F1: Beyond The Grid

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Beyond The Grid, presented by Bose, is a new podcast that delivers great stories, fresh insight and amazing anecdotes from the world of F1. Each week Tom Clarkson will bring fans in-depth, personal conversations with the biggest names in the sport, from current superstar drivers and leading team bosses to legendary figures from history.

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12.09.2020

The job of Ferrari team principal is arguably the most prestigious in Formula 1 – but it’s also the one that undoubtedly carries the most pressure. The man whose task it is to lead the Scuderia right now is Mattia ...

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12.09.2020 115: Mattia Binotto on the pride and pressure of leading Ferrari, rebuilding for the future and more The job of Ferrari team principal is arguably the most prestigious in Formula 1 – but it’s also the one that undoubtedly carries the most pressure. The man whose task it is to lead the Scuderia right now is Mattia ...
11.11.2020 111: Jochen Mass on a career tinged with tragedy, racing Lauda and Hunt, and mentoring Michael Schumacher Jochen Mass’ F1 career began with a bang and ended more than a decade later in a fiery crash. In the 1970s he shared podiums with the likes of Lauda, Hunt, Fittipaldi and Scheckter. His talent deserved more than a ...
11.04.2020 110: Eric Boullier on managing Raikkonen, dealing with Kubica’s accident and switching from Team Principal to Promoter Many of you will remember Eric Boullier as Team Principal at Renault and Lotus before he became the Racing Director of McLaren. He resigned from that role in 2018 before switching camps to Paul Ricard, where he is now managing ...
09.09.2020 102: Antonio Giovinazzi on learning from Raikkonen, his unusual route to F1, and how fast food shaped his career Think you know Antonio Giovinazzi? Think again. Most of you will know that he’s an Alfa Romeo driver. You might also know he’s the only Italian driver on the grid – the first since 2011. But what else do you ...
08.26.2020 100: Mercedes engine guru Andy Cowell on the art of creating the perfect F1 power unit This week’s guest is one of the grid’s most influential people. In fact, he’s arguably one of the most influential people in F1 ever. Since the dawn of the turbo-hybrid era in 2014, Mercedes engines have won 80% of all ...
07.01.2020 92: Mika Salo on giving up certain victory, racing through injury and more Winning in F1 is incredibly hard - giving up a certain victory is even harder. Many people will remember Mika Salo from his time as a super sub for Ferrari, when Michael Schumacher broke his leg in 1999. Racing alongside ...
06.24.2020 91: Stefan Johansson on racing 80s monsters, almost winning for Ferrari and tangling with wildlife This week we welcome blonde-haired 80s Super Swede Stefan Johansson onto the show. Stefan was a 12-time podium finisher, and he would have been a race winner too were it not for team orders or Lady Luck intervening. A terrific ...
06.03.2020 88: Heikki Kovalainen on making bets with Hamilton, his sole F1 win and the ups and downs of his GP career This week Tom welcomes one-time Grand Prix winner Heikki Kovalainen onto the show to discuss his rollercoaster Grand Prix career, which began with Renault in 2007 and took in 111 starts, with stops at McLaren, Caterham and Lotus. The amiable ...
05.20.2020 86: Stirling Moss: A life lived at full speed (with Mia Forbes Pirie) On the 12th April, the world of motorsport lost a giant with the news that iconic 16-time Grand Prix winner Sir Stirling Moss had passed away aged 90. In the final few years of his life, Moss stopped doing public ...
05.06.2020 84: Daniil Kvyat on podiums, pressure and phone calls from Helmut Marko Few drivers have experienced as many ups and downs as AlphaTauri’s Daniil Kvyat in his near century of Grand Prix starts, from the elation of three brilliant podium finishes to the dejection of demotion and losing his F1 seat. This ...
05.01.2020 83: BONUS: Introducing F1 Nation F1 may be on hiatus, but we know your fandom burns as strong as ever. So to help fill the void, we’ve launched F1 Nation – a new podcast that aims to unite like-minded fans around the world with a ...
04.29.2020 82: Julian Jakobi on looking after Senna and Prost, and the art of driver management You may not be familiar with this week’s guest, but all of you will be aware of his work in F1. As one of the most successful driver managers in the history of the sport, Julian Jakobi has worked with ...
