Special episode: Bring Back V8s!

Bring Back V10s - Classic F1 stories

The Race Media Ltd

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4.9 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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A festive present from Bring Back V10s: We receive plenty of requests to talk about the V8 era of F1 from 2006-2013, so for a one-off special, we've taken questions about those years from our readers on the-race.com. Mark Hughes and Edd Straw, who covered this era from inside the paddock, join Glenn Freeman to answer questions ranging from Michael Schumacher staying with Ferrari beyond 2006 all the way through to Lewis Hamilton's move from McLaren to Mercedes for 2013. Along the way we stop off at some of the biggest stories of the era, including the 2007 McLaren spy scandal, Brawn GP, Felipe Massa's recovery from his 2009 accident, Mark Webber vs Sebastian Vettel at Red Bull, what Fernando Alonso could have done at Lotus in 2012-13 and much much more. Series 3 of Bring Back V10s launches on January 7. Get your questions in for our series finale where you can ask us anything about F1 from 1989-2005 using #BringBackV10s on Twitter!

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0:00.0	Bring Back V10s is, well, back.
0:11.0	And for this special episode, we've dropped two cylinders to look back on F1's V8 era from 2006 to 2013.
0:19.0	Over our first two series, we've received plenty of requests to talk about the era that
0:23.6	followed our beloved V-10s, so as a festive treat this December, we bowed to your wishes.
0:29.6	Joining me, Glenn Freeman, to take your questions on an era when the engines didn't sound
0:34.1	quite as good as before, but there was plenty of drama on and off track,
0:38.2	but two men who were in the thick of it covering F1 at the time, Mark Hughes and Ed Straw.
0:43.9	Now, Mark, I can't imagine you missed many races between 2006 and 2013.
0:50.0	Do you think this was an interesting and eventful period in F1's history?
0:54.0	Yeah, and I didn't miss any races.
0:56.0	Actually, this year is the first that I've missed around since 2000.
1:00.0	But yeah, I think the V8 era was a fascinating one.
1:03.0	It was particularly interesting, for me, the first year of it, despite the loss of 20% capacity in a couple of cylinders,
1:10.0	these cars were almost as fast straight away as the V10s around a lap.
1:14.6	They were much faster on corner entry and braking.
1:17.4	And we entered the era still with the tire war raging,
1:21.7	but about to come to an end.
1:23.1	And we saw the end of the Schumacher era
1:25.1	and what looked like the beginning of the Elonso won,
1:27.3	only for that to be supplanted by Hamilton and subsequently Vettel.
1:31.1	We saw the Ferrari McLaren duopoly that had prevailed for a while, overpowered, and a new
1:37.3	hierarchy established.
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