S7 E4: 2006 Hungarian GP - Button's first F1 win

Bring Back V10s - Classic F1 stories

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4.9 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Bring Back V10s ventures into the first year of F1's V8 era to look back at the 2006 Hungarian Grand Prix, where Jenson Button finally claimed the first win of his F1 career. Edd Straw and Scott Mitchell-Malm join host Glenn Freeman to discuss a crazy wet-dry race in great detail, looking at how Button and Honda triumphed, the brilliance of Fernando Alonso before he was forced into retirement, and a day to forget for Michael Schumacher. They also revisit the major news topics from the summer of 2006, including Mark Webber's split from Williams, the Renault mass damper controversy, and how title rivals Alonso and Schumacher both ended up picking up unique penalties that are no longer given out in F1 today. GET IN TOUCH: Use the hashtag #BringBackV10s on Twitter or email [email protected] Did you know The Race has an app? Download it today on iOS or Android

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0:46.9	Hungarian Grand Prix, coming through from 14th on the grid to win a chaotic and rare rain-affected
0:52.5	race at the Hungara Ring. As we'll explore, there was more to this victory than just sheer good fortune,
0:58.0	and beyond Button's eye-bulging celebrations in Park Fermay,
1:01.0	this was a race with plenty of other storylines,
1:04.0	including an escalation in what was becoming an increasingly tense championship battle
1:09.0	between Renault's Fernando Alonzo and Ferrari's Michael Schumacher.
1:12.6	So joining me, Glenn Freeman, to look back on everything going on in F1, around the time of this race from F1's V8 era,
1:19.6	plus all the action that took place once the lights went out on the Sunday, are Ed Straw and Scott Mitchell,
1:24.6	who will hopefully avoid turning this episode of Bring Back V10s into a takeover for the Race F1 podcast where you can normally hear them together.
1:33.1	So Ed, I will come to you first basically to tell you not to default into hosting the show and asking Scott questions about F1 in 2023.
1:40.4	When you think of the 2006 Hungarian Grand Prix, what's the first thing that comes to mind?
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