S10 E4: Hungary '90 - Boutsen's no-stop masterpiece

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🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Only one of Thierry Boutsen's three F1 wins came in dry conditions, but it was a famous victory, as he held off the field for the entire 1990 Hungarian Grand Prix, going as slowly as he could out front to make his tyres last the distance without requiring a pitstop. Edd Straw and Andrew van de Burgt join Glenn Freeman to look back on Boutsen's masterclass, and the chaos that went on behind him, including two collisions that involved McLaren drivers punting people off at the Hungaroring's tricky chicane. Plus, we dissect Ayrton Senna's race, as he came back from a puncture to miss out on victory to his good friend by 0.2 seconds. As always we work our way through the other big topics in F1 at the time, including Nigel Mansell's supposed retirement, Williams trying to sign Senna, Benetton laying the foundations for its mid-1990s title success, the decline of Lotus, and Eddie Jordan getting very upset with the politics of F1 before his team had even joined the grid. 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	The Hungarian Grand Prix didn't have a great reputation for classic races back in the V10 era, although the 1990 race was an eventful follow-up to the memorable 1989 event that we've already covered here
0:21.3	on Bring Back V10s, so the Hungara Ring clearly wasn't all bad. But whereas Nigel Matzall
0:25.8	charged from 12th on the grid to win in 1989, a year later, Tieri Bootson's Williams led every
0:32.4	lap from pole position, effectively going as slowly as he possibly could to preserve his tires to get through
0:38.1	the whole race without stopping.
0:40.4	The Belgian's unflappable cork in the bottle performance created plenty of action behind
0:45.7	him, including a couple of controversial late-race collisions, and in the end he had to get
0:50.4	his elbows out to fend off his good friend Ayrton Senna, who charged back from a puncture early in the race to miss out on victory by two tenths of a second.
0:59.9	To discuss all of that and much more with me, Glenn Freeman, here on Bring Back V10s, we have Andrew Vanderberg and Ed Straw.
1:07.4	Andy, welcome to your first appearance of series 10, so tell us, when you think of the 1990 Hungarian Grand Prix, what's the first thing that comes to mind?
1:15.7	Well, first of all, congratulations on making it to 10 series, Glenn.
1:19.2	I know.
1:19.7	That's a real milestone, that is.
1:21.6	That's a big number.
1:22.4	It is.
1:22.8	And I remember when you pitched this idea to me a million years ago in a different lifetime. It didn't take me long
1:27.9	to get the idea of the concept, but I didn't think it would have this much legs. So, yeah,
1:32.3	you've done well. It was very much. It was very much. We'll do a series. And if anyone
1:38.0	listens, if anyone likes it, we might do another one. And then here we are, was it, four years
1:42.7	later. Series 10, yeah, no signs of,
1:46.0	no signs of stopping any time soon either. That amazing stuff. Yeah, so I think I was on that
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