S10 E9: Frentzen's incredible 1999 season - with Heinz-Harald Frentzen!

Bring Back V10s - Classic F1 stories

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🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Bring Back V10s is revisiting the story of Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Jordan nearly pulling off one of F1's greatest championship upsets, but this time we're doing it in much more depth and with the man himself to help us tell the tale! We covered the end of the '99 season from Jordan's perspective back in season one, and now we are looking back over the whole year with Frentzen joining Glenn Freeman and Edd Straw to give us the inside story. We look back on his tense start to life at Jordan, what it was like teaming up with Damon Hill after Frentzen so famously replaced him at Williams, plus all the highs and lows of a memorable year for the team in yellow. Sadly, that means discussing the late-season heartbreak at the Nurburgring too, where we find out if it still hurts Frentzen all these years later that a potentially pivotal victory slipped through his fingers on home soil. 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 Story of how Heights-held Frenton and Jordan nearly won the World Championship back in 1999 is so famous
0:17.0	that it was one of the first topics we ever covered here on Bringback V10s.
0:21.6	Then, a couple of years ago, something special happened.
0:24.6	The man at the center of this story, Hight-Teld Frentzen himself, joined Twitter, where he quickly
0:29.6	became a cult hero, as he often replied to fans, asking him questions about his career
0:35.6	and sharing clips and memories from his time in F1.
0:38.6	That inevitably led to him becoming the most requested guest from our audience.
0:44.3	And when your social media bio is simply F1 history and beyond, as Frensen's is,
0:50.0	how could we not try to get him on the show?
0:52.4	So with a bit of encouragement online from our audience,
0:55.9	which we are very grateful for, Heinz Harold agreed to join us. And rather than just look back
1:01.3	at the end of 1999, as we did in season one, this time we are going to review his entire year
1:07.6	and get a real insight into how his career was reinvigorated after those two
1:12.3	difficult years at Williams. We'll bring Frensen in shortly, but first, I won't be doing this
1:18.3	alone as Ed's draw is here with me, Glenn Freeman. Ed, you were on the show last time we did
1:24.7	this topic and I wonder, can you remember what you chose as your
1:29.1	first thing that comes to mind back when we were recording in lockdown in 2020 and will you
1:34.9	say the same thing again? I think this is probably one of the more predictable ones because it's
1:39.4	just the Nürbergering, isn't it? The Jordan grinding to a halt coming out the pits while
1:43.8	in a commanding position.
1:45.3	I think that's one of the enduring images of the whole season. Yeah, that's fair enough. It's one of the
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