Bring Back V10s: Vettel's first Ferrari win at Malaysia 2015
The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Media Ltd
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Bring Back V10s goes 'Hybrid' for the second time in its history, heading back to the 2015 Malaysian Grand Prix where Sebastian Vettel took his first win for Ferrari, and inflicted Mercedes' first proper defeat of the hybrid era by beating Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg in a straight fight.
Glenn Freeman is joined by Ben Anderson and Edd Straw, who were both at Sepang that weekend, to look back on why Ferrari had the upper hand on Mercedes in race trim, and if Mercedes' cautious approach to race strategy and fairness between its two drivers worked against it.
We also reflect extensively on McLaren's miserable start to its second stint with Honda, and Fernando Alonso's mysterious pre-season testing crash which had ruled him out of the season-opener in Australia.
Plus there's plenty of talk about Red Bull-Renault's 2015 troubles, with both parties claiming they were considering their futures in F1 off the back of such a tough ride in the early part of the hybrid era.
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| 1:25.4 | Sebastian Vettel only had to wait until his second race in red to take his first win as a Ferrari driver, |
| 1:32.3 | and in the process, he inflicted Mercedes' first proper defeat at the hybrid era of the 2015 Malaysian Grand Prix. |
| 1:39.4 | Vettel and Ferrari's triumph was well-timed as Mercedes dominance in the season opera in Australia |
| 1:43.9 | had set |
| 1:44.7 | alarm bells ringing that its dominance was going to do serious damage to F1, although complaints |
| 1:50.0 | from a struggling Red Bull team that dominated the end of the V8 era fell on pretty deaf ears |
| 1:56.3 | and were even mocked by world champion Lewis Hamilton. |
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