S10 E7: Stewart's rollercoaster debut season
Bring Back V10s - Classic F1 stories
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4.9 • 764 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2024
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, Bring Back V10s turns the clock back to 1997 when three-time world champion Jackie Stewart and his son Paul joined the F1 grid with their eponymous team Stewart Grand Prix.
Glenn Freeman is joined by Edd Straw and Matt Beer to look back on what proved an up and down debut season in the sport, which included Rubens Barrichello’s stunning podium in Monaco, a woeful reliability record that resulted in just eight classified finishes out of a possible thirty-four, underwhelming performances from the then much-heralded Jan Magnussen, and behind-the-scenes political manoeuvring with the FIA…
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:10.1 | Two legendary world champions joined the F1 Gridders team owners in 1997, but while Alan Prost |
| 0:16.3 | created Prost Grand Prix by taking over an existing team in Ligier, Jackie Stewart decided to start |
| 0:22.0 | from scratch with his son Paul to launch Stewart Grand Prix. |
| 0:26.0 | We've already covered the first season of Prost, but until now, on Bring Back V-10s, |
| 0:29.9 | we've not shown Stewart that much love, making the short-lived team for the end of the 1990s |
| 0:34.8 | one of our most requested topics. |
| 0:37.0 | So we're giving the team the full treatment today to make up for that, |
| 0:39.9 | looking back at the first year of Stuart Grand Prix, |
| 0:42.7 | all the way from the launch of its car in December 1996, |
| 0:46.4 | to its first year ending with a bizarre shot across the boughs from the FIA. |
| 0:51.3 | And joining me, Glenn Freeman, to take us on that journey, |
| 0:56.1 | we have Matt Beer and Ed Straw. |
| 1:01.3 | Matt, we know you love the 1997 season, so I shouldn't have been surprised when you volunteered quickly for this episode. |
| 1:03.4 | When you think of Stewart's first season in F1, then what's the first thing that comes to |
| 1:07.4 | mind? |
| 1:08.3 | Desperately waiting for Jan Maguson to not look rubbish. |
| 1:11.9 | Yeah, we will cover that in quite some detail. Ed, what about you? Given your love of back |
| 1:16.8 | markers, were you more lowler than Stuart in 1997, at least at the beginning? Yeah, that certainly |
| 1:21.8 | drew the attention a little bit more. I think the problem was that Stuart was a bit too proper |
| 1:25.2 | for the combination of Ford and Jackie Stewart. So it felt very different to the average new team, was a bit too proper for the combination of Ford and Jackie Stewart. |
| 1:28.1 | So it felt very different to the average new team, a little bit too serious and too |
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