In tribute: Remembering the remarkable Alex Zanardi
The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Media Ltd
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
After the sad passing of Alex Zanardi this weekend, we thought it was only right to put together a special episode of Bring Back V10s to pay tribute to a driver that is so fondly remembered by motor racing fans all over the world.
Glenn Freeman is joined by Edd Straw and Matt Beer to look back on Zanardi's incredible life and inspirational career, which included two stints in F1, championship-winning success in CART and, after the devastating crash that left him a double amputee, multiple Paralympic hand-cycling gold medals.
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| 0:00.0 | Here goes Zanari for the lead, and he has it. |
| 0:06.5 | Alex Zanardi has come seemingly from nowhere to work his magic again. |
| 0:13.2 | I can't believe it. |
| 0:14.9 | After a dramatic last couple of corners, Alex Zanardi will win. |
| 0:18.7 | Round 14 of the World Touring Car Championship, |
| 0:21.3 | Adhosses Label. |
| 0:22.5 | Absolutely mentalism breaking up. |
| 0:25.4 | And the crowd is on its feet in salute of Alex Zanardi. |
| 0:30.4 | The checkered flag waves over Alex Zanardi, |
| 0:33.1 | looking more and more like a champion in 1997. |
| 0:37.0 | Oh, look at here. He comes here. He comes here. He gets him. Can he get him back? Can he hang on? Oh, look at this. Down through the first. On the final lap. Alex Anarni, remember twice we've had the change on the final lap of the race this year. Alex Anardi at the top of the hailing area you would not normally try and pass. Ducks the inside of Brian Herda. Goes all the way off the course on the right-hand side. And Alex Anardi with a brilliant move, takes the checkered flag from the pole and the win here in Magunasaka. Unbelievable. |
| 1:22.2 | Motorsport and global sport has lost an iconic one-of-a-kind character with the news that Alex Zanardi has died at the age of 59. Zanardi's charisma and talent behind the wheel made such an impression on us |
| 1:29.6 | that we felt it was only right that Bring Back V10 should pay tribute to him, even if his two stints |
| 1:35.2 | in F1 are not really the things that people will particularly remember or celebrate him for. |
| 1:40.9 | I'm Glenn Freeman, and to celebrate the memory of Alex Zanardi with me, I'm joined by |
| 1:45.5 | Ed Straw and Matt Beer. Before we get going out, I wanted to pick up on that, what I said, |
| 1:51.1 | that the life lived outside of F1. For people who only really knew the Zanardi story through his |
| 1:56.9 | time as an F1 driver, how do you sum up how much else there was to him in his career? |
| 2:02.0 | Yeah, he was an incredibly spirited racing driver. A bit of a throwback, actually. One of the |
| 2:06.0 | reasons why he thrived in America and struggled it in F1 was the nature of the cars. And I think he |
| 2:11.0 | wasn't, he was kind of on that edge when you were moving into the more data-driven era of |
| 2:16.8 | racing. And he wasn't so good at that. He had this phenomenal |
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