Lotus is one of the most famous names in Formula One history, but the great team that took names like Clark, Fittipaldi, Andretti and Senna to greatness was a shadow of its former self by the 1990s.

Its struggle to stay afloat, fizzled out in 1994 1994 when Lotus bowed out of F1 having failed to

score a point in its final season.

But could it have all been so different if one terrible piece of misfortune had been avoided

in the final months of the team's life?

To help me, Glenn Freeman, answer that on this episode of Bring Back V10s.

We'll be joined by a very special guest in a moment, but for starters, let's welcome one who's a bit less special, Ed Straw.

And Ed, you had to be on this episode because a team failing to score a point and then going out of existence is right up your street.

So you know how these episodes start by now.

1994 was a miserable year for Lotus. But when you think back to the end of this famous team,

what's the first thing that comes to mind? It's the agonising moment. Italian Grand Prix,

Johnny Herbert, fourth on the grid, chance of a great result, punted by the Irvin at the first

corner, out of the race with that car,

magic engine, opportunity lost, even re-watching that race today with the build-up, knowing exactly

what happens, there's still that sense of disappointment. It was an amazing story, an amazing

performance swing, and just such a big story at the time and Johnny of course was F1's Mr

misfortune at that time so it's just one of those memorable heart-sinking moments where I think

every every neutral F1 fan would have would have just been so disappointed to see what happened

because it could have been just such a wonderful story but yeah all ended by one unfortunate

misjudgment.

Before we bring in our special guest a quick reminder that there's still time to get

your questions in for our series finale where you can ask us anything about F1 from

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