S12 E10: What if Schumacher chose McLaren over Ferrari? Your questions answered!
Bring Back V10s - Classic F1 stories
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🗓️ 4 September 2025
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Season 12 of Bring Back V10s concludes with a brilliant selection of questions about F1’s V10 era that came in from The Race Members’ Club. Glenn Freeman is joined by Mark Hughes, Ben Anderson and Edd Straw to tackle a wide range of topics, including how F1’s modern-day driving guidelines would be applied to the Michael Schumacher/Damon Hill Adelaide 1994 collision, who was most at fault for the collapse of the Prost-Peugeot partnership, how refuelling would have changed the Ayrton Senna/Alain Prost dynamic at the start of the V10 era, what would have happened if Michael Schumacher chose McLaren over Ferrari for 1996, plus much more including our verdict on a brilliant submission of the ultimate Bring Back V10s 16-race F1 calendar.
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| 0:25.0 | The Athletic As we approach the finish line of the 12th season of Bring Back V10s, which is a number I can't believe we've made it to, that means it's time to end this series as we have every series and as we did in the very beginning, which is to take questions from our audience about F1's brilliant V10 era. |
| 0:51.8 | As always, we've had way too many questions from the race members club this time. |
| 0:56.3 | So as well as piling through some of our favourites here, we'll do more members-only bonus shows |
| 1:01.3 | between now and the start of season 13. And joining me, Glenn Freeman, to work through the |
| 1:06.7 | batch that we've got today are Ed Straw, Ben Anderson and Mark Hughes. Mark, good to have you back |
| 1:12.6 | to help us see out season 12. Is there a particular question that's caught your eye from our |
| 1:17.2 | selection today? There's a couple actually, but one of them's about Damon Hill, so I'll leave that |
| 1:21.7 | for Ben. But the other one is a fascinating what if, which I'm looking forward to getting my teeth into, yeah. Yeah, you always enjoy the what ifs, and so do we. And I think so do the audience. We get loads of loads of those. They like to change a tiny thing about the era and then kind of ask us for all the butterfly effect moments. Ben, the Damon Hill question has been left open for you. Is that your standout? |
| 1:46.2 | Well, as soon as you sent round the running order and I saw that that question wasn't assigned |
| 1:51.2 | to me, I was furious and put a note in to say, I have to say something about this. So, yeah, |
| 1:56.6 | obviously the Damon Hill question. But yeah, as Mark said, quite a few fascinating what-ifs. And I'm also looking forward to Ed tackling the flaky engine manufacturers of the era. Yeah, we might be there a while on that one. Ed, has Ben already preempted what you're going to pick here? Unusually, Ben has hit the nail right on the head with that one. That is the most fun question because there's all sorts of different approaches you could take to it. So I quite enjoyed myself having a little bit of think about the best way to tackle it. And I suspect people might not be entirely surprised at the tack I've opted for with that one when we get to it. Well, look forward to that. And thank you again to everyone in a race members club who sent questions. I think at the time of recording, |
| 2:34.6 | we're up to about 180 questions submitted. I will probably do about a tenth of that here |
| 2:40.0 | if we do well. So let's quack on. First question, and this is the one where Ben has left a note |
| 2:44.9 | that says, obviously, I have something to say here as well. But it's going to go to Ed first, |
| 2:50.1 | and it's from Bazanator 201, who says, as a Schumacher |
| 2:53.6 | fan, I never really got the uproar around the 1994 championship deciding collision. |
| 2:59.5 | He'll cut across late and was never more than about halfway alongside Michael. |
| 3:05.0 | But Ed, this is the interesting bit. |
| 3:06.9 | How would modern stewarding assess this |
| 3:09.3 | situation given the current rules of engagement? So your job, Ed, is to apply the current |
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