⭐️ Early access: Bring Back V10s S11 E3 - Misery for Mansell at Portugal '91
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Nigel Mansell's 1991 F1 championship charge effectively ended at the Portuguese Grand Prix that year, when a wheel departed from his Williams as he pulled away from his pitstop.
Host Glenn Freeman is joined by Edd Straw and Sam Smith to look back in detail at what went wrong in the pits for Williams at Estoril, on a weekend where Mansell's team-mate Riccardo Patrese took an 'easy' win, and Ayrton Senna banked valuable championship points while also taking a swipe at Mansell's aggressive driving at the start of the race.
We also look back on Jordan sacrificing its competitive aims for 1992 to make sure it stayed afloat, serious trouble for the Leyton House team, Ford's complaints about F1's engine war, how badly a Minardi-Porsche partnership would have gone, and how Max Mosley caught Jean-Marie Balestre out ahead of their battle for the presidency of FISA.
Comments
Can't post the picture in this comments thread for whatever reason but I've posted the pic I think Sam is referring to in the BBV10s chat section
Stuart Coulter
2025-01-12 12:49:11 +0000 UTCGreat episode as always. The longer the better! Hope that picture Sam mentioned can be found sometime, sounds very interesting.
Joe Sweeney
2025-01-10 17:13:05 +0000 UTCI would argue that F1 in 1991 WASN'T a horsepower race, and was embracing the technical challenge Ford was whining about. Semi-auto gearboxes, active ride, traction control, ABS, all were out already or on the way. Plus the aero designs that Tyrell, Leyton House and in '92 Ferrari (in a failing effort) all attempted. Even for engines, weight and center of gravity were becoming just as important as bhp. Now 2000-2005 on the other hand? That was a proper horsepower race.
Mark Riccetti Jr
2025-01-10 14:18:46 +0000 UTCOMG this takes me back to such great days, and pushing 1 1/2hrs, perfect!
Kieron
2025-01-10 09:40:53 +0000 UTCAnother fantastic episode. I'm kind of relieved that Minardi never got that podium because it would have removed the mystique around their backmarker persona slightly.
Mark Martin
2025-01-09 15:23:33 +0000 UTCEstoril was great. Even though they did loads of testing there, the races always seemed to throw up something interesting. That's 4 episodes on races there now, and I'm looking forward to the others in future series, because each of them has more storylines
Bwlch y Groes
2025-01-09 14:16:02 +0000 UTC
