S8 E6: 1989 Hungarian GP - Mansell's masterclass
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🗓️ 9 August 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Nigel Mansell took a stunning victory from 12th on the grid at the Hungaroring of all places, where overtaking was thought to be almost impossible. And he capped it off with one of F1's all-time great passes, ambusing Ayrton Senna as the McLaren was baulked behind the ailing Onyx of Stefan Johansson.
Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt join Glenn Freeman to revisit Mansell's brilliant drive, the rumours that Alain Prost was going to be signed as his team-mate (and how Nigel felt about that), plus we have a Tyrrell insider's recollection of a spat between Mansell and F1 newcomer Jean Alesi.
There's also talk of Ford putting pressure on Benetton, Porsche considering an F1 comeback, Yamaha's disastrous year with Zakspeed, and Bernie Ecclestone bizarrely firing shots across the Atlantic at the CART series.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.0 | Two things that rarely happened in Formula One both occurred on the same day back in the summer of 1989. |
| 0:17.0 | Firstly, a driver won from deep on the grid at the Hungara Ring of all places, |
| 0:21.7 | and secondly, that victory was achieved with a rare on-track pass on Ayrton's centre in dramatic fashion. |
| 0:28.2 | Drama tended to go hand in hand with Nigel Mansell, though, so perhaps that was to be expected. |
| 0:33.2 | And for a man famous for daring overtakes and exciting victories, |
| 0:37.0 | there are very few performances, |
| 0:38.6 | even in the conversation, to match what he pulled off in the 1989 Hungarian Grand Prix. |
| 0:44.7 | Yet while things were looking so good for Mansell on track, off track, he had no idea that |
| 0:49.3 | the rumoured arrival of Alan Prost as his new teammate for the following season was going |
| 0:53.8 | to upset his love |
| 0:54.8 | affair with Ferrari that looks so strong at this point in 1989. So joining me, Glenn Freeman, to look |
| 1:00.8 | back at all of that and much, much more. From the first year of the Bringback V10s era, we have |
| 1:05.8 | one of our go-to combinations, and that's Andrew Vanderberg and Sam Smith. Andy, this is your first |
| 1:12.0 | appearance of the season, so you can have the opening question. When you think of the |
| 1:16.1 | 1989 Hungarian Grand Prix, what's the first thing that comes to mind? Well, clearly it's Nelson |
| 1:21.8 | P.K.'s heroic charge from 17th on the grid to a fine sixth place. No, honestly, when I saw this on the episode list, |
| 1:29.8 | there's only one thing from that race that comes to mind, |
| 1:32.5 | and that is Mansell's pass for the lead. |
| 1:35.4 | It's funny, isn't it, |
| 1:36.4 | the Hungaro Ring, a track so famed for their being overtaken |
| 1:40.4 | in the first three years of its being on the calendar, |
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