Glenn Freeman

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4,108 appearances 14 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 19 Sep

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The Race F1 Podcast · Bring Back V10s: The cult heroes who helped shape F1's V10 era · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

He just falls into it.

And it is that it's the story, which, as you say, is encapsulated basically within just over a decade of time in F1 of coming in and being that great hope and that hope actually never being realized.

And as we've talked about on the show many times previously, perhaps.

It wasn't that he never quite managed to realize his full potential.

It's perhaps that his potential was lower than we all realized at the time.

The single win is much more memorable for him to have won one race than it would be if he won three or four.

And I do think he was, even then, a throwback driver.

I think he's the sort of guy who would have kind of swashbuckled his way to six to eight Grand Prix wins in, say, the 70s or maybe in part of the 80s.

But people like Michael Schumacher moved the game on in terms of professionalism, in terms of having to join up all the dots, not just be a kind of flamboyant showman, skillful kind of driver.

So I think that's why...

Yeah.

The era before, I think that's a good point.

And the traction control thing, I think actually showed a limitation in that he didn't realize like say a Michael Schumacher did, that it didn't just mean mash the throttle and the computer will work it out for you.

Schumacher worked out there was a way to drive with it and actually tone it down a little bit.

So you do still get some wheel slip because that's the fastest way.

So yeah,

Yeah, Lacey couldn't grasp any of that.

I think he also scores points to me for before high cockpit sides came along, the massive head lean out the side of the car.

And also really, it was kind of the pioneer of the chrome crash helmet trend that happened around the turn of the century.

He was kind of the first guy to really commit to that.

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