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: Why Benetton's post-Schumacher era was so rough · 28 May 2026 podcast

But yes, basically also it comes back to that logic of thinking you've got top established drivers so they'll handle some development so you don't need to be building a car that can carry them.

It's all about how Ben Percives itself and the sort of team it now feels it is.

And it's about to find out that it's not done with those few quid.

Such particular elements of what Schumacher brought to the team as well that were hard to replace.

So, you know, we'll talk about the driving style element and the car being based on the driving style, but the racing style that Schumacher made possible at Benetton, he's the first of the generation that is moving fitness up a level, that is doing pit stop races, sprints between pit stops, the adaptability of going, right, we're going to outfox Williams with a heavy one-stop today, we're going to outfox them with a nimble three-stop next weekend, and jumping between those things and being...

So not going missing at any point in the race, not thinking I need to nurse my semi-automatic gearbox for a while or these tyres to go without stopping like a previous generation of drivers.

From the moment he's got into F1, well, not quite the moment because it's not till 94, but even in 93, we saw Benetton doing things with tyre strategy that were different and were making other people have to rethink things.

The whole team's operating in a different way because it can with Schumacher's relentless pace, adaptability, brain power while he's in the car.

There's an awful lot of things that...

that a future generation of drivers will probably have too.

By the time Alonso is doing some of those things 10 years later, he's not as absolutely unique as Schumacher seemed for doing some of those things at that point.

So there's an awful lot that is purely Schumacher.

Yeah, how exonerated did Johnny Herbert sound for quite a lot of 1996, with the exception that he could say, well, you guys are actually getting to test this car and getting new parts for it, and the team's talking to you, and you still can't make it work.

I think there was a perception as well in a lot of the coverage in 1995 that, yeah, by that time, the Schumacher distinctive style thing is very well known, very obvious and popular.

being used as an excuse for Johnny Herbert supporters to a degree as well.

But in 95, there's a perception that, oh, Lacey's got good car control.

This'll be fine.

He's leery.

It's not the same.

It's not the same thing.

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