S4 E7: Brazil 2003 - The crazy F1 race with the wrong winner

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🗓️ 19 August 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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The 2003 Brazilian Grand Prix will forever be remembered as a race of chaos where the wrong driver was declared the winner straight after the race.Mark Hughes and Gary Anderson join host Glenn Freeman to revisit their memories of being at Interlagos that day, including Gary's first-hand account of how Jordan pulled off its shock victory with Giancarlo Fisichella in one of the slowest cars on the grid. We also look at Ferrari's rocky start to 2003, how McLaren was leading the championship with an updated 2002 car, why Williams hadn't hit the ground running yet, the debate around F1's sweeping rule changes for the new season including one-shot qualifying, the FIA getting tough with implementing the HANS device, Jordan's 200th race, why Michael Schumacher was a fan of driver aids, how Gary upset Ross Brawn with a suggestion made to Charlie Whiting before the delayed start to the race, the difference between Michelin and Bridgestone's intermediate tyres, why no teams had full wets for the awful conditions, what caused the car park of crashed cars at Turn 3, where Jordan's clever strategy might have put Fisichella without the huge accidents that ended the race early, and why there was so much confusion over which driver had won the race - which didn't become official until five days later! ASK US ANYTHING: Get your questions in about F1 from 1989-2005 for our series finale using #BringBackV10s on Twitter or email [email protected]

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0:37.4	It took five days for the correct winner of the 2003 Brazilian Grand Prix to be declared
0:43.6	in one of the more bizarre endings to a Grand Prix in recent memory.
0:48.2	The confusion summed up a chaotic weekend, not helped by the weather at Interlagos, as
0:53.0	F1 was still coming to terms with controversial
0:55.6	new rule changes, and Ferrari's dominance of the previous season was quickly becoming
1:01.0	a distant memory, as it once again came away empty-handed.
1:05.0	I'm Glenn Freeman, and on this episode of Bring Back V10s, we're looking back at a crazy
1:10.0	weekend in F1 history and how
1:12.3	Giancarlo Fickelos Jordan eventually ended up as the race winner several days after the
1:17.9	checkered flag fell. Joining me for this one are the show's go-to pairing when it comes to this
1:23.2	part of the V10 era because Mark Hughes and Gary Anderson were both there that day in Brazil
1:28.6	and they've got plenty of firsthand memories they can share with us. So Mark will come to you
1:34.3	first. You were covering this race and I assume you wrote an in-depth analysis that night
1:40.3	that not long after it was published had the wrong winner in it. But what's the first
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