Matt Beer
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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
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Here is my case.
In terms of summing up part of an era, there's two elements to this, okay?
So...
pay drivers and people's view of them i think in the v10 era were a big thing there was so much kind of the people like nigel roebuck writing about the travesty of paid drivers and f1 there was this narrative that everyone who was good in formula 3000 was not getting in because paid drivers paid drivers paid drivers and denise is like the the big bogeyman pay driver of the era in many ways the fact he starts off a terrible team a properly v10z terrible team
in 40 with an iconically ugly car in 95, in which he is terrible, I think is a good start for the story.
But then after that, okay, in 96, I'm furious.
This pay driver is buying his way into a competitive leisure at the expense of Martin Brundle or the expense of Vincenzo Sospiri, other people who were actually good racing drivers being linked to that seat and Diniz is in that seat.
As that season goes on, initially, Diniz is where you think he would be relative to Olivier Panis, which is nowhere.
But as his career goes on, he's not nowhere relative to a bunch of genuinely good drivers.
He's not destroying reputations.
He's making you reassess whether people who you thought were really good were actually that good, whether Diniz was as bad as you thought he was.
The fact he out-qualified Damon Hill at Arrows at both Spa and Suzuka, I think, in 1997, is the ultimate indictment of the fact Damon Hill's 1997 season outside of Hungary was not particularly shiny, I would argue, and understandably in a way, he's in an Arrows, he just won a title.
Yeah, Diniz goes up against Mikasalo in two teams, Arrows and Sauber.
He goes up against Jean Alessi at Sauber as well.
Yes, the standout moments still come from Salo at Arrows and Alessi at Sauber.
But you don't get surprised to see Diné's out-qualifying Alessio Sarlo anymore.
It starts happening.
It becomes normal.
He becomes a respectable-ish midfield driver.
Or one where you look at him and go, no, he's still there because he's got a ton of cash.
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