About this episode

The episode reflects on the controversial events of the 2002 Malaysian Grand Prix, including F1's first drive-through penalty and team dynamics.

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! Get bonus F1 podcasts, extra content and ad-free listening, sign-up to The Race Members' Club on Patreon today . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Glenn Freeman

Guests: Matt Beer, Jon Noble

Topics covered

• F1 history
• 2002 season
• drive-through penalty
• team struggles
• podium near-miss
• controversial collisions

Keywords

• F1
• Malaysian Grand Prix
• drive-through penalty
• Juan Pablo Montoya
• Michael Schumacher
• Jenson Button
• David Richards
• Takuma Sato
• Jacques Villeneuve

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: BAR, Jaguar, Phoenix, Prost

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