Send us your thoughts on Spa 1995 - BBV10s Debrief
Added 2025-01-14 09:10:00 +0000 UTCFollowing the launch of our Bring Back V10s Debrief series where we looked back on Jenson Button's 2000 season with YOUR input, let's do it again!
Thanks to everyone who got involved with episode one. Now we can move onto the second show from Season 11, so send us your thoughts, comments and questions about everything we talked about in the 1995 Belgian GP episode, and BBV10s host Glenn Freeman will work through them in the coming days for another Debrief episode!
Comments
An observation on the post-race press conference. Great use of "bloody" by Michael Schumacher. Something he picked up from being around British teams most likely, Vettel was like that as well. If I can be cheeky and ask something not all to do with F1. I know you (Glenn) are also a snooker fan, are there drivers from any period who come across as snooker-y to you? Damon Hill has always come across as very snooker. Can just imagine him backing Jimmy White every time to beat Stephen Hendry in all those world finals! Maybe sat in the Crucible if the F1 schedule allowed during any of those years.
Joe Sweeney
2025-01-17 15:47:38 +0000 UTCI always think that this is one of Brundle's most underrated drives. I actually rewatched this to see his and Hill's battle and the move at La Source is so clumsy. It also does leave a frustration that Brundle never got the full season in the car (as half the time in the other races he was tripping over others and himself)
Joe Moore
2025-01-17 07:52:30 +0000 UTCI remember thinking Schumacher’s defensive driving crossed the line (Villeneuve in Spain 1981 was always my benchmark) and getting frustrated that Hill didn’t just shove the car in a gap (particularly after Adelaide the previous year)
Oscar Robledo
2025-01-16 06:21:54 +0000 UTCI do remember this race well, but not the part about Prost testing for Mclaren around the time. I've a vague memory of Ron saying that having a champion in his cars was important. So we had the idea of a 39 year old Alain Prost contemplating a 2nd comeback after another 2 years out, in a car not long vacated by a 40+ year old Nigel Mansell who had been in the States since 93. Were the team confused about drivers at this point, or were they just placing bets on different types of drivers to see what stuck? Or maybe this was partly because Bernie was always keen to keep the big names around especially in the mid-90s.
Steve D
2025-01-15 17:37:54 +0000 UTCAs the ligier and Benetton was essentially the same car in 1995. Could Schumacher have won the race driving for ligier instead?
callum smith
2025-01-15 16:49:58 +0000 UTCI’m not trying to cuddle hill and put Schumacher’s skills in the shade with this suggestion but here goes. Seeing such a scrap between two drivers in similar cars on wet and dry tyres seems unthinkable today. If they were on Pirelli’s and even if you cut out the overtaking zones and straights you would imagine hill would be 10-20mph faster through one of the fast corners in the middle sector and just blast past Were the Goodyear tyres specifically the compounds much closer together in terms of compound and performance then todays Pirelli tyres ?
Simracer Sam
2025-01-15 01:06:42 +0000 UTCI think I'm right in saying that Belgium 95 marked the first occasion since Australia 91 that Schumacher was outqualified by a team-mate. Which, if you think about it, is an astonishing achievement by Michael. I'm not even sure if any other drivers in F1 history have come close to that run (56 consecutive events?)
Stuart Coulter
2025-01-14 21:19:33 +0000 UTCI was at this race. It was my first foray to a Grand Prix that wasn’t in Northamptonshire/Buckinghamshire. It was a Page and Moy trip and the bus arrived relatively late to the circuit. We therefore struggled to find a vantage point and had to muscle our way past some Germans at Blanchimant. They were singularly unimpressed until I got my Schumacher flag out, at which point they offered me a beer. I was 14 at the time 😂 I think I missed out on a lot of the nuances of the race as a result as there were no screens at our viewing spot and we were surrounded by trees. Modern day racegoers are spoiled!! Suffice to say I was quite chuffed at the end though.
