The first F1 win for a V10 engine was somewhat overshadowed at the 1989 San Marino Grand Prix,

thanks to Gerhard Berger surviving a fireball accident early on, and the war between Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna truly kicking off after this race.

Those were just two of the many

talking points in F1 at this early stage of the era we celebrate here on Bring Back V10s.

And joining me, Glenn Freeman, to look back at the second race of 1989 are the two men who

we always seem to turn to when we go back this far, Ed Straw and Sam Smith.

Sam, welcome to your first appearance of series four. So we'll come to you first. What's the

first thing that comes to mind for you when you think back to Imala 89? Well, as I haven't spoken

to Ed for ages, it's got to be Nicola Larini's superb qualifying performance. They've

got him 14th on the grid.

But no, well, we'll come back to that in a dedicated, a seller episode soon, I'm sure. But being serious, it's got to be that awful accident that befell Gerhard Berger.

I mean, I can recall exactly where I was as a 14-year-old watching that with my dad having

a TV Sunday roast. and my dad's going

for a Burton as he sort of screamed at the TV to get burger out of there and for the

marshals to save him effectively. It was such a shocking thing to witness on a Sunday afternoon.

And it sort of reemphasized the peril, if you will, of F1 cars

around a track like Imola, which was always pretty unforgiving at the best of time. So, yeah,

certainly one of those moments that sort of seems to slow down. And, you know, you always remember

where you are when you see something as hideous as that. And thank goodness that Berger survived.

Yeah, and we'll talk about that and thank goodness that Berger survived.

Yeah, and we'll talk about that in a lot more depth later on. Ed, welcome along. Sam's obviously taken your Loreni reference there and I've got more bad news for you because there was

initially a question about pre-qualifying that had made it into our running order, but I'm

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