03.11.2020 75: Lando Norris on the quirks of his lifestyle, Twitter trolls and his pre-F1 meeting with Helmut Marko Beyond The Grid is back, and to kick off the new season Tom Clarkson sits down with a driver who proved a rookie sensation last year, both on and off the track: McLaren’s Lando Norris. In a revealing conversation, the ...
11.20.2019 68: Special episode: Aldo Costa - The man with more world titles than anyone else This week’s guest is a man whose name may not be immediately familiar to everyone, but it probably should be. Why? Well quite simply this is a man who has won more world titles than anyone in history - 26 ...
11.13.2019 67: Mika Hakkinen: “I carry the emotions of winning the world title every day” He is regarded as one of the fastest drivers to ever grace an F1 racetrack, and arguably the rival Michael Schumacher feared the most. Not only was Mika Hakkinen’s commitment in a racing car absolute, particularly on a qualifying lap; ...
11.06.2019 66: Franz Tost: “I don’t think I’m hard on drivers – but I expect to see results” Putting aside Frank Williams, who is no longer in the active role at Williams he once was, Franz Tost is the second longest-serving team boss in the pit lane, behind only Red Bull counterpart Christian Horner. In his 14 years ...
09.25.2019 59: Cyril Abiteboul: “I live F1 physically. I don’t sleep for two nights after a race” He’s a man with one of the toughest jobs in F1: tasked with leading one of the sport’s grandee teams back to the top, under the weight of huge public expectation. But if anyone knows Renault, it’s Cyril Abiteboul. The ...
08.28.2019 55: Tony Brooks: “If you made a mistake in my day, you were in the lap of the gods…” He raced in an era of heroes; a time when cars had no seat belts, yet could still be raced at averages of 150mph. Many he raced against in the 1950s – the first decade of the world championship – ...
08.21.2019 54: SPECIAL EPISODE: Six of the best anecdotes from Season 2 so far! It’s the F1 summer break, and on this week’s episode Tom has trawled through the archives and picked out six of his favourite anecdotes from Season 2 so far. We won’t give anything away, but listen out for gems from ...
08.14.2019 53: SPECIAL EPISODE: Jo Ramirez on being in the middle of Senna and Prost at McLaren He may not be a household name, but Jo Ramirez is one of those people who has seen it all and worked with them all. He broke into F1 in the 1960s, working with emerging superstar Ricardo Rodriguez. His Mexican ...
06.05.2019 43: Gordon Murray: "As an F1 car designer I was always looking for an unfair advantage. I still am..." This week’s guest on Beyond The Grid is renowned as one of F1’s great innovators and technical brains – perhaps the best. In a 20-year Grand Prix racing career this blue-sky thinker was responsible for introducing such things as tyre ...
11.21.2018 22: Emerson Fittipaldi: When you left the pits you had to give yourself to the sport. You couldn't think what might happen... He's the granddaddy of Brazilian motorsport; a true trailblazer who, having become F1's youngest ever world champion in 1972, inspired a generation of exceptional talent in his homeland, including Nelson Piquet and Ayrton Senna. Emerson Fittipaldi saw it all in ...
10.17.2018 17: Charles Leclerc: “People say the pressure in Ferrari will be on another level - but mental strength is my biggest quality” It takes a special kind of driver to get the call to race for Ferrari with less than a season of Grand Prix racing under your belt - especially when the man you’re set to replace is a world champion. ...
09.19.2018 13: Toto Wolff: "I run a successful F1 team but that's nothing compared to what other people have achieved..." He's presided over one of the most successful F1 teams of all time - and had to manage one of the most heated rivalries in history. So what exactly makes Mercedes chief Toto Wolff tick? On this week's episode of ...
08.22.2018 9: Gerhard Berger: "I tried to get results, but I also tried to not miss the party..." With his larger than life personality, penchant for fun and an eye for a party, Gerhard Berger was one of the most popular characters in the F1 paddock in the Eighties and Nineties. But much more than that, he was ...
08.01.2018 6: Martin Brundle: “I was a racer – I had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the commentary box” As a racing driver he fought wheel-to-wheel with - and on his day beat - the very best of his era, including Michael Schumacher, Ayrton Senna and Mika Hakkinen. But for a whole generation of F1 fans, Martin Brundle is ...
06.29.2018 1: NEW F1 Podcast: Beyond The Grid Beyond The Grid, presented by Bose, is a new podcast that delivers great stories, fresh insight and amazing anecdotes from the world of F1\. Each week Tom Clarkson will bring fans in-depth, personal conversations with the biggest names in the ...