S10 E3: Argentina '98 - Schumacher fights back

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🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Michael Schumacher turned the tide on McLaren's dominant start to the 1998 F1 season with a surprise victory in Argentina, having collided with David Coulthard to take the lead early in the race. Ben Anderson and Matt Beer join Glenn Freeman to look back on how Schumacher and Ferrari got themselves into the hunt after McLaren dominated the first two races of the year, and how the Goodyear tyre that helped Ferrari worked against reigning champion Williams. They also discuss how F1's new rules for 1998 were being viewed by the public, Jordan's nightmare start to 1998, McLaren signing a teenage karter called Lewis Hamilton, Benetton's failed attempt to steal Ford away from Stewart, and Jean Alesi running into Sauber team-mate Johnny Herbert on their first lap out of the pits during practice! Want MORE BBV10s? Join The Race Members' Club on Patreon and get bonus episodes, including the 1997 Revisited Series! Head to Patreon.com/therace Follow The Race on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook Check out our latest videos on YouTube Download our app on iOS or Android

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0:00.0	The Athletic
0:02.0	MacLarren looked to be on course to cruise to the 1998 World Championship after the opening two races, but that all changed in Argentina.
0:19.0	Ferrari found its form with the help of a new front tire from Goodyear that made Williams'
0:23.3	car worse, and the Michael Schumacher David Coulthard rivalry had its first big flashpoint
0:29.1	when they came to blows early in the race contesting the lead.
0:32.7	Meanwhile, a flat start for F1's radical new rules for 1998 had already prompted an investigation from
0:39.5	the FIA into improving the racing for the future, showing that some things never change in
0:44.4	F1. I'm Glenn Freeman and joining me to look back at what felt like a bit of a surprise Ferrari
0:50.0	win at the time of Ben Anderson and Matt Beer. Ben, we'll come to you first. When you think back
0:56.0	to the 1998 Argentinian Grand Prix, what's the first thing that comes to mind? That's a long way
1:02.3	to think back for me. That's how this show works. Difficult time. Yes, of course. Yeah. And a difficult
1:09.2	time in my F1 fandom, obviously, with the Traviles of Damon.
1:13.9	But I think in this case, it was mainly a feeling, a feeling of hope, because the first two races, as you alluded to, McLaren absolutely smashed everyone.
1:23.3	They, like, they lapped the field in Melbourne pretty much near as lapped the field in Brazil.
1:29.2	We're qualifying three quarters of a second to a second ahead of everyone else.
1:33.3	And you just thought, oh, this is going to be a silver wash.
1:37.0	The whole season is just going to be, it's going to be like 1988, but in different colours.
1:42.1	And so Argentina, the way it happened,
1:45.4	and like you say, a surprise Ferrari win,
1:47.5	even though I wasn't a fan of Michael Schumacher winning races at that time,
1:51.3	I took it because it was like anything but another McLaren
1:54.7	smash the field race.
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