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Bring Back V10s - Classic F1 stories

S1 E1: Prost fired by Ferrari (part 1)

Bring Back V10s - Classic F1 stories

The Race Media Ltd

Sports

4.9764 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Our first episode revisits the famous saga that led to Alain Prost being fired by Ferrari at the end of 1991. Glenn Freeman is joined by Karun Chandhok and Edd Straw to trace this story back over the course of more than 12 months. How did Nigel Mansell's involvement in late-1990 lead to the first cracks appearing between Prost and Ferrari? Why was Ferrari so confident it would start 1991 ahead of its rivals? What was going on behind the scenes at Maranello? Why did it release two new cars in a single season? Why was the second of those cars so good on its debut and disappointing after that? This episode takes us up to the middle of 1991, when things were starting to look up for this partnership even if the chance of another world title push was off the table. BE PART OF OUR SERIES FINALE: Send your questions and comments about anything to do with F1 from 1989-2005 to @wearetherace using #BringBackV10s and it could be included in our 'Ask us anything' series finale. https://www.the-race.com

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0:00.0

Welcome to this brand new podcast series brought to you by The Race.

0:09.1

This is Bring Back V10s, where we celebrate a classic era when Formula One was loud on the track and off it.

0:16.0

We'll be looking back in depth at the races, personalities and storylines that define the V10 era of F1,

0:22.5

which we are classing from 1989 to 2005.

0:26.3

We hope you enjoy taking these trips down memory lane with us for this new series,

0:30.4

and we want to hear from you as well.

0:32.6

Our season finale will be an entire podcast dedicated to the topics you want us to talk about.

0:38.2

So make sure you get in touch with at We Are the Race on social media or send questions

0:43.1

to ask at therace.com to get us talking about what you want to hear from the era that we're

0:48.5

going to be focusing on.

0:49.8

And let us know if you want us to break our own rules as well.

0:53.0

For example, we'd be happy to bring

0:54.7

back V8s if you'd like to hear stories from 2006 to 2013. Whatever it is you want to hear,

1:01.0

we want to hear from you about it. We're going to crack on with our first episode now and

1:05.9

proving the point that we are prepared to break our own rules. Our first episode focuses on

1:10.7

a team that ran V12 engines. But let's look break our own rules, our first episode focuses on a team that ran V-12 engines.

1:13.2

But let's look past our own hypocrisy and start telling the tale of how Alam Prost ended up getting fired by Ferrari in 1991.

1:21.6

I'm Glenn Freeman and joining me for our first episode, I'm delighted to welcome X Grand Prix

1:26.9

Racer and Sky Sports F1 pundit Karun Chandok. Hi again. Nice to see you. And you, Karun, thanks for having us. Now, you're well known for being a fan of all things F1 history, so where does our V10 era of F1 rank for you? To me, this is the era that I grew up watching and fell in love with F1.

1:46.8

I suppose it was maybe a little bit before this.

1:51.1

87 was when the British Grand Prix was the first race I remember watching.

1:56.4

But certainly the early 90s were my favorite era of Formula One.

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