Bring Back V10s World Cup: We decide the best race of the V10 era!
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What is the format of the Bring Back V10s World Cup tournament?
The Athletic. The Athletic. As always, I'm your host, Glenn Freeman, and to help us get through this gruelling tournament featuring 32 of the best F1 races from 1989 to 2005, we have Ed Straw, Ben Anderson and Matt Beer. Here's how it works. We came up with a list of 32 races, taking four suggestions each from us and from our producer, Johnny. We then had the remaining 12 slots filled out by suggestions from the race members club to give us eight groups of four, just like the World Cup had until this year's edition where they've added more teams and completely would have ruined our format. Yeah. Matt, Ben and Ed then had to score each race in the groups from four to one with the highest scoring races progressing into the last 16 knockout round.
We've done a full rundown of the group stage results in an extended version of this episode for our members. So if you'd like to hear how we got to where we are now, head to the members club to check that out. In each knockout tie, the three guys simply have to pick the race they want to go through. So we get a winner every time. At best, we'll get a 3-0 or a 2-1. No need for any World Cup penalty shootouts here. If the World Cup wasn't about international football, I could make an Arsenal penalty shootout joke there.
Which races are featured in the last 16 knockout round?
but to give the first two rounds a twist as host and channeling my inner v10 era ferrari i have one veto i can deploy in each of the last 16 and the quarterfinals if i strongly disagree with the choice being made i won't do it in the later rounds as my ego does have its limits and i'm not allowed to send the same race through twice so i can't just give one of my favorites a free ride and All the way to the semi-finals. So here are our last 16 ties based on the teams that progressed from the group stage and following a traditional World Cup wall chart that told me exactly which group winner should play which group runner-up. So we are doing this legit. That means we have Nürburgring 1995 versus Monaco 1996.
Nürburgring 99 versus Hockenheim 94. France 1990 versus Portugal 93. Donington 93 versus Australia 97. Japan 2005 versus Jerez 97. Oh, what a tie that is. Australia. Veto's coming. Yeah.
Yeah.
Australia 94 versus Spa 98.
How does the veto power influence race selections?
Spa 95 versus Spa 2000, local derby. Did you get those in the World Cup? Yeah, South American derbies and whatnot, yeah. And Japan 94 versus Phoenix 1990. So from here on, we are going freestyle with my World Cup wall chart. For those of you watching, you can see I've printed off a 2022 version that I will be filling in as we go along. Not even in colour? No, no. Black and white. Come on, it's the 90s. I'm filling it out by hand. So the first tie then. Nürburgring, 95. Schumacher hunts down Jean Alessi for the win.
What makes Nürburgring 1995 a memorable race?
Alessi should have won it, really. Versus Monaco, 96. Chaos, Olivier Panis is our victor. Who wants to cast their vote first?
This is... This one's really difficult because this is in football terms. This is... Nürburgring 95 is kind of a late winner from a superior team after, oh, could there be an upset? And Monaco 96 is just a chaos nonsense race with a brilliant popular upset winner. So it's a real clash of styles here. So I've not casted a vote yet, but I just wanted to set... Yeah, pick one.
Stop comparing it to football.
I wanted to set the scene, but... I default to favour, because I think these are both brilliant, exciting races. But Monaco 96, for me, just has a special place in my heart, because that win for Panos was so unexpected. And there was so much happening in that.
Why is Monaco 1996 considered a chaotic race?
Only three drivers crossing the line. That three-car pile-up down at Portier, I very much enjoyed as well. So, I think... I think, I feel sorry for Nurburgring, but I'm going with the chaos upset side of this particular tie.
I am going to score the equaliser for Nurburgring 95, because as much as I also enjoyed Monaco 96 up to a point, a very clear point, a very smoky point down the escape road, exiting the tunnel, Nurburgring 95 is just, it's also chaos, mixed conditions. And yeah, like a Lacey should have won,
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the format of the Bring Back V10s World Cup tournament?
0:02–2:04
2
Which races are featured in the last 16 knockout round?
2:04–3:25
3
How does the veto power influence race selections?
3:25–4:06
4
What makes Nürburgring 1995 a memorable race?
4:06–4:56
5
Why is Monaco 1996 considered a chaotic race?
4:56–6:04
6
What are the highlights of Japan 2005's thrilling conclusion?
6:04–6:38
7
How does the panel decide between Suzuka 94 and Nürburgring 99?
6:38–7:33
8
What ultimately determines the best race of the V10 era?
7:33–1:15:22
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