Bring Back V10s - Classic F1 stories

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 rum...

The 1995 Australian GP was a chaotic race that brought the curtain down on the first part of the Bring Back V10s era in many ways. It was F1's final visit to Adelaide, the last time we saw a V12 Ferrari, the final race before the distinctive high cockpit sides were introduced, and the last race that was started with green lights! Ben Anderson and Matt Beer join Glenn Freeman to discuss how Damon H...

Bring Back V10s makes its regular detour into the V8 era to revisit the 2010 Korean Grand Prix - a day when Red Bull's title hopes with both Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel seemed to disappear. Edd Straw and Karun Chandhok join Glenn Freeman to look back on a race where Webber crashed out and Vettel's engine blew, allowing Fernando Alonso to claim victory and the championship lead. Karun also rec...

The 2000 Australian Grand Prix marked the start of Ferrari's dominance of the early years of the 21st century, although it took an assist from an unreliable McLaren team for Michael Schumacher to score his first win in an F1 season-opener since 1995. Matt Beer and Mark Hughes join Glenn Freeman to revisit how Schumacher got off to the perfect start, Jenson Button's rollercoaster F1 debut after muc...

We're taking a trip back to the streets of Phoenix for the 1991 US GP, the last race that would be held in the States until 2000. Sam Smith and Gary Anderson join Glenn Freeman to reflect on a comfortable start to Ayrton Senna's final championship-winning year, and Gary shares plenty of stories about the build up to Jordan's first F1 race weekend with the stunning 191... GET IN TOUCH: Use the hash...

For episode one of series eight, Glenn Freeman, Edd Straw and Ben Anderson revisit Red Bull Racing's first season in F1, all the way from taking over Jaguar with a 31-year-old Christian Horner as team boss, to getting both cars in the points on debut, Red Bull buying Minardi later in the year, and the most important moment in Red Bull's F1 history: how it pulled off the signing of Adrian Newey at...

Bring Back V10s is back with a one-off charity special supporting Blood Cancer UK - and for one episode only, no era of F1 is off limits!  We were overwhelmed by how many of you made a donation and submitted a question for our panel to answer via our Just Giving page , helping us raise over £10,000 for such a worthy cause.  So join host Glenn Freeman and panellists Edd Straw, Mark Hughes and Matt...

For the final episode of the series we're once again answering your questions about the V10 era. Host Glenn Freeman is joined by Edd Straw, Gary Anderson and Matt Beer to tackle subjects including Rubens Barrichello’s shock front row start at Brazil 1996, Dome’s ‘lost’ F1 car, how Bruno Junquiera would have fared if he’d won his Williams shoot-out with Jenson Button, whether Senna would have succe...

Our latest Bring Back V10s Top 10 debate focuses on the best team-mate pairings of the era. Edd Straw, Ben Anderson and Matt Beer join host Glenn Freeman to argue over what makes a great team-mate partnership - with a surprising amount of love for Gerhard Berger! How did we do it? We took every constructors' championship winning set of team-mates from 1989-2005, added in some wildcards, then from...

The 2002 Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne proved a race of dramatically contrasting fortunes for the Schumacher brothers, with Ralf suffering a spectacular first lap retirement and Michael proving a year-old car was no barrier to success. Edd Straw and Ben Anderson join host Glenn Freeman to pick over the details of a classic race, which featured one of the most iconic first-lap crashes in F1, a...

Heinz-Harald Frentzen was signed to be Williams's next superstar, but after being brought in to replace world champion Damon Hill, he only took one victory and was firmly put in the shade by team-mate Jacques Villeneuve. Edd Straw and Matt Beer join host Glenn Freeman to revisit that single win, which came at the 1997 San Marino Grand Prix. As well as discussing Frentzen's failure at Williams at g...

Force India went from a team that hadn't scored a point to claiming a pole position and a podium finish in one incredible weekend at the 2009 Belgian Grand Prix. But should it have been a win? Edd Straw and Ben Anderson join host Glenn Freeman to look at Giancarlo Fisichella's incredible weekend, and how Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari denied a fairytale result. There's also talk of Jenson Button's mid-s...

