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Bring Back V10s makes a rare venture into the 2002 season to look back on that year's Malaysian Grand Prix. Glenn Freeman is joined by Matt Beer and Jon Noble to reflect on a result that proved to be a false dawn for the season ahead, plus the collision between Juan Pablo Montoya and Michael Schumacher that earned Montoya F1's first ever drive-through penalty. Also in the spotlight are Jenson Button's maiden podium near-miss, new BAR boss David Richards taking drastic action to sort the struggling team out, a look at what might be the lowest point in Jaguar's miserable F1 story, Takuma Sato's novel approach to trying to swap positions with Jordan team-mate Giancarlo Fisichella, and the latest antics from the Phoenix 'team' that was trying to get onto the F1 grid with year-old Prost cars, and even older engines. There's also a suggestion from Jacques Villeneuve that back in 2002 F1 needed to get rid of testing and expand the calendar to up to 25 races a year. Imagine that!

Bring Back V10s dives into the chaos of May and June 1994 as we look back on that year's Spanish Grand Prix, which came just a month after the tragedies of Imola. With the world still reeling from the loss of Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger, F1 found itself under fire following further heavy accidents for Pedro Lamy in testing and Karl Wendlinger in Monaco. Glenn Freeman, Edd Straw and Ben Anderson look at how F1's political landscape exploded during this period, with FIA president Max Mosley seeing an opportunity to force through change, which caused a backlash in some parts of the paddock. We explore how that spread into the Barcelona weekend, with several teams boycotting first practice, and drivers forcing a terrible chicane made of tyres to be installed on the track. The weekend also marked David Coulthard's F1 debut as talk of Nigel Mansell returning to Williams dominated the headlines, while Michael Schumacher put in one of his most famous drives to finish second while stuck in fifth gear. Ahead of Schumacher, Damon Hill claimed a much-needed first win of the season for Williams, which prompted a huge outpouring of emotion within the team after what had been a horrible few weeks for everyone who worked there.  Get bonus F1 podcasts, extra content and ad-free listening, sign-up to The Race Members' Club on Patreon today. For a limited time you can get 90% off your first month! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jaguar's terrible first F1 season in 2000 is the subject of episode two of season 13 of Bring Back V10s. Glenn Freeman is joined by two people who worked in the Jaguar F1 system that year: technical director Gary Anderson, and The Race's Andrew van de Burgt, who ran the Jaguar Racing website in 2000! We look back over the whole year in detail, from the rebrand of Stewart Grand Prix, to high pre-season expectations, problems in testing, and a season that was largely a nightmare on track while Ford created plenty of high-level disruption off-track. Gary explains what he saw going on behind the scenes and tells the story of how he knew his time was up at the end of the season, plus he gives technical insight on the problems both Jaguar and Cosworth were having for much of the year. Get bonus F1 podcasts, extra content and ad-free listening, sign-up to The Race Members' Club on Patreon today. For a limited time you can get 90% off your first month! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bring Back V10s returns! And we're kicking off Season 13 with something a bit different, as we revisit the major flashpoints in the short-lived Ayrton Senna/Michael Schumacher F1 rivalry. Glenn Freeman, Ben Anderson and Edd Straw dig into the times Senna and Schumacher fell out during their brief spell together on the F1 grid - and yes, that includes Senna's iconic public telling off that he gave Schumacher at the 1992 French Grand Prix while wearing a pastel jumper! We also explore how their relationship and rivalry appeared to be evolving heading into 1994, and how Schumacher handled the loss of Senna that year, both publicly and in private. Want bonus F1 podcasts, extra content and ad-free listening? Join The Race Members' Club on Patreon today and get 90% off your first month! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As preparation for Season 13 of Bring Back V10s accelerates, we thought we'd share a sample of a bit of bonus content we made for The Race Members' Club. After each episode of the regular series, host Glenn Freeman produces a Debrief for The Race Members' Club, where he answers questions relating to the episode. On this occasion, we asked the members for questions about Bring Back V10s itself, and Glenn sat down for over an hour to go through as many questions about the show as he could. If you enjoy this sample and want to listen to the full episode, as well as more bonus Bring Back V10s and F1 content, join The Race Members' Club on Patreon today and get 90% off your first month! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Following our recent three-part Indycar Split podcast series, we put together a special Q&A episode for The Race Members' Club, with special guest John Oreovicz returning to tackle some follow-up questions with Glenn Freeman. We're delighted to share an extended preview of that episode for you in this feed, but remember, if you want to hear the full thing you'll need to sign up to The Race Members' Club on Patreon! Get your 7-day free trial to The Race Members' Club on Patreon today and enjoy bonus F1 podcasts and ad-free listening. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our Indycar Split series concludes by looking at how the CART/IRL war finally came to an end after more than a decade of fighting. But before we get to that, we have to talk about one of the biggest fights that took place during the split: the battle over who really won the 2002 Indy 500. Glenn Freeman, Edd Straw and Indy Split book author John Oreovicz dig back in great detail over what happened between Penske IRL driver Helio Castroneves and Team Green CART driver Paul Tracy, who were battling for the lead on the penultimate lap of the race when the yellow flags came out for a crash. We also look into CART's decline and ultimate collapse, as its teams and engine manufacturers started switching full-time to the IRL. And finally we revisit the story of how the two sides finally came together, as well as asking if there really was a winner once the war was over and Indycar racing was reunited again in 2008.  Join The Race Members' Club on Patreon today and enjoy bonus F1 podcasts and ad-free listening. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We know from your feedback that you enjoy it when Bring Back V10s dips into the world of Indycar racing, so as a winter bonus we're delighted to bring you our special three-part series on the infamous story of how Indycar racing was torn apart in the mid-90s. Episode 2 deals with CART's US 500 nightmare as it attempted to go head-to-head with the first 'IRL' Indy 500 in 1996. Glenn Freeman, Edd Straw and John Oreovicz then look back on CART's strength in the late-1990s, and the IRL's struggles to become established. Then at the turn of the century, Chip Ganassi Racing became the first big hitter from CART to go back to Indianapolis, starting a gradual shift of more teams crossing the divide each May, which eventually led to the first big full-time defection to the IRL. We hope you enjoy this little sideways step into another area of motorsport, but if it’s not for you, fear not we’ll be back with more F1 coverage very soon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We know from your feedback that you enjoy it when Bring Back V10s dips into the world of Indycar racing, so as a winter bonus we're delighted to bring you our special three-part series on the infamous story of how Indycar racing was torn apart in the mid-90s, shortly after Nigel Mansell had helped make the North American series so popular that Bernie Ecclestone saw it as a threat to F1. In episode one, Glenn Freeman, Edd Straw and 'Indy Split' book author John Oreovicz head back to early-1994 and the moment Indianapolis Motor Speedway boss Tony George announced he would be forming his own competitor to the CART Indycar series. We look at what drove George to make his bombshell announcement, and how the world of Indy racing reacted and evolved in the two years before the Indy Racing League hit the track for its first race. There's also discussion around the silly move the CART teams made that helped the IRL get up and running, and how both sides of the war fired major shots at each other with their plans for the weekend of the 1996 Indianapolis 500. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We finish our look back at F1 in 1993 with a new post-season episode where we take your questions on the campaign we just covered! We discuss what would have happened if Nigel Mansell had stayed at Williams as reigning champion, how things would have gone at McLaren if Mika Hakkinen had been racing from the start, how the current crop of F1 drivers would have got on in the 1993 cars, which teams from that era we'd love to bring back, and if Damon Hill could have won the title had he not lost those victories at Silverstone and Hockenheim. Plus, we choose our favourite, and least favourite, liveries from the season!

