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F1 Beyond The Grid

Stefan Johansson on racing 80s monsters, almost winning for Ferrari and tangling with wildlife

F1 Beyond The Grid

karenellenbevan

News, Leisure, Sports News, Sports, Automotive

4.75.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

This week we welcome blonde-haired 80s Super Swede Stefan Johansson onto the show. Stefan was a 12-time podium finisher, and he would have been a race winner too were it not for team orders or Lady Luck intervening. A terrific raconteur, Stefan regales Tom with some incredible stories from his career, including fascinating insight into what made Alain Prost so good, his heartbreaking near miss at Imola ’85, his barely conceivable weekend to forget in Austria in 1987, and much, much more…

Transcript

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0:09.4

a lovely bonus. We could have spent it however we wanted, deposit, mortgage,

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but we used it for moving costs. You know how Steve's back is?

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0:27.8

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0:58.0

Handbike accident while competing in a road race in Italy.

1:01.8

Alex was my guest on last week's show and anyone who's listened to our conversation

1:06.6

will be in no doubt as to his courage and resilience.

1:10.0

And to hear what happened to him just two days after our show went out was sickening.

1:15.7

As we release this week's show, Alex remains in hospital in a serious condition.

1:21.0

His prognosis, uncertain. I have everything cross for you my friend,

1:25.3

I wish you a swift and full recovery and I'm sure all of you out there feel the same way.

1:31.6

As for this week's show, my guest is none other than Stefan Johansson,

1:35.6

F1's 80 spec super-sweed. I've long been a fan of his since first seeing him race

1:41.2

at the 1983 British Grand Prix at Silverstone. That race was his Grand Prix debut and I remember

1:47.3

loving his black helmet and beefy looking spirit Honda. He outqualified reigning world champion

1:52.6

KK Rosberg too and no one does that by accident. His career was to be one of highs and lows.

1:59.0

He scored 12 podiums and he deserved to win several races.

2:02.8

But Ferrari team orders or Lady Luck always intervened at the crucial moment.

2:08.0

But Stefan can still be hugely proud of what he achieved. He drove for two of the sports

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