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F1 Beyond The Grid

Racing for Ferrari – Part 2: Mansell, Prost, Vettel and more on the modern era

F1 Beyond The Grid

karenellenbevan

News, Leisure, Sports News, Sports, Automotive

4.75.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In the second of our special episodes chronicling what it’s like to drive for Scuderia Ferrari, F1’s most storied team, we fast forward into the modern era, to hear what it’s like to race for the Prancing Horse without founder Enzo at the helm. There are superb stories from Nigel Mansell and Alain Prost, who guided the Maranello team into the Nineties, plus eye-opening insight from fan favourite Rubens Barrichello and current drivers Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc too.

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0:00.0

On the 14th of August 1988, Enzo Ferrari passed away at the age of 90. Formula One had

0:11.2

lost its most iconic team principle, but his legendary team would live on.

0:20.5

I'm Tom Clarkson and welcome to Beyond the Grid for the second of our special episodes

0:25.4

chronicling what it's like to drive for Scuderia Ferrari that most emotive of teams.

0:39.0

Last week Mario Andretti, Jodie Schechter, Tony Brooks and Gerhard Berger talked us through

0:44.7

what it was like to race for the Prancing Horse under Enzo's watchful eye. This week we're looking

0:50.6

at the modern era, the second phase of Ferrari if you like. What it was like to drive for Ferrari

0:56.6

immediately after Enzo had died and what it's like today. We'll be sharing brand new insight

1:02.9

from three world champions, Alain Prost, Nigel Mansl and Sebastian Vettel, as well as the thoughts

1:09.0

of beloved Ferrari race winner Rubens Barrakello and current idol, Charlotte Clark. Sadly, we won't be

1:15.8

hearing from the man who defined Ferrari in the modern era, Michael Schumacher, but Beyond

1:21.0

a No Illusions as to what racing for the Maranello team meant to him. Schumy arrived in 1996

1:28.1

to a team with just two race wins in the previous five years. A team that had not won the drivers title

1:35.0

since 1979. He'd emphatically change all that of course, winning three races in his maiden season

1:42.2

in red, including an emotional triumph on Ferrari's home soil at Monza.

1:53.4

The Jefferson are on the track, it's quite incredible the way they find their way onto the circuit.

2:00.6

Just staying in front of those guys in such a crowd is just unbelievable. I've never seen

2:06.6

so many emotions, so many people enjoying themselves, it's fantastic.

2:15.1

When Schumacher burst onto the F1 scene in 1991, the big dogs of the day were Eton Senna,

2:21.6

Alain Prost and Nigel Mansl. Mansl was racing for Williams at the time, but he'd spent the previous

2:28.3

two seasons at Ferrari, where Nicknamed Il Lione, the lion, his full-blooded approach to racing

2:36.0

had made him a hero of the Tiffosi, and that love was mutual.

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