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

And I think as well, because there's the narrative at Benetton that Schumacher's overperforming the car, maybe not giving Berne credit at that point, but it's still like, at worst, second best car on the grid through those years.

And what he goes on to achieve at Ferrari shows his absolute quality

I do think he gets overlooked.

I understand why from a profile point of view, but not an achievement one.

I'm glad the Ferrari years are there to prove it.

When Simmons says that Bern was irreplaceable and kind of implies that Braun wasn't, I wonder if that is partly Simmons and Braun being from a more similar part of what a lineup requires.

And maybe there's a bit of Simmons thinking, well, Braun's gone, but I'm still here and I do some of, you know, I'm on that sort of

But yeah, if he had set up that scuba diving school, I'm sure that would have gone really well.

But the fact that Ferrari's calling Rory Burn up, even really recently for a bit of consultancy on the car, shows that he was well worth hooking back out of the beach hut.

I don't have a lot of faith in lots of things Flavia Britori has done, but I actually don't think you could have done anything that wouldn't have ended up with the same outcome here.

The Schumacher axis and the circumstances were so unique.

The way everything worked together there was going to be so hard to replace.

Apart from signing Berger, Benetton does not at any point really think...

here's an established person we'll just plug into our winning machine.

It's constantly trying to bet on the upside of someone coming through like a Dibba Schumacher.

Looking at Leighton going, he's worth a go as the next guy who could be so special.

He's absolutely bang on in 95.

It then needs to think really differently about how to manage him and it then needs to cut his losses maybe even after one season.

But it was

the right thing to do.

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