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Bring Back V10s - Classic F1 stories

S3 E2: Nurburgring 1995 - Schumacher stuns Alesi

Bring Back V10s - Classic F1 stories

The Race Media Ltd

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4.9734 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Michael Schumacher put in one of his greatest F1 drives on home soil in 1995, snatching victory from Jean Alesi's Ferrari in the closing stages after bringing down a gap that at one stage was more than 40 seconds. Edd Straw and Matt Beer join Glenn Freeman to look back at all the stories going on in F1 back in late-'95: starting with a team orders debate at Williams, how Eddie Jordan sold Eddie Irvine to Ferrari and made himself some money in the process, why Alain Prost tested for McLaren around this time, why Tyrrell plucked Gabriele Tarquini from touring cars to make a one-off final F1 appearance, how Jacques Villeneuve's imminent arrival from Indycar with Williams was being perceived after Michael Andretti's McLaren disaster in 1993, why Jean Alesi and Gerhard Berger both fell out with Ferrari management, how good the 1995 Williams really was (and how well Nigel Mansell could have done with it). Then getting into the race we look at how Alesi got himself into such a huge lead, Schumacher's bizarre strategy, the incidents both had with Hill during the race, and the significance of Hill's crash amid the personal battles he was trying to deal with during a difficult season. And of course we finish up by looking at how Schumacher hunted Alesi down, and if the Ferrari driver could have done anything to prevent the Benetton snatching the win in the closing laps. ASK US ANYTHING: Submit your questions about anything to do with F1 from 1989-2005 using #BringBackV10s on Twitter, and we'll answer as many as we can in our series finale.

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0:00.0

Michael Schumacher's finest hour in a Benetton came just four races before he would never race for the team again,

0:12.0

in a Grand Prix where he only led three laps. But this was a memorable win made all the more special at the Nürberg Ring, given the manner in which he grabbed it after a flat-out

0:21.4

chase to close down a gap of more than 40 seconds to break the hearts of Jean Alessie and

0:26.8

the Ferrari team Schumacher would be joining for the following season.

0:31.2

Welcome to episode two of the third series of Bring Back V10s, where we are looking back

0:35.8

at the 1995 European Grand Prix and all the stories

0:39.6

that were going on in F1 at the time.

0:42.5

I'm Glenn Freeman and joining me today are two guests making their first appearances of

0:46.7

the series, Ed Straw and Matt Beer.

0:49.9

And Matt will come to you first so you can have the first go of the traditional opening question.

0:55.0

So when you think back to Nuremberg in 1995, what's the first thing that comes to mind?

1:00.0

A physically and mentally broken Damon Hill limping away from an equally broken Williams,

1:06.0

but applauding as he did so.

1:07.5

Yeah, I think there's a lot about this race that summed up Damon Hills 1995,

1:11.6

so we'll come back to that in quite a lot of depth at multiple points during this episode.

1:17.2

Now, Ed, I'm absolutely certain I know what you're going to pick about this race, so don't let me down.

1:23.7

Well, I'm going to be as predictable as ever on this one and point to the F1 Swan Song for one of my favourites of the year, Gabrielle Tarkini.

1:30.1

Yes.

1:30.5

Standing in at Tyrell, finished 14th, six laps down, but it was great to see him getting one last outing in appropriately unpromising circumstances, because you just can't beat one-off random appearances.

1:40.6

The only disappointment was it wasn't in a 40-courser. Obviously, but it did get him

1:45.2

into the first F1 PlayStation game, which was the important thing. Now the series is up and running,

1:51.5

remember that for our final episode or two, we'll be taking your questions on anything to do

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