£3000 in 1962 is equivalent to £80,000 today. So, about the same as an F1 steering wheel today.

Excelent video. This was the first F1 Ferrari for me as 1996 was the first year I started watching F1, so good memories even if Damon Hill was my favourite driver at the time.

Having a lot of time for testing is one thing. But building a faster car with the information is another story.

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I salute you too Aidan! Glad you're still making these.

It was unreliable.

While replying to someone else here, a hilarious thought occurred to me that just HAS to be shared more widely ... A horse could have completed that lap more quickly. So the Life F1 team had the distinction of fielding an F1 car that was SLOWER THAN A HORSE. At this point, I'll admit that after typing that, I spent an inordinate amount of time laughing so hard at this thought, that I was in imminent danger of a "coolant leak" of my own :D Indeed, based on that lap time, this car would have been beaten by a horse, several antelope species and an emu. I leave it to the more inventive, to set up that race in their F1 sims.

From an autosport family background, GH was a childhood Hero of mine. I've come here from another thread on this subject where I have posted this same information: The weather was quite foggy that night; diversion to Luton or any other civilian airport was not a viable option in those conditions as the aircraft wasn't ILS equipped and a Surveillance Radar Approach with a 2nm termination range (circa 650ft Height Above Touchdown [HAT]) wouldn't have got him in..... and his instrument rating was no longer valid I understand. However, he could have declared a Pan or Mayday and requested a diversion to relatively nearby RAF Northolt where we had full instrument approach airfield lighting and a (3-D) Precision Approach Radar with a 230ft minima (HAT) that I could have talked him down with (notwithstanding his official lack of instrument rating); yes, I was duty Talkdown Controller at NHT that foggy night and I'm sure we could have got him in safely, if only he'd asked.

Like always amazing and I love your content but Ferrari won in 94 just 1time (Berger in Germany) and in 95 1time (Alesi in Canada). Sorry to be over correct but Yeah... Still amazing stuff 👏👏

It was more than just a new challenge, it was MONEY as well that lured Michael to Ferrari. Debatable as to which was the larger factor, only the Michael knows.

"That's what happens when you stop cheating" Oh,the sheer HYPOCRISY of Max and anyone at RBRFIA accusing anyone of that...

Another memory of that year was Schuey going down the straights with his head leaned over to improve airflow into the a box for more power/speed.

This is what F1 should be about. Experiment and crazy solutions.

First V10 season? Didn’t he have a Renault V10 in the back of his Benetton in 1995? Or did I miss something?

Yo Aidan, could you make a video about the Safari-spec rally car in WRC? Because earlier this year in March (Kenya's wettest month) FIA decided to bring it back.

When I saw the Modena with the angled side pods I thought of the Brabham BT-44 which also had the angled sides. It would race from 1974 - 1976. I miss those days when cars were unique.

We need a Roger Penske video, high lighting all his exploits. Indy, the Acid dipped Camaro, the Homologation Special Javelin, The world's tallest fuel rig, the sunk works Ilmor...

at the french gp williams and brabham changed tyres from michelen to goodyear. michelen won all but 2 races

I love the F310 with every fiber of my being.

You don't have to let your nerves get pinched over "British bias". It's there and ramped up when Hamilton started, in which Autosport was a huge contributor. Address it instead of getting upset.

I thought that was Lemmy from Motorhead 😂

I now wonder what might have happened, if someone had thought of miniaturising a Deltic loco engine and using that in a 1960s F1 car. 18 cylinders? Even more hilariously, that would have opened the possibility of a diesel powered F1 car, which is probably about as acid trip an idea as the H16 was. Just out of curiosity, has anyone thought of running a rotary engine in F1, Mazda 787 style? Only that could stir things up, especially given how rotaries burn oil and blow seals if you push them too hard. Then there's radial engines ... a miniature version of the monster used in the B36 intercontinental nuclear bomber sounds like a good idea for a "Wacky Races" version of F1. Look around the Internet, and there's a whole zoo of weird engine designs that are waiting for someone to try. Quite literally, the sky's the limit here. That's a video topic that's begging to be done just for comedy reasons alone. :)

