S4 E3: France 2002 - Raikkonen's near miss, Schumacher makes history

Bring Back V10s - Classic F1 stories

The Race Media Ltd

Sports

4.9 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The 2002 French Grand Prix will forever be remembered as the day Michael Schumacher made history by equalling the great Juan Manuel Fangio's then-record of five Formula 1 world championships. But it so nearly went down in F1 folklore as the scene of Kimi Raikkonen's maiden victory. Gary Anderson and Mark Hughes join Glenn Freeman to recall their memories from being at Magny-Cours that weekend. As well as hearing Gary's first-hand insight from a dramatic weekend for Jordan - which included almost bringing back Heinz-Harald Frentzen as a last-minute stand-in one year on from him being fired by the team - we look back on the beginning of the end for Arrows, why Ferrari was so dominant in 2002, what made Williams so fast on Saturdays and so underwhelming on Sundays, how Jenson Button lost his Renault drive and ended up at BAR for 2003, and the controversy surrounding Schumacher's pass for the win as Raikkonen slid wide on oil - which almost resulted in a McLaren protest after the race. ASK US ANYTHING: Get your questions in for our series finale by using #BringBackV10s on Twitter to ask us about anything you like to do with F1 from 1989-2005. Or leave us a five-star podcast review and submit a question there too!

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	With 132 million users and an unrivaled selection of sports trading cards and memorabilia,
0:06.9	eBay is the home of collectibles.
0:09.7	Premium trading card singles, live card breaks, unique game-used memorabilia, all the epic
0:15.4	finds you need are right here on eBay.
0:18.0	Collect with confidence by downloading the eBay app on the app store or by going
0:22.4	straight to eBay.com slash The Athletic. That's eBay.com slash The Athletic. Start building your
0:29.6	collection today.
0:37.0	The 2002 French Grand Prix will always be remembered as the day Michael Schumacher made history,
0:43.3	winning his fifth world title ridiculously early in the season to equal one Manuel Fangio's
0:49.3	record number of championships.
0:51.3	But it could so easily have been a race remembered instead for Kimmy
0:54.9	Reichenen's maiden F1 victory, were it not for oil on the track in the closing stages.
1:00.7	And even after the checkered flag, Schumacher's win was subject to controversy. Welcome to another
1:06.1	episode of Bring Back V-Tens. And joining me, Glenn Freeman, this week to look back on the many storylines from this sunny
1:12.6	weekend in France, are two men who were there at ManiCorps, Gary Anderson, who was busy
1:17.7	running things in the Jordan Garage, and Mark Hughes.
1:20.9	Gary, welcome to your first appearance of Series 4.
1:24.2	So when you think back to the 2002 French Grand Prix weekend, what's the first thing
1:29.2	that comes to mind? And I assume it's Jordan related. Yeah, it is really. I mean, it was all
1:34.3	about points. We've gone into the 11th race of the season, and basically we'd had a very
1:40.0	bad start with reliability problems. We had had three points scores, but you know, when you
1:45.1	think back in those years, it was you got points to sixth so you could have a really good weekend
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Race Media Ltd, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Race Media Ltd and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.