Matt Beer

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1,273 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 23 Jul

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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

So, but I agree he can't, he shouldn't be in because he won the championship, but it's what makes it almost a case is how close he came to not winning the championship.

And if a couple of things have gone a little bit differently in 97, Schumacher-wise, let's say Schumacher has a couple more points from...

Did he lose a few in Melbourne from an extra pit stop or something?

Just a little Schumacher thing is different.

There's a bit more of a cushion in Jerez.

Schumacher doesn't have to drive into him.

Villeneuve loses that championship.

And then, yeah, absolutely a V10sman because then the entire story arc is this guy was so good.

He came so close.

He was such a cultural phenomenon in, like Ben says, weird ways, but he certainly was different.

And he never had that crowning moment.

He blew it all.

Then he's, oh, yeah, he's like a Lacey times 10.

But he didn't blow it all.

He actually, in the end, made it happen.

And he made it happen on, as much as he did sketchy things for some part of 97, his good bits were really good.

And when it came to it in Jerez, he showed he deserved that championship with a really, really good drive on the day when it mattered most.

So I think for me, in our criteria, that disqualifies him from being the archetypal V10sman because he got something done in the end.

I did not see that coming.

On my list.

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