F1 General | Joe Unplugged | 177 | Making Sense of F1 History: How Do We Define the Eras?

About this episode

Dick and Sabrina explore how to define different eras in F1 history with guest Joe Saward.

Listener Heath asks: how do you define different F1 eras, and what are the markers that separate one from another? It's a question that sounds straightforward until you realize there's no official answer — and that the FIA has never even defined what counts as a Formula 1 driver. In this episode, Dick and Sabrina explore F1 history and how we make sense of it with Joe Saward, a trained historian who has covered the sport since 1988 and has met drivers from nearly every era it has produced. Jo...

People in this episode

Hosts: Dick, Sabrina

Guest: Joe Saward

Topics covered

• F1 history
• eras of F1
• defining F1
• Formula 1 drivers
• sports history

Keywords

• F1
• Formula 1
• eras
• history
• Joe Saward
• FIA
• drivers

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Organizations: FIA

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