Two item to bear in mind ... first, I was waiting for the words "polar moment of inertia" to appear, because that was one of the design features. Mount the heavy mechanical parts - engine and gearbox - as close together in the centre of the chassis as you can, and the car is able to corner as if it's on rails at faintly ridiculous speeds. Which, with the short wheelbase, made the car able to blast around rally circuits at what must have been, for the 1970s, utterly frightening speeds. The second feature of the car was massively adjustable suspension. The car could be tweaked to suit individual rally stages at will. But there's a downside to this. The car is *very* sensitive to suspension setting changes, and while this is an asset in the hands of a professional rally team, with suspension tuning experts who know what they're doing, it's a *gigantic* liability without that expertise to keep it properly balanced. Which is one of the reasons the Stratos can become a widowmaker. Again, it's a car you acquire to teach yourself *restraint* until you've learned its quirks (not to mention the bizarre driving posture). Drive one that's set up properly, and build up your skill incrementally, and you learn why it was such a weapon. But do NOT let amateurs alter the suspension, because that's a sure fire way to enter pine box territory. In effect, this is a road going Lockheed Starfighter - brilliant performer with respect to its design mission, thrilling like nothing else while in its proper performance envelope, but lethally terrifying if you enter the *wrong* parts of the envelope. The dividing line between the two can be narrow, and leaving suspension tuning to experts is necessary to keep you out of the "widowmaker" parts of the envelope. But even if you do keep amateurs away from the suspension, unless you're already at Lauda or Senna levels of driving skill, you'll need a decade to learn how to drive it properly. Spend that decade doing just that, though, and you'll acquire some *extremely* valuable skills that will serve you well elsewhere. You'll also earn a LOT of respect from people in the know, and distance yourself from the idiots accordingly. Remember, this car is a weapon in far more of a literal sense than usual, and like all genuine weapons, requires skilled operation. But if you have the skill, it's one *hardcore* thrill.

@aidanmillward an idea for a future video perhaps doing a study on Alesi and Berger being together through 93 to 97 and how many races they should have won but didn't, especially Alesi!

Schumacher's steps to dominance #1 Get into car #2 Drive car on track #3 Ram opponenta off the road #4 Claim its all their fault/"British Bias"/or just ignore the irrefutable evidence etc etc.

Yeah, it’s really hard to say, especially as Colopinto has become Crashopinto since this vid went out. And as you say Red Bull don’t know where they’re going to be depending on media speculation and their own internal politics.

44 to scud!!!!!! Keep going sir! Good vid😊

It really wasn't until the 1990s that the safety technology finally caught up with the speeds. Deaths even in serious accidents are much rarer now.

Hot take: This car doesn't look nearly as bad as everyone says it does.

An antidote to the Vegas tawdry cheese fest.

I always felt the 310B was the beginning of it all for Schumi and Ferarri, the car just kept getting better each year and closer and closer to the dominance they enjoyed.

Those constant "fades to a blue background with a Lavazza car in it" get pretty boring and repetitive after a while. Clearly a space filler.

Irvine called it a heap of junk

That facelifted 310 looks like a snapping turtle. Absolute munter.

I like the way u think. Thanx for ur work.

Aidan Mongward

Actually, it was his manager Willi Weber who engineered the move to Ferrari. He saw great potential in his client to uplift the struggling team.

Great account of events, thanks!

Rumour has it the '95 Peugeot engine had a killswitch on it, which if it sensed the engine was about to blow up, would simply shut it down (sparing Peugeot's blushes). This came back to bite them in Hungary, when Barrichello was running 3rd on the final lap and the killswitch engaged on a dying engine. Had he been able to force the last gasp out of the engine he may have retained his position - Dropped to 7th and no points.

According to John Barnhard Schumacher liked a lot the 412t2 he tested with the V12 because of the engine breaking and he said to Barnhard that he would have won the championship more easily with the Ferrari than the Benetton (beyond the grid with John Barnhard). The F310 was so unreliable that they had to salvage parts from the 412T2 to repair them. According to Irvine this car was pure trash and all performance came from Schumacher

I think a video on each of Michael’s Ferraris would be amazing

Jeff Gordon - He brought NASCAR to it's mainstream popularity, in a time where people thought NASCAR of being a backwater sport, Jeff brought the sport to the forefront.

For those taking a critical view of Autosport Magazine, it simply was the F1 bible back then in the pre-internet days. Everyone read it, even the teams. You wouldn't get to see shots of the new cars anywhere else, nor their lap times. It may have gone down a strange route in recent years, but it shouldn't be forgotten just how important it was. The 310 wasn't bad because it was slow, it was bad because it was unreliable. There was a massive culture shift going on at Ferrari when Michael joined, and it took them several seasons to change from being about power, passion and politics to the ruthless efficiency that we saw from 2000 onwards.

I missed references to the V-shaped chasis...

I find the high nose Ferrari cool, but is just me and my late 90's bulky cars. Also interesting to notice that in 1997 you could either see Villeneuve or Schumacher on the podium, but not both at the same time

1991-1995, 2 wins (1994 German Grand Prix Gerhard Berger, 1995 Canadian Grand Prix Jean Alesi)

I don’t hate how it looks, but I don’t adore it either. It’s whatever to me really.

Please make a series talking about ferraris pre title years (1997-1999)

Back when cars looked different to each other.

total junk was that the year the half shaft fell out of the ferrari in the pit lane.