S3 E3: French GP 1989 - Prost quits McLaren, first corner chaos

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🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Alain Prost won the 1989 French Grand Prix, but was what was far more significant that weekend was his announcement that he was leaving McLaren at the end of the year. Edd Straw and Sam Smith join Glenn Freeman to discuss everything that was going on in F1 early in our Bring Back V10s era, from the driver market ramifications of Prost's decision, how toxic his relationship with Ayrton Senna was by this point in the year, why Tyrrell needed a new driver at short notice and how Eddie Jordan played hardball before releasing Jean Alesi, Mauricio Gugelmin's explanation of the huge pile-up he triggered at the start, why Johnny Herbert was dropped by Benetton, Onyx's plan to get a 'star driver' and Porsche engines, plus how Nigel Mansell charged from an unexpected pitlane start to finish on the podium. ASK US ANYTHING: Submit your questions about anything to do with F1 from 1989-2005 using #BringBackV10s on Twitter

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0:00.0	Alan Frost won his home Grand Prix in 1989, but that wasn't really one of the main
0:10.0	talking points from that weekend.
0:12.2	In fact, it wasn't even the most interesting thing Cross did while he was at Paul
0:15.6	Rickard.
0:16.6	That's all to come in another episode of Bring Back V10s brought to you by The Race.
0:20.7	I'm Glenn Freeman, and to discuss everything that was going on in F1 around the 1989 French Grand Prix,
0:26.6	we're reuniting the team that discussed the 1990 French Grand Prix in our last series,
0:32.6	so I'm joined by Ed Straar and Sam Smith.
0:35.6	Now Ed, I imagine you're not quite as fond of this race as you are in the 1990 edition
0:41.2	because a Leighton House didn't almost win this one.
0:44.4	So for our opening question, what's the first thing you think of when you look back at France
0:48.3	89?
0:49.2	I think it's the same as for many people.
0:50.9	It's the Leighton House of Mauritouzumind, upside down, flying through the
0:55.1	air. Just a very distinctive moment for Leighton House. And actually, I now attached to that, thanks to a
1:00.9	tweet that Mike Gascoigne put out earlier this year, he revealed the fact that he used that photos,
1:05.3	those sequence of photos, to basically copy the diffuser to feed into the following years McLaren.
1:10.4	So that's an interesting
1:11.0	little extra tip bit. But it's not 1990 France, but it's a great Leighton House race, not just for
1:15.9	that, but who got fastest lap? Maricio Gouselman, his only fastest lap. So this is a, it's second
1:22.8	place in the fun French Grand Prix, but it's still good for the old Leighton House story, which
1:28.1	always amuses me.
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