Frank Dernie podcast

Nigel Mansell, Nelson Piquet, Williams in the 1980s, Frank Williams, Patrick Head, the state of modern F1, the problem with overtaking, Toyota, Jarno Trulli, Juan Pablo Montoya, Alain Prost... There is not much we don't cover in this podcast with Frank Dernie. Suffice to say that we are already organising part 2.
If you're a Nigel Mansell fan, make sure you're sitting down...

[@paulconnelly4050]

“I came to overtake him, he open his legs” 😂😂😂

[@Pfigueira78]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Nelson is the best!

[@Pfigueira78]

Amazing to listen and learn from Frank. Really appreciate this interview. Cheers from a huge Piquet’s brazilian fan. Nelson is huge!

[@michaelpashut4763]

Love Piquet

[@luisangeli9208]

Amazing words over Carlos Reutemann ... great history in fact

[@bimmergoon]

I love just about every podcast from you guys but by far this my favorite. I could listen to Frank for hours.

[@eb6084]

Mansell didn’t give his mechanics a Christmas bonus, and then Piquet went and did it for him Rufkm?!?

[@willandboy]

Great podcast. I've listened to this several times, and just found it on KZbin. Good work guys.

[@PAUE-1965]

Williams put 2 cars at Reutemann disposal for the Las Vegas race in 1981. Chasis #12 and #17. Reutemann made the pole on the first qualifying session with the chasis #12, the one he wanted to use for the race. However during the practice on the following day, he crashed with Piquet and once repaired, the car never behave in the same way, and hence he had to switch to the chasis #17. He claimed that among others problems, this car had gear box issues. During the race he stated that he used to miss between three to four gears by lap. After the race and back to Didcot, the gear box was reviewed, and Reutemann's assertions were confirmed.

[@SachiGortchi]

SUPER INTERESTING ! Sir Dernie is a fine, solid AAA pioneer, vanguard, trailblazer and storyteller of some most meaningful era/s of motor racing ! He should talk podcasts 24/7 😊

[@ghinzani1]

Lovely to see Ken 'Biggles' Sagar the first Williams truckie getting a mention. Truck magazine did an article on him at the 1981 Monza GP that was an all time classic tale.

[@LurcherVonPapsmear]

More Frank Dernie please Ed/MSN - I've watched this at least half a dozen times over the last three months!

[@paulconnelly4050]

Glad to know I’m not the only one.

[@MortezaAlavizadeh]

@@paulconnelly4050 Same here. It's just so much fun to watch.

[@Pfigueira78]

Me too... lol

[@richardtadman2424]

Fascinating podcast Frank. No wiser but better informed! Hope you are well

[@djh29971]

I doubt Williams would be in the mess they are currently in if Dernie (and Patrick) were still around. Hugely entertaining.

[@AdHocF1]

Amazing insight, thanks guys!

[@blackflagqwerty]

This is awesome. subbed and loved!

[@blijvendvertrek]

This is still excellent. Thank you, Motor Sport!

[@readventurekids]

FD is a legend.

[@mihailsnesterovics4626]

43:25 GOLD )))))))))))))))))))))))

[@ajax700]

Please enable automatic subtitles, for us that English is not our first language.

[@fernandosfjr]

"He (Piquet) was much quicker than Nigel". The truth has been spoken.

[@HammyMansell80]

Bullshit!

[@fernandosfjr]

@@HammyMansell80 Cry me a river

[@HammyMansell80]

@@fernandosfjr No thanks, not needed! ;)

[@michaelpashut1696]

FACT....

[@Pfigueira78]

And said by Frankie Dernie. Period.

[@metacosmos]

To understand Reutemann you should read Spanish, there are a lot of books about him published in Argentina, he is not a supersticious, he suffered a bad gear box all around Las Vegas race and a change of tires at mid season which made say him that it was not his season. Besides it, most Argentinians are like him, with a sort of "sadness" or melancholy which is usual in ARgentina. Such "sad gaucho" knew he was a world champion who couldn't be a world champion by a lot of circunstances, and from here comes his despair, which you the British you haven't never understood.

[@metacosmos]

@@user-io4sr7vg1v Reutemann had a wonderful life, he raced 10 years at f1, then after he became millionaire with his soya beans fields and later two times governor of Santa Fe and senator.

[@metacosmos]

@@user-io4sr7vg1v he believed very much in himself, this is the reason why he fought year after year for the f1 championship for 10 years, Chris Amon didn't. I insist that you the English speaking people should read some of the books about Reutemann written in Spanish, you didn't know the real man.

[@metacosmos]

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[@hidenorif9440]

1:11～　中嶋親子に言及しているのは日本人として嬉しいです、たとえ肯定的な評価でなくとも。

[@gregj7916]

still gobsmacked at the miniscule amount of views while carwow, mightycarmods and the like get zillions,,, the world is not fair...

[@stavroshadjiyiannis6283]

The majority of people are stupid. That's it.

[@nickrogers3555]

Legend

[@TheGucandido]

This is a guy that knows things, saw things, did things, and his opinion is clear about how Piquet was such a superior driver compared to Mansell.

[@HammyMansell80]

Mansell was better than Piquet, the stats speak for themselves.

[@fernandosfjr]

The stats!? You moron!

[@HammyMansell80]

Gustavo Candido why do you have to be that way and insult me. You're a moron like Piquet was, it appears. Learn some manners, no?

[@metacosmos]

they were very even, just remember the Brands hatch race of 1987 I think , all the race exchanging first position.

[@HammyMansell80]

metacosmos Silverstone the race my friend, and yes very evenly matched, but seeing Piquet was number 1, with the spare car setup for him, and other benefits, Mansell's achievements say even more about him. Yes he was difficult to get along with, but what a racer he was! 💪

[@66PHILB]

Carlos was an artist. Alan was a Racer. End of story.

[@robertwhitten265]

Nigel was not a great driver like Senna, Schumacher or Prost but he was faster than Piquet. The San Marino accident was in 87 and Nigel was faster in 86. I don't know what Dernie is talking about when he says Nelson was faster before the accident.

[@robertwhitten265]

@@willywonka-nw2pz Did you watch the races or just pulling Wiki stats. Mansell was always faster in 86. The only two races where Piquet was faