S4 E1: Alonso's rookie heroics with Minardi in 2001

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🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Bring Back V10s returns for series 4! We're kicking off by looking back at how Fernando Alonso got his break in F1, driving the slowest car on the grid. Mark Hughes and Edd Straw join host Glenn Freeman to revisit how Alonso took the backmarker team to heights that couldn't have been expected, embarrassing more established drivers and teams along the way. We also look at how close Minardi came to not racing in 2001, Alonso's two-seater F1 crash with Nigel Mansell (!), and why Renault took him off the F1 grid for the following season.ASK US ANYTHING: Get your questions in for our series finale about anything to do with F1 from 1989-2005 using #BringBackV10s on Twitter, or email [email protected]

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0:37.1	It has been too long without those engine sounds and our theme tune playing, but Bring
0:41.7	Back V10 Series 4 is finally here.
0:44.4	We've got all kinds of subjects to get stuck into over the next three months from the
0:48.5	V10 era of F1, and we'll even be treating you to a brief detour into the V8 era that followed with one special episode later in the series.
0:57.1	I'm your host, Glenn Freeman, and as always, we'll be finishing the series with a couple of episodes where we take your questions on anything to do with F1 from 1989 to 2005.
1:07.6	You can submit your questions, as always, by using the hashtag Bring Back V10s on Twitter,
1:11.9	by leaving us a five-star podcast review if you think we deserve it. And there are now two new
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