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Hi, I'm Gaha Berger and you're listening to Beyond the Grid.

Hi there, it's TC here and welcome to another episode. This time I'm winding the clock back

several decades because I'm chatting to a driver who lived through the hedonistic 80s and 90s.

It was an era of outrageous cars, pioneering designs and huge amounts of fun

and he also survived which others didn't and most notably his friend, Edson Senna and his

compatriot Roland Ratson Berger. It's F1's fastest ever prankster Gaha Berger, the man

famous for chucking Senna's briefcase out of a helicopter and what a life he's led.

He's won, he's crashed, he's beaten the best drivers in the world in the same equipment

and he's raised for Ferrari. I caught up with him in Monaco and it's fair to say he's

mellowed a bit since our paths first crossed in 1996 but he's still got that misdievous twinkle in his eye.

Gaha, you had a great Formula One career, 210 races over 14 seasons with 10 victories but

more than that you seemed to epitomize 80s Formula One for me at least. You were fast, you were

daring, you were glamorous, you were fun, women loved you, even Bernie, Eccleston loved you.

Would you agree with that? Well, I should have raised the money if it's like this. If you're telling

the right things then I would sort myself to chip on the mistake. But is that how you look back on it?

You know what funny that you asked me just now the question because this morning I was sitting

together with Sean Alessi with my ultimate when we've been together in Ferrari and I said Sean,

you know, we both, we did not realize which nice life we had when we've been here for

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