Hello to everybody, my name is Aldo Costa and you are listening beyond the grid.

Hi everyone and welcome to Beyond the Grid presented by the new Bose Noise Canceling Headphone 700.

My name's Tom Clarkson and my guest this week is a man whose name may not be immediately familiar

to all of you but I guarantee you he's got an interesting story to tell. Now if I were to ask you

who's won the most world titles in f1 history? You might immediately answer Michael Schumacher

or if you were thinking outside the box a little bit you might say Adrian Newy or Enzo Ferrari.

Well in fact it's none of them. It's an unassuming Italian engineer who's been a key part of the

sports two biggest inesties. I'm talking of course about Aldo Costa. Aldo is won 26 world

championships across a career spent predominantly with Ferrari and Mercedes although we learnt the

ropes with Minardi back in the late 80s and early 90s. While at Ferrari he worked very closely with

Ross Braun and Rory Bern and it was the respect and friendship that developed between him and

Braun that led to him switching to Mercedes at the start of this decade and unsurprisingly

more champagne spraying has followed. Aldo recently left Mercedes to join Delara

whereas job description is much wider than just f1 although he'll retain links with f1

through Delara's work with Hass. We thought it was the perfect moment to reflect on his 30 year f1

career during which he's etched his name firmly into the history books. I hope you enjoy our conversation.

Aldo welcome to the show. It's lovely to have you on Beyond the Grid. Now thank you. You have

an incredible record over the last 30 years in Formula One. By my calculations including 2019 we're

looking at 26 world titles, 199 race wins which is more than Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton put

together. I mean it's an incredible record. When I say those stats to you what does it make you feel?

Yeah it's something for me still unbelievable every day is unbelievable. Yeah my career was

yeah very very long and I had really the opportunity and the pleasure to to follow two big

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