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Bring Back V10s - Classic F1 stories

S2 E1: Ayrton Senna's final Brazilian GP

Bring Back V10s - Classic F1 stories

The Race Media Ltd

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4.9764 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Season two of #BringBackV10s is here! The wait is over, and we're kicking things off with our first episode dedicated to Ayrton Senna. Rather than choose one of the obvious Senna stories to look back at, we're reflecting on his final Brazilian GP in 1994 - the only race he completed a decent amount of laps in behind the wheel of a Williams. Glenn Freeman is joined by Edd Straw and Brazilian broadcaster Lito Cavalcanti to trace the story of Senna's final home race all the way from the day his Williams deal for 1994 was announced, to the moment he spun out while chasing Michael Schumacher. We look at what the expectations were for Senna, McLaren's audacious bid to get him to change his mind, why he felt he needed a fresh start in F1, his awareness of the pressure he'd be under following the retirement of Alain Prost, how Prost almost ended up back on the grid with McLaren, how Senna reacted when he realised Williams had lost its advantage of the previous two years, the impressive nature of his performance in Brazil even though it wasn't going to be enough to stop Schumacher, and what Adrian Newey discovered was wrong with the first iteration of the FW16.

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0:33.9

We're back. Hopefully you missed those engine sounds and our little theme tune as much as we have

0:43.3

because finally Bring Back V10's Series 2 is here. We have plenty of trips down F1 memory lane for you over the coming weeks meandering our way through the V10 era from 1989 to 2005.

0:57.0

And as we did at the end of series 1, we'll be finishing off by taking your questions.

1:02.0

So remember to ask us anything you like using the hashtag Bring Back V10s on social media,

1:07.0

and we'll get through as many as we can at the end of the series.

1:10.0

But this isn't the time to talk about the end of the series, this is all about the start of a new series.

1:14.6

And there was one man we barely talked about during our first run of episodes, so we thought it would be fitting to put that right immediately.

1:22.6

I don't really need to offer any suspense here because you've seen the episode title already and we are finally dedicating an episode to Ayrton Senna.

1:31.2

But we wanted to do it a little bit differently.

1:33.9

All the great usual stories about Senna have been told brilliantly, whether it's through

1:38.3

the film, through all the books, the magazine articles, websites.

1:42.6

We wanted to look for something else to give the Bring Back V10's treatment,

1:46.3

and we've chosen the only time he completed a significant amount of a race distance in a Williams.

1:52.5

So we're looking at his final Brazilian Grand Prix in 1994.

1:56.6

Joining me for episode one are Ed Straw, who's returning, of course, from last time,

2:01.4

and Brazilian TV, radio, magazine, journalist, extraordinaire and veteran of 50 years in the industry,

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