Bring Back V10s: We answer your questions on classic liveries, V10 era video games, and the best 'worst' team
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Another season of Bring Back V10s is coming to an end. And for us, that means handing the power over to our audience to ask us questions about anything and everything to do with F1's wonderful V10 era. So get ready for questions about Gerhard Berger in a Williams. Classic liveries teams should bring back. Which version of Silverstone was the best? Alex Zanardi at BMW Williams Kimi Raikkonen's 2003 title charge remastering V10 era computer games and what could have been a very different final chapter to the Senna-Prost rivalry in the mid 90s and to help me Glenn Freeman work through those questions and many many more are Matt Beer and Ed Straw Matt you've seen the full list of questions that we're going to try and get through in a respectable episode time here which one stands out to you?
There's a liveries one, a hypothetical liveries one, which I'm normally kind of not too fussed about. But I like the fact that the member sending it in has gone into such detail with what they do. And yeah, I really enjoyed that.
Yeah, that question may take a while. I've come out of my head of a way we can kind of rapid fire that. But you're right. People send in questions and they've done a lot of research already themselves, which is quite fun because it means we can come up with our own answer, but also challenge what they've put. Is that the question that ends with now tell me why I'm wrong?
Yes. Is that a different question? Yeah. I quite like that as well. Spoiler, I'm going to say, no, you're quite largely right on a lot of these.
Oh, yeah, that is a big spoiler. We've got a while before we get to that one. Ed, what stands out for you? I've got an idea in my head of which one it's going to be. Let's see if I'm right.
There is one, I think it's at the end.
Yes, that was the one.
That's very much in my wheelhouse. In fact, it pretty much is my wheelhouse because it's very bat-markery. So I'm looking forward to that one. I've got some interesting thoughts to share.
Yeah, that might be an episode all on its own. That can be Ed Shed's breakout at the end of the show. Well, let's get started because there are so many questions here, probably too many for us to get through. But we'll do our best and we'll basically keep talking until producer Johnny tells us to stop. Let's start with a question from Grant Toto, who says, say that Nigel Mansell's retirement after leaving Ferrari had stuck. How do you think he would have been perceived without a world championship to his name? Similarly, what was the perception of Mansell in that period before he rejoined Williams? That was for 1991. Was there a perception that he may never get that title and was perhaps just the best number two driver?
Before Matt is forced to talk about Nigel Mansell. So, Ed, what do you think?
I don't think he was ever regarded as a number two driver, or at least not once he'd started winning with Williams. I guess people would have regarded him as that before 1985. But it's really interesting because my first thought is it doesn't really change how he's perceived because he still had those amazing years, the near misses. Well, two of the three near misses, if you want to put it that way, drivers championship-wise. So that's all still there because in the Mansell story, the 92 World Championship is almost not the point anymore. Actually, it's the near misses. And then the 92 championship is kind of the – it's almost the dull bit of the story in a weird kind of way. And it just acts as a contrast to the heroism and the disappointments and that kind of thing.
But I then did think that finishing on the Ferrari years would actually take a little bit of wind out of those sails. I think it would have been, oh, he was found out by Prost, really struggled, et cetera, because those Ferrari years, they started so wonderfully and then – Just got away from him in 1990, didn't it? For all sorts of reasons that we talked about before. So I still think his reputation would have been as a driver who should have won the World Championship and a storming driver.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–9:31
2
How does Nigel Mansell’s reputation change if he retired before his 1992 title?
9:31–33:00
3
What would have happened if Alex Zanardi stayed at Williams for a second season in 2000?
33:00–41:42
4
When in the V10 era would a cost cap have made the biggest impact?
41:42–55:22
5
Would keeping driver aids from 1993 have changed which teams dominated the mid‑90s?
55:22–1:22:17
Speakers
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