Bring Back V10s: Monza 2003 and the Michelin tyre controversy
The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Media Ltd
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2025
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Bring Back V10s - the podcast the celebrates the golden era of F1 from 1989 to 2005 - is back with Season 12! 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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| 1:24.1 | With three races to go in the 2003 F1 season, we had an epic championship fight in full swing, |
| 1:30.8 | with Michael Schumacher, Juan Pablo Montoya and Kimmy Reikinen covered by just two points at the top of the standings. |
| 1:37.0 | Schumacher was clinging on to the lead after a barren run of races by his standards, |
| 1:41.5 | having not won for five races, while Williams and McLaren hunted down Ferrari. |
| 1:46.6 | But ahead of Monza, that all seems set to change, when Ferrari, with an assist from Bridgestone, |
| 1:52.6 | managed to get a rule clarification that robbed Ferrari's Michelin-shodd rivals of a crucial |
| 1:57.6 | edge. Welcome to Season 12 of Bring Back V10s, |
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