When Michael Schumacher moved from Benetton to Ferrari for 1996, nobody could have predicted the level of dominance it would eventually lead to in the early 2000s.

On this episode of Bring Back V10s, we're revisiting how this move came together.

The other offers Schumacher turned down and the implications

his decision had on the rest of the F1 driver market at a time when he was the hottest commodity

on the grid. I'm Glenn Freeman and joining me for this look back into one of the defining

storylines of the V10 era, our ex-F1 driver and Sky Sports expert Karun Chandok,

and our website editor at the race, Matt Beer.

Okeroon, welcome to your first appearance of series four,

and hopefully not your last.

You know how this works by now,

so when you think back to Schumacher signing for Ferrari

in the summer of 1995, what's the first thing that comes to mind?

Probably surprise. You know, this was a guy who just won his first ball championship with

Benetton. He was at that stage really well on course for his way, on his way to win the 95

championship before the end of the season. So, you know, why leave that? And this was a team

that seemed built around him, right? None of the teammates really were challenging him. So I guess

it was surprised, was probably my first reaction. But as we said, you know, at that point,

none of us would have realized the level of domination to come.

Yeah, and we'll get into the reason, the supposed reason that Michael had had enough at Benetton

quite early on in this episode. But Matt, welcome along as well to series four. Where does your

mind wander to first with this topic? Money,ive amounts of money. Because so much of the

coverage back then was about this, what seemed at the time like a crazy salary he was being paid

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