The 2004 French Grand Prix was famously won by Michael Schumacher switching to a four-stop strategy to outfox Fernando Alonso and Renault on a day where Ferrari faced a bigger threat than usual in one of its most dominant seasons. Mark Hughes and Scott Mitchell join host Glenn Freeman to look back at how Ferrari pulled the unique strategy off, and why Renault could do nothing about it. They also l...

F1's first race at Malaysia's Sepang circuit was hugely memorable, not only for Michael Schumacher's return after breaking his leg earlier in the year and how he dominated the weekend before handing the win to Eddie Irvine, but also for the post-race controversy that resulted in both Ferraris being excluded - only to be reinstated six days later after winning an FIA appeal. Gary Anderson and Karun...

Jean Alesi announced himself as an F1 star in the making at the first race of 1990 in Phoenix, where he led the first half of the race, then cheekily stole the lead back from Ayrton Senna after the McLaren driver passed him mid-race. It set the scene for an eventful year for Alesi on and off track, as he performed underdog heroics with Tyrrell, and ended up signing contracts with both Williams and...

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...

The 1993 European Grand Prix at Donington is one of Ayrton Senna's most iconic victories, and of course one of the most famous opening laps by any driver in F1 history. Mark Hughes and Gary Anderson - who were both at Donington that weekend - join host Glenn Freeman to revisit Senna's majestical performance, as well as everything else that happened in that race and what else was going on in F1 at...

Mika Hakkinen's final F1 victory came in his penultimate race at the 2001 United States Grand Prix, before he headed off into a "sabbatical" that in his mind was always going to be retirement. Mark Hughes - who was covering the race at Indianapolis - and Edd Straw join host Glenn Freeman to revisit F1 arriving on US soil just weeks after the 9/11 terror attacks in New York. We also discuss the rum...

The new Formula 1 campaign may still be a while away, but international motor racing returns with a bang this weekend with the start of the 2023 Formula E championship. Season 9 brings with it many things: A new generation of car, new tracks, new driver line-ups - and a new host for The Race Formula E Podcast!  Hit like, follow or subscribe in your podcast player of choice to join The Race Formula...

Karun Chandhok and Edd Straw join Glenn Freeman to revisit the summer of 1996, when Williams decided to drop championship leader Damon Hill for 1997 in favour of Heinz-Harald Frentzen. We look at what was going on behind the scenes at Williams, and put to the test some of the theories Hill has expressed over the years for why the team that gave him his big break in F1 decided it didn't want to car...

We're finishing the series with something new: a top 10 debate! Our first topic is about the best cars of the V10 era. Host Glenn Freeman and guests Edd Straw, Matt Beer and Ben Anderson all ranked every drivers' championship-winning car in F1 from 1989-2005, and our four lists were combined to create an overall ranking, which leaves plenty of room for arguments to break out - usually over the qua...

For the penultimate episode of the series we're taking your questions about the V10 era. Host Glenn Freeman is joined by an expanded line-up, as Mark Hughes, Gary Anderson and Karun Chandhok all join the show to tackle subjects including Giancarlo Fisichella vs Fernando Alonso, Ralf Schumacher's true level, if Ford's F1 effort was worse than Toyota's, why Yamaha even bothered doing F1, the best en...

Rubens Barrichello claimed an emotional first F1 victory with an inspired decision to stay out on slick tyres as rain fell in the closing stages of the 2000 German Grand Prix. Edd Straw and Ben Anderson join host Glenn Freeman to look back at how Barrichello upset the odds to win from 18th on the grid, in a race famous for the track invader who was protesting his dismissal after 20 years of workin...

Jean Alesi claimed his first - and only - F1 win on an emotional day at the 1995 Canadian Grand Prix, driving a Ferrari with the number 27 made famous by Gilles Villeneuve, on the circuit named after the great Canadian. Sam Smith and self-confessed Alesi fanatic Jonathan Reynolds join host Glenn Freeman to revisit that June weekend in 1995, including Alesi's ongoing spat with Martin Brundle, McLar...

Mika Hakkinen made the first of two high-profile errors in Italy in 1999 at that year's San Marino Grand Prix at Imola, when he crashed out of a comfortable lead exiting the final corner early in the race. To make matters worse for McLaren, Michael Schumacher then went on to defeat the second McLaren of David Coulthard, who fumed about his treatment by backmarkers. Matt Beer and Ben Anderson join...