S4 E2: How Schumacher's Ferrari move rocked F1

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🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Michael Schumacher's move to Ferrari for 1996 changed F1 forever. In this episode Karun Chandhok and Matt Beer join host Glenn Freeman to revisit what was going on in the F1 driver market during 1995, when Schumacher resisted offers to drive a faster car or for more money to take on the project of rebuilding Ferrari. We also look at the other drivers affected by his move, from those who had to wait for Schumacher to decide his future before they could sort their drives out for 1996, to the ones who turned down opportunities to be his team-mate before Eddie Irvine got the drive. We then follow the start of Schumacher's life at Ferrari all the way from a tense first meeting with car designer John Barnard, through winter testing, the late arrival of an ugly and unreliable car, to a Ferrari debut that offered more promise than had been expected when the F1 world set off for Australia in March 1996. ASK US ANYTHING: Get your questions in about anything in F1 from 1989-2005 for our series finale episodes using #BringBackV10s on Twitter, or email [email protected]

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0:36.5	When Michael Schumacher moved from Benetton to Ferrari for 1996, nobody could have predicted
0:42.5	the level of dominance it would eventually lead to in the early 2000s.
0:46.8	On this episode of Bring Back V10s, we're revisiting how this move came together.
0:51.4	The other offers Schumacher turned down and the implications his decision had
0:55.5	on the rest of the F1 driver market at a time when he was the hottest commodity on the grid.
1:01.1	I'm Glenn Freeman and joining me for this look back into one of the defining storylines of the
1:05.7	V10 era, our ex-F1 driver and Sky Sports expert Karun Chandok and our website editor at the race, Matt Beer.
1:13.9	A Karun, welcome to your first appearance of series four and hopefully not your last.
1:18.6	You know how this works by now.
1:20.3	So when you think back to Schumacher signing for Ferrari in the summer of 1995,
1:25.6	what's the first thing that comes to mind?
1:27.3	Probably surprise.
1:28.6	You know, this was a guy who just won his first ball championship with Benetton.
1:32.5	He was at that stage really well on course for his way,
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