S4 E4: Imola 1989 - Senna Prost war begins + Berger's fireball escape

Bring Back V10s - Classic F1 stories

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🗓️ 29 July 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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The 1989 San Marino Grand Prix at Imola was the setting for the first proper eruption of the war between Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost. But the circumstances that led to the McLaren team-mates no longer speaking to each other only came about on that day because of a restart after Gerhard Berger's horrifying fireball accident that the Austrian was lucky to survive.Edd Straw and Sam Smith join Glenn Freeman to discuss all the major talking points in F1 from just the second race of the V10 era, including McLaren's eight-day test in reaction to failing to win the first race of the year, why some teams were still running old cars, the shock failure to qualify of Michele Alboreto in the only new Tyrrell at the race, Birmingham's plans to host a grand prix, Johnny Herbert's wake-up call that made him realise an F1 career wasn't going to be straightforward, rumours of Yamaha exploring F1 for Toyota, plus an in-depth look at Berger's crash and the fallout from the Senna vs Prost rivalry kicking into overdrive.ASK US ANYTHING: Get your questions in about anything to do with F1 from 1989-2005 for our series finale, either by using #BringBackV10s on Twitter or contacting [email protected]

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1:07.1	The first F1 win for a V10 engine was somewhat overshadowed at the 1989 San Marino Grand Prix,
1:13.8	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.
1:22.7	Those were just two of the many talking points in F1 at this early stage of the era we celebrate here on
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