The Dream Team Behind Mercedes: Meet The ‘Brackley Boys’ | Beyond The Grid | Official F1 Podcast

 

The Dream Team Behind Mercedes: Meet The ‘Brackley Boys’ | Beyond The Grid | Official F1 Podcast

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Join host Tom Clarkson as he shares the stories of the world championship winning Mercedes 'Brackley Boys' – Ron Meadows, Andrew Shovlin, Simon Cole and James Vowles and the collective highs and lows that bond them together like brothers throughout their joint time in Formula 1. Topics in this episode: 0:00 – Welcome to Beyond The Grid with ‘The Brackley Boys’
3:53 – The ‘identity crisis’ at Brackley before Mercedes
7:17 – The humble origins of Brackley’s F1 team
10:22 – Aiming for wins with British American Racing
14:18 – How data has transformed the team
18:15 – ‘Naughty boys’: BAR’s race ban
23:40 – ‘An incredible race’: victory with Jenson Button
25:58 – Honda pulling out
29:58 – Creating Brawn’s ‘monster’
34:05 – Championship bets at 2009 winter testing
36:00 – Champagne and redundancies
39:45 – Brawn on the brink: clinging on in 2009
48:12 – ‘Are we worthy?’: racing with Mercedes and Schumacher
53:06 – ‘My biggest regret: striving for Schumacher’s 92nd win
55:56 – A new era
1:00:28 – Dominating the 2014 season
1:01:43 – ‘We had two drivers that wanted to win at all costs’
1:05:12 – How Nico Rosberg evolved to beat Lewis Hamilton
1:07:09 – ‘You can’t find any weakness in Lewis’
1:09:26 – ‘Lewis, it’s James…’
1:14:21 – The bond that holds The Brackley Boys together
1:24:30 – Tom reads your stories of meeting our previous guest, Kamui Kobayashi For more F1® videos, visit http://www.Formula1.com Follow F1®:

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