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BBV10s Debrief: Suzuka 1990
🕑 Added 2025-08-06 11:00:13 +0000 UTCTo no-one's surprise we received a huge number of responses to episode two of Season 12 of Bring Back V10s on the 1990 Japanese Grand Prix.
To no-one's surprise we received a huge number of responses to episode two of Season 12 of Bring Back V10s on the 1990 Japanese Grand Prix.
Glenn Freeman has worked his way through as many of your comments, observations and questions as there was time for, to follow-up on some of the biggest talking points from the episode, and a few passionate reactions we received from our audience!
There's even a handful of questions that were not about Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost...
Comments
Chris Parrott
A further thought, if u want to know what should have happened in the first turn you need only look two cars behind as Mansell and Burger more or less approach the turn identically to Senna and Prost but Mansell tucks in behind Burger.
Cardiff Giant
At the end of the day, Senna felt slighted (rightly so) after the events the year before. Then they refused to move the pole position after he got pole, then in the drivers briefing they basically said you are now ok to do what he got penalised for the year before. He was fed up and got to a line in the sand where he felt he had to make a statement. "I was fucked many times by the system. And today I said 'No way, it has to be my way". I don't in any way condone his actions, but you can understand what drove him to it. Schumacher was a far dirtier driver overall.
Chris
Couple of thoughts from the debrief (excellent stuff from the debrief and episode btw) - Murray’s use of the term ‘predictable’ in the heat of the moment. I’ve often thought if that hinted towards any pre-meditation, but I just think it was ‘predictable’ in the sense of there being a confrontation, with two title heavyweights going head to head at the same track, with the same likelihood of the title being decided. - Secondly a point relating to the whole Senna ‘dirty driver’ tag being justified or not. I think as hinted, he was certainly the one who would defend a corner longer, put a wheel in where others wouldn’t. Thinking back, I’d say most of the actual collisions he was involved in, Brazil 86, Belgium 87, Portugal 89, Adelaide 92… all involved Mansell. Who’s to blame for those collisions is another debate, but I think it certainly adds credence to Mansell’s boasts over the years, that he was the only driver Senna knew he couldn’t intimidate.
