Bring Back V10s: The cult heroes who helped shape F1's V10 era
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
The Athletic.
What is the 'Bring Back V10s' concept and why borrow the Barclaysman trend?
When looking back over F1 history, we regularly celebrate the great names, the champions who defined their era of the sport. But what about the stars who perhaps didn't shine as bright or for as long, but made an impact on us in different ways, ways that are often a little bit maybe intangible? For this episode, we're not doing a top 10 this or greatest ever that. We're celebrating what we think will be a different set of heroes from the V10 era. And joining me, Gwen Freeman, to do just that, we have Ed Straw, Ben Anderson and Matt Beer.
Ed, this slightly different episode format was your idea. So why don't you elaborate for people on what we're going to do here and perhaps explain the slightly odd, I think, two-year-old social media trend from a different sport that we've nicked this idea from.
Yeah, for those who object to this, I should note that although I suggested it, Glenn, you did approve it. So we're in this together.
Immediately. I didn't take any convincing.
Yeah, two-year-old social media trend. And that's about where I am with with the world of trends and that kind of thing so give me a bit of time and I'll get on board with 6-7 and all that fairly soon but anyway yeah the Barclaysman it's all about the Premier League so the idea it's a kind of nostalgia driven looking back at footballers who played in the Premier League when Barclays sponsored it which is kind of mid-2000s to mid-2015s because there's nothing that we'll like more than just sitting around talking about former sports people that we watched and enjoyed. But crucially... it's not about the best. It is about the kind of defining ones, the ones who stick in your memory for all sorts of reasons, the cult heroes.
The phrase that's often appended to it is the streets never forget. So maybe you had one great moment. Maybe you're playing a big part in the arc and the storyline, but you're not winning all the races necessarily. So it's very much about the kind of the Bring Back V10's cultural impact of players in that sense. The The kind of people who their name you don't think of and then they suddenly come up and you go, ah yes, Pierluigi Martini, just to throw a random word in there. And it sends you into a reverie. So that's what it's about. It's a slightly nebulous concept, but it's not your top 10 Bringback V10 Zero drivers. That's a very different list. It's not your worst drivers. So there's kind of quite a three-dimensional criteria, and it's quite a personal criteria as well.
So I would imagine that we'd all select slightly different people, and that's what will make it quite interesting and fun. And there's a serious side because... it's a way to look at how these drivers shaped the era and the moments they shaped as well and what they brought to it, even if their success doesn't necessarily match the way that we talk about them, because that's the really important thing. It's not necessarily about success. In fact, a lack of success is some ways a qualifying factor.
Certainly for you. So, yeah, as Ed's outlined there, we're basically nicking English football's Barclaysman social media trend that ran a little while back. So I guess we'll be calling them V10smen or bring back V10smen. I think that sounds quite, quite catchy. But Matt, as we talked about in the World Cup episode that we did a couple of episodes back, You're not a huge football fan. I think your following of football is primarily keeping an eye on the teams that your colleagues support. So you can see if they're going to be in a good or a bad mood on a Monday morning. But I know that you've had this concept explained to you by one of our in-house serious football fans, Jack Bennion. So how good a job did he do?
I think we'll find out over the rest of the episodes, won't we? I mean, Ed started out by putting a link into an article about this concept, which I read. And I was none the wiser apart from... More confused. Yeah, I went, I recognise the name Morton Gamps Pedersen, but I don't know why. Yes, brilliant.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–0:11
2
What is the 'Bring Back V10s' concept and why borrow the Barclaysman trend?
0:11–5:02
3
How do the hosts define a 'V10sman' or cult hero from the V10 era?
5:02–29:21
4
How will the episode format work and what are the rules for picks?
29:21–33:34
5
Why does Jarno Trulli qualify as a nostalgia-driven V10 cult hero?
33:34–57:45
6
What makes Pierluigi Martini a beloved one‑club Minardi cult figure?
57:45–1:07:37
Speakers
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