Bring Back V10s - Classic F1 stories

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Bring Back V10s dusts off its VHS player to celebrate the incredible Murray’s Magic Moments video from the mid-1990s in this bonus episode for The Race Members’ Club, which we’re giving a little preview of in our main feed. 

Glenn Freeman, Matt Beer, Ben Anderson and Edd Straw look back over all of the main segments covered in this classic F1 clips show that celebra...

Bring Back V10s pays tribute to the late Eddie Jordan with a special episode looking back at the Jordan team's greatest moments in F1.

Host Glenn Freeman is joined by Ben Anderson and Matt Beer to debate which of Jordan's many highlights during its memorable time in F1 should be considered the brightest and best, charting the team's journey from a newcomer that had to go through pre-qualifying, to a brief title contender by the ...

It’s almost time for the second series of Bring Back V10s Revisited, where we go back through a classic season in detail in The Race Members’ Club.

For the first ‘Revisited’ season we picked 1997, but this time we’re putting you in control.

Glenn Freeman, Edd Straw, Matt Beer and Ben Anderson have each nominated a season they would love to cover race-by-race in 2025, but the final say is down to our members.

Listen to the case made by...

For the finale of Season 11 of Bring Back V10s we're debating the top 10 rivalries of F1's V10 era.

Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Michael Schumacher and Nigel Mansell all feature prominently as you'd expect, as do the main foes they encountered - and usually fell out with.

Host Glenn Freeman is joined by the usual 'top 10' crew of Ben Anderson, Edd Straw and Matt Beer to debate which rivalries stood out the most, and compare their diffe...

We’ve had an absolute deluge of questions from you for our traditional ‘Ask us Anything’ episode in Season 11, and as ever there were far too many great ones for us to fit them all in one episode. 

Glenn Freeman, Ben Anderson and Edd Straw have a great selection to work through, including hypothetical questions about how F1 would have looked if Michael Schumacher hadn’t got his F1 debut with Jordan in 1991, or if he’d never existed ...

For the final regular episode of Season 11 of Bring Back V10s we let our members on Patreon choose a race from 1996, and they voted for the chaotic Monaco Grand Prix that was won by Olivier Panis's Ligier.

Ahead of the third season of our sister podcast And Colossally That's History, Glenn Freeman and Edd Straw are joined by Colossally co-host Matt Bishop to look back on a bonkers afternoon in Monte Carlo, and to discuss everything ...

Bring Back V10s makes its regular detour into F1's V8 era to look back on Sebastian Vettel's sensational first grand prix victory in the 2008 Italian Grand Prix.

Glenn Freeman is joined by Jonathan Noble and Karun Chandhok (who was racing in GP2 that weekend at Monza) to reflect on how Vettel was able to take such a commanding victory for Red Bull's second team Toro Rosso, only three years on from it racing as Minardi!

We look back o...

Bring Back V10s is picking up where its first ever episodes left off, by revisiting what happened to Alain Prost after he was fired by Ferrari in 1991! 

We’ve reunited the trio from our opening two-parter - Glenn Freeman, Karun Chandhok and Edd Straw - to look at what Prost did in 1992, when he nearly ended up racing for, and buying into, the Ligier team.

We look at how close this shock move came to really happening, why it didn’t co...

The most memorable moments from the 2002 F1 season often involve Ferraris messing about on the run to the finish line. But unlike in Austria when the position swap was the result of strict orders from the pit wall, at Indianapolis Michael Schumacher returned the favour - or did he?

Host Glenn Freeman is joined by Mark Hughes and Bring Back V10s debutant Jonathan Noble, who were both at the 2002 US Grand Prix. They look back on the c...

Bring Back V10s ventures into F1’s fearsome 1980s turbo era for the first time, looking back on the incredible 1986 Australian Grand Prix that decided that year’s title.

Host Glenn Freeman is joined by Edd Straw and Andrew van de Burgt to reflect on how Alain Prost snatched his second championship from the dominant Williams cars, on the day Nigel Mansell suffered a heart-breaking and terrifying tyre failure when it looked like he wa...

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 ...

We're posting a bonus episode to your feed this week - the first episode of Bring Back V10s Debrief! Glenn Freeman sits down to go through your comments, questions and observations following our Season 11 opener on Jenson Button's 2000 season.

Thank you to everyone who got involved with the beginning of this new feature, which will be a Patreon-exclusive from now on.

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The rivalry between Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill defined the 1995 F1 season, and at Spa that year they had one of their most famous battles - a rare one that didn't end in a collision. 

Matt Beer and Ben Anderson join host Glenn Freeman to look back on how Schumacher recovered from 16th on the grid to win comfortably on a day where he outfoxed and outmuscled his title rival.

We also scrutinise if the reaction to Schumacher's rob...

Bring Back V10s returns for its 11th season, and we're kicking things off with an in-depth look back at Jenson Button's first F1 season with Williams in 2000, with the help of Mark Hughes and ex-Williams insider Jim Wright, alongside host Glenn Freeman.

There's lots of behind-the-scenes stories all the way from how Button got into the frame for the Williams drive, the shootout test against Bruno Junqueira that earned him the seat, a...

To get you in the mood for season 11 of Bring Back V10s, we're bringing you a bonus episode from our 1997 revisited series (which we made exclusively for The Race Members' Club) in which Glenn and the gang ranked the top 10 drivers from that classic F1 season.

Following the format of our usual top 10 episodes, Glenn Freeman is joined by Matt Beer, Ben Anderson and Edd Straw to debate (or argue!) about who should be included, and whi...

Attention fans of motor racing history: Matt Bishop and Richard Williams will be returning shortly with Season 2 of And Colossally That's History!

Join them as they take an unadulterated look at the earth-shattering events, epic sagas and huge characters that have shaped the sport's past.

Season 2 begins with a bang, with a critical reexamination of the remarkable Formula 1 'spygate' scandal of 2007, featuring a whole host of behind...

Our latest top 10 debate on Bring Back V10s is all about the biggest driver moves from F1's V10 era.

Glenn Freeman is joined - as always - by Edd Straw, Matt Beer and Ben Anderson, to argue over which moves were the most seismic from 1989-2005, with sub-debates including if drivers moving between teams should be more important than a shocking signing from outside F1, or a driver unexpectedly quitting. And should the success of a mov...

Bring Back V10s is revisiting the story of Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Jordan nearly pulling off one of F1's greatest championship upsets, but this time we're doing it in much more depth and with the man himself to help us tell the tale!

We covered the end of the '99 season from Jordan's perspective back in season one, and now we are looking back over the whole year with Frentzen joining Glenn Freeman and Edd Straw to give us the insi...