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F1 Beyond The Grid

Racing for Ferrari - Part 1: The Enzo Ferrari years, with Andretti, Scheckter, Brooks and Berger

F1 Beyond The Grid

karenellenbevan

News, Leisure, Sports News, Sports, Automotive

4.75.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

They’re the most storied team in Formula 1 history, the one that’s been around the longest, the one with the most wins and championships, the one that generates the most headlines, and definitely the one with the most mystique. But what’s it like to drive for the biggest F1 team on the planet, Scuderia Ferrari? In the first of two special episodes, we speak to those who have been there and done it, with our focus in part one on those who drove for the Prancing Horse under legendary founder Enzo Ferrari. So get ready for stories from four Ferrari race winners: Mario Andretti, Jody Scheckter, Tony Brooks and Gerhard Berger…

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0:00.0

They're the most story team in Formula One history.

0:07.9

The one that's been around the longest, the one with the most wins and the most championships,

0:13.1

the one that generates the most headlines and definitely the one with the most mystique.

0:19.5

But what's it like to drive for the biggest Formula One team in the world, Scuderia Ferrari?

0:26.3

Italy, you're driving for a country.

0:29.0

You're not driving for a team.

0:30.7

To be once in your life a Ferrari driver, it's a very special feeling.

0:35.4

You are the one being choice to deliver the happiness and the dream.

0:42.2

It's a cliche to say that every driver's dream is there to be a Ferrari driver one time or another.

0:49.4

Well, mine was the original three.

0:52.7

I don't think my career could call my career complete if I didn't have that opportunity quite honestly.

1:00.0

I'm Tom Clarkson and on this, the first of two very special episodes of Beyond the Grid

1:06.7

to celebrate Ferrari's 1000th Grand Prix.

1:09.8

I'll be finding out the answer by chatting to the men who drove for the famous passing horse.

1:16.4

On this week's show, I'll speak to four drivers who drove for the Marinelo team under its iconic founder, Enzo Ferrari.

1:24.8

We'll find out what makes Ferrari so special, the unique pressures of driving for the team in red,

1:30.5

the incredible lust for victory, the famous internal politics, and what it was like to have Enzo Ferrari as a boss.

1:38.8

So get ready for plenty of fabulous anecdotes from Mario Andretti, Jodie Schechter and Gerhard Berger.

1:46.0

But we'll start with Tony Brooks, the rapid Englishman who drove for Ferrari in their first decade in the sport, the 1950s.

1:55.2

His previous team Van Wool had pulled out a Formula One and no other British team had a seat available.

2:01.8

And Tony got a phone call from Ferrari and set off to Marinelo with his Italian wife, Pina, in tow.

2:11.5

I had a call from Tavoni, Ramolo Tavoni, the team manager of Ferrari saying,

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