. So explain yourself. Oh, well, I'm sorry, Damon. And I'm sorry, |
| 1:57.7 | everyone. I obviously, I really wanted him to be in the top 10 but number one well |
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