Keir
2025-01-14 18:19:08 +0000 UTCWhat do you think Michael & Damon were discussing at the end of the race? Best local restaurants in the area? I seem to remember Murray saying it showed what great mates they were but when interviewing Damon, he joked about Murray being wrong as usual
Liam Scully
2025-01-14 17:48:52 +0000 UTCTaki Inoue qualified 18th for this race, a mere two positions behind the legendary Michael Schumacher (probably legitimately... or something). He finished the race 12th only 1 lap down. Do you think this was Inoue's greatest ever F1 weekend?
Alex Morris
2025-01-14 14:45:24 +0000 UTCI got into F1 from 1998 and became a Schumacher/Ferrari fan because at the time they looked like underdogs to me (oh how little I knew!) but I love the episodes pre-'98 as the story lines are so good
Ed R Gaming
2025-01-14 13:35:47 +0000 UTCI was lucky enough to be at this race, spectating from the braking area at Les Combes where Herbert passed Alesi for the lead. Johnny drove superbly in the opening laps and I’m sure I remember reading somewhere that his tyres had been incorrectly pressured, which may have contributed to the spins later on
Jamie Willis
2025-01-14 13:22:51 +0000 UTCHello Glenn! Not sure if this is relevant question to this episode as a whole, but watching the race and highlights, I noticed that some pitcrew has proper fireproof overalls and some pit crews (Like Ferrari) was still wearing t-shirts and pants. My question is - was this a transition period on overals, and is it linked to initiative of Safety that was implemented after Senna's death?
EmziysLV
2025-01-14 12:58:25 +0000 UTCWould have Frentzen finished 3rd had the race been one lap longer as he was approaching Brundle faster than Hill did in the final few laps?
Disc Infiltrator
2025-01-14 11:11:26 +0000 UTCI think some of the track changes were done well (Silverstone, Hockenheim, Monza, Estoril, Jerez) while others were really poor (Barcelona, Montreal, Spa). There's no in-between
Disc Infiltrator
2025-01-14 11:05:09 +0000 UTCHaving read Damon’s book, at this point of the season; Do you feel that he wasted this opportunity to win by failing to get by MSC on the wets at the time due to his mental state? He should have blitzed by & made up the time before needing to swap back to the slicks. If it was the other ways round, MSC wouldn’t have hesitated
Stephen Camp
2025-01-14 10:54:06 +0000 UTCWas it ever established what caused Alesi's suspension failure?
Matthew McMahon
2025-01-14 10:26:26 +0000 UTCThis was one of those performances like Fangio's last victory at the Nurburgring. Absolute once a generational performance like Max in Brazil last year.
Xerxes Balsara
2025-01-14 10:17:53 +0000 UTCThere is a personal theme with a lot of this seasons episodes in that my first interaction with this race was through the video Murray’s Magic Moments. ‘Up at Les Combes and the championship rivals were at it again!’ I wonder what the Benetton strategy would have been had Hill got through straight away? Would they have immediately brought Michael in? Would that have cost him the race?
Chris Parrott
2025-01-14 09:52:10 +0000 UTCSecond comment regarding the rumours about Prost driving for McLaren. If Mansell had stayed throughout 1995, surely they would have had another driver dilemma then too given that they had Coulthard and Hakkinen signed for 1996. Or was Mansell's contract just for 1 year?
Mark Martin
2025-01-14 09:49:51 +0000 UTCOne guy who flew under the radar a little in this race was Mika Salo. He finished 8th in a lousy Tyrrell but ahead of Panis in the Ligier. Why was he never a contender for a Benetton drive? Surely he would have been cheaper than Berger & Alesi and had more potential than Berger given that he was coming towards the end of his career.
Mark Martin
2025-01-14 09:48:11 +0000 UTCHakkinen wasted a really good opportunity here for a big result by spinning out early on. An uncharacteristically sloppy mistake (Name's pronounced like "bullck uh groice" - thanks for the shoutout last time)
Bwlch y Groes
2025-01-14 09:41:44 +0000 UTCI don't know if this is worth a QnA episode But could we have a review of all the 94 chicanes? The thinking behind each one. We're they well thought out. Better alternatives. And eventually how the issue in that part of the track was dealt with long term
Gareth Anstee
2025-01-14 09:13:26 +0000 UTC
