Renault stalwart Alan Permane on 30 years of stars, success and struggles at Enstone
F1 Beyond The Grid
karenellenbevan
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🗓️ 18 November 2020
⏱️ 88 minutes
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| 0:40.0 | How much loyalty is there in Formula One? Drivers flip between teams in search of the best car, |
| 0:46.1 | and the same can be said of engineers. Everyone wants to win, and they will stop at virtually |
| 0:51.7 | nothing in order to achieve their aim. Just occasionally you get a gem. Someone who wants to win |
| 0:58.8 | as much as anyone else, but who demonstrates a fierce loyalty to his band of brothers in one team. |
| 1:05.2 | And such a man is my guest this week. Welcome to Beyond the Grids with me Tom Clarkson. |
| 1:11.4 | Alan Perman has worked in the same team for more than 30 years. He joined what was Beneton |
| 1:17.5 | in the late 80s when they were based at Whitney in the UK. And he's enjoyed an uninterrupted run |
| 1:23.2 | with them ever since. As they moved to Enstone, morphed into Renault, then into Lotus and finally |
| 1:28.5 | back to Renault. He's worked with great drivers like Nelson Pique, Michael Schumacher, |
| 1:34.2 | and Fernando Alonzo, and a charismatic team boss in Flavio Bria Tori. |
| 1:39.2 | He's experienced the highest of highs, winning world titles, and the lowest of lows, |
| 1:44.4 | such as Crashgate, the controversial 2008 Singapore Grand Prix, yet he's remained loyal throughout. |
| 1:51.6 | Alan started out as a sparky and worked his way through the ranks to become a race engineer, |
| 1:57.1 | then chief engineer, through to his current position of sporting director. In short, |
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