S1 E2: Prost fired by Ferrari (part 2)

Bring Back V10s - Classic F1 stories

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🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Our monster first story from F1's past reaches its chaotic conclusion as we reach the final weeks of Alain Prost's time at Ferrari. Karun Chandhok and Edd Straw return to help Glenn Freeman chart the total downfall of this relationship. Why did Ferrari's promising debut for its new car mid-season not carry on? What were the failings behind the scenes at Ferrari that showed how far behind the times it was in F1? Should Jean Alesi have won a race? Why was Ferrari still obsessed with peak engine power when its rivals were moving on? How did Michael Andretti fit into all of this? What was Prost expecting to do for 1992, and how did he get on when he later tested a Ligier? And most importantly, did he really get fired for calling the Ferrari a truck?!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bring Back V10s, the new podcast brought to you by The Race, where we take a trip down memory lane to some classic stories from F1's history.
0:14.0	We're back for episode two and thanks to everyone that has got in touch already with your feedback about our new series.
0:20.2	And remember, if there's a topic you'd like us to talk about from 1989 to 2005 in F1,
0:26.1	get in touch with at We Are the Race on Twitter, or email ask at therace.com.
0:32.0	Now, in our first episode, we set the scene for everything to unravel between Alan Pross and Ferrari in 1991.
0:38.9	But at the end of that episode, things were looking quite good, with Ferrari's new 643
0:43.6	challenging for victory on its debut at the French Grand Prix.
0:47.4	Unfortunately, that was about as good as it would get.
0:49.9	Back with me to see this story through to its conclusion, our ex-F1 driver and SkySports
0:54.5	F1 pundit, Karun Chanduck. Good to be back. Thanks, Karun. And F1 journalist, Ed Straw, is back with us as well. Jens, thanks for coming back for episode two. Glad we didn't lose you after episode one. As we were set in the scene through episode one, it didn't look that bad. there were a few occasional cracks
0:52.0	but we sort of talked about the fact that
0:54.0	it didn't all look too bad. There were a few occasional cracks, but we sort of
1:11.9	talked about the fact that it didn't all look too bad in the summer of 91. So are we looking
1:16.4	forward to getting our teeth into the real breakdown of this relationship now? Yeah, I think so.
1:21.1	I mean, you know, when we got to Magnicore, Ferrari seemed to be competitive again and, you know,
1:27.1	the car's only a week old and they've already started a challenge for victory., and, you know, the car's only a week old, and they've already
1:29.0	started a challenge for victory, so all the ingredients are there for a, for a, you know, a good
1:35.3	second half of the season. They're probably too far behind a challenge for the championship,
1:39.8	but Ross is probably sitting there thinking, I can win three or four races by the end of the
1:43.9	year.
1:44.7	That's amazing how quickly it all turns around because even though in the previous episode
1:48.0	we talked about all these conditions, etc. of still going into first part of 91, the main
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