S5 E10: 1990 Mexican GP - Prost's greatest drive, Mansell's stunning pass
Bring Back V10s - Classic F1 stories
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🗓️ 10 March 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Edd Straw and Sam Smith join Glenn Freeman to look back at all the major talking points from that race and everything going on in F1 at the time, including speculation over Ayrton Senna’s future, the mysterious Mexican F1 team that never was, the use of ‘antisocial’ fuel chemicals in F1, Leyton House hitting rock bottom, and Gerhard Berger’s ‘ugly’ overtake that set the scene for Mansell’s famous revenge.
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| 0:00.0 | The 1990 Mexican Grand Prix was the greatest performance of Alan Prost's Formula One career, |
| 0:10.8 | as he came through from the seventh row of the grid to win by almost half a minute. |
| 0:15.8 | But the most memorable moment of that race arguably belongs to Prost's Ferrari teammate Nigel Mansell, who stole some |
| 0:22.2 | of the limelight with one of the most famous overtakes of his career just before the start of the |
| 0:27.2 | final lap. In many ways, it was a race that perfectly summed up to of F1's iconic drivers. |
| 0:32.9 | Prost had just made the extraordinary look like another day at the office, while Mansell was grabbing |
| 0:37.9 | the headlines in the most dramatic of fashion. |
| 0:41.0 | Welcome to the final regular episode of Series 5 of Bring Back V10s, where we'll discuss |
| 0:45.9 | everything that was going on in F1 around the time of Mexico 1990. |
| 0:50.8 | Joining me for this delve back into the early part of the V10 era and not for the first time are Sam Smith and Ed Straw. |
| 0:59.0 | Sam, it's fair to say you love jumping on these for the early episodes from our era and it's great to have you back. |
| 1:05.7 | So when you think of Mexico 90, what's the first thing that comes to mind? |
| 1:09.2 | It's probably Mansell's outrageous maneuver on Berger at Periltada. |
| 1:13.8 | I think that kind of goes without saying. |
| 1:16.1 | But I have to be honest that the woeful coverage of the race via the Mexican TV feed also |
| 1:23.0 | stands out. |
| 1:24.5 | Murray and James, they're just kind of hapless bystanders from the beginning of the race |
| 1:29.1 | when unfathomably the TV producer, the Mexican TV producer, chooses to watch the entire first |
| 1:35.9 | lap on board, or for us to watch the entire first lap on board with Michaelao Alberto |
| 1:40.9 | Arrows, which was in the lower reaches of the midfield. |
| 1:45.8 | Inexplicable, maddening. |
| 1:47.5 | You can almost hear James kind of planning to smash up the monitors in frustration as he's watching this unfold. |
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