How does a Formula One team go from failing to qualify for a race to almost winning the next one?

That's the question we'll attempt to answer on this latest episode of Bring Back V10s,

where we revisit the 1990 French Grand Prix.

It's an incredibly famous race in F1 history and if you don't

yet know why that is, by the end of this episode, we're sure you will. Before we crack on,

remember if you'd like to ask us a question for our series finale, you can do it using

the hashtag Bring Back V10s on Twitter or leave us a review on your podcast platform of choice

and throw in a question there as well,

and we'll add them to our list. We've had a bunch of reviews since series two started, actually, so I'll give a quick thank you to Kieran, Nico, Chris and Cisco, who are some of the most recent listeners to leave us a review. They are much appreciated, and like I say, I do make sure that we read them all. I'm Glenn Freeman and joining me to

look back on a brilliantly bizarre weekend in F1 history are two people who are very fond of this

race, Sam Smith and Ed Straw. Sam will let you go first with the opening question because when

we discussed you being on this episode ahead of time, you declared your levels of adoration for this race to be not far behind Eds.

So you can take the opening question, which is, of course, when you think of this race, what's the first thing that comes to mind?

Well, that's a big billing, Glenn. Thanks.

But I think it was just the sheer excitement of seeing Ivan Capelli about to win his first Grand Prix after failing

to qualify a fortnight before in Mexico. I was just so sure that he was going to do it. Pross

had been looking for several laps and just didn't seem to have an answer to that Miami Blue

late in the house. I was just stunned into immobility, really,

at the prospects of Capelli winning his first Grand Prix

in such an unlikely manner.

And then that sense of crushing despair, I think,

as he just faltered with an issue in the last few laps

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