S6 E7: Maldonado's 2012 Spanish GP win

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🗓️ 25 August 2022

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Bring Back V10s heads into the V8 era to revisit the most recent win for Williams, taken in the 2012 Spanish Grand Prix when the unforgettable Pastor Maldonado defeated home hero Fernando Alonso for victory.

Edd Straw and Karun Chandhok join host Glenn Freeman to look back on a race that came during the eventful start to the 2012 season, which would eventually result in seven different drivers winning the first seven races.

We look at why Williams was so quick that weekend and why it failed to repeat that form during the rest of the year, how well Maldonado drove, plus if his reputation as a crash-prone pay driver was fair. Plus we hear what it was like to be inside the Williams garage when it caught fire after the race.

There's also talk about the penalty that cost Lewis Hamilton pole position, how his frustration with the team led to speculation about his future, his future team Mercedes falling out with Bernie Ecclestone in the early stages of its rise to the top, Michael Schumacher's crash with Bruno Senna that cost him pole for the next race in Monaco, plus how close Mark Webber came to signing for Ferrari for 2013, and how it could have been Kimi Raikkonen driving for Williams in 2012 as Maldonado's team-mate.

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0:00.0	The Athletic
0:02.0	For so long, Williams' final win of the V-10 era at the end of 2004 seemed like it would be the team's last ever victory in F1.
0:18.4	Yet somehow it chalked up one more, years later early in the crazy 2012 season with
0:24.6	the infamous Pastor Maldonado triumphing in a battle with home hero Fernando Alonzo to take
0:30.9	a win that still raises eyebrows when you look back through the record books today.
0:35.5	So how did Maldonardo Williams pull this off?
0:38.0	And what was everyone else playing at that weekend?
0:40.5	To help me, Glenn Freeman, answer those questions and discuss everything else that was going on
0:45.5	during a memorable spell in F1 history where seven different drivers won the opening
0:50.1	seven races of 2012 are Ed Straww and Karun Chanduck.
0:56.2	Karun, welcome to our once-a-series detour into the V8 era.
1:00.5	When you think back to Spain 2012, what's the first thing that comes to mind?
1:05.2	Just watching Pastor take the lead back from Fernando Alonzo around that first round of pit stops.
1:12.5	You know, he obviously lost it off the line and we thought, okay, well, that's done and
1:15.9	dusted is going to be an easy home win here for Fernando.
1:19.9	But just that moment where Williams pulled the trigger first, pitted first, and then he came
1:25.8	out in the lead, You know, you suddenly thought
1:28.3	this could actually happen. Yeah, it was incredible. Ed, as always with the V8 era, you were there in
1:35.1	Spain. So what stands out for you? It has to be the unique way William celebrated victory
1:39.8	by incinerating their garage. It's good we can look back on that with a little bit of levity
1:45.9	given quite how serious the potential consequences were. But yeah, it's not often that
1:51.5	a team winter grand prix and then has an incident of that magnitude. So that does lodging the
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