To celebrate the end of our 1993 Revisited season, we've ranked the top 10 drivers from that year's F1 action! Join Glenn Freeman, Matt Beer, Ben Anderson and 1993 superfan Edd Straw to see how they ranked the drivers, and how difficult they found the bottom half of the order!

It's the 1993 season finale, where Ayrton Senna raced a McLaren for the last time and Alain Prost raced in F1 for the last time. We conclude our race by race reviews of the season by looking at Senna's standout performance, a memorable moment on the podium, flying Saubers and questioning if Prost was right to claim Williams was losing ground late in the year. We're not quite done with our 1993 specials though. In the new year we'll be having a top 10 drivers debate, and answering questions about the season in an exclusive Q&A!

The penultimate race of the 1993 season will forever be remembered for the altercation that happened after it had finished. So get ready to join the Bring Back V10s crew for a trip back to Suzuka, and steer clear of Ayrton Senna if you see him after the race! We also talk about Eddie Irvine's impactful F1 debut with Jordan, an out-of-character error from Michael Schumacher, and if someone else was also to blame for the moment of the race that made Senna so angry afterwards.

Welcome to a free episode we're releasing in full from The Race Members' Club's Bring Back V10s 1993 Revisited series. Throughout 2025 we've been doing race-by-race episodes on the 1993 F1 season, which was voted for by our members as the follow-up to the 1997 season we covered in 2024. We're currently running a Black Friday special offer where you can get 50% OFF your first month in The Race Members' Club on Patreon with us, so to celebrate we thought we'd release one of our members-only bonus shows in full! Get ready to hear tales of Alain Prost's title charge, a messy day for Ayrton Senna, Damon Hill's building momentum, home heroics from Ferrari at Monza, Michael Andretti bowing out of F1 with his best result, and one of the strangest FINISH LINE F1 accidents of all time! TO JOIN THE RACE MEMBERS' CLUB ON PATREON VISIT PATREON.COM/THERACE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Edd Straw joins Glenn Freeman for the latest members-only Bring Back V10s Extra Q&A, where we answer more questions we received at the end of Season 12. Get ready to hear tales of bizarre people who brought their money (or not!) into F1, how the 2002 Arrows became the 2006 Super Aguri (via Minardi), how McLaren's modern-day team structure compares to the much-maligned 'Matrix' system brought in during the 2000s, Tyrrell's Honda power in 1991 and the impact of Jacques Villeneuve's Melbourne crash in 2001. Plus, Edd answers a bizarre question about drivers born in 1963 which gave him an incredible list of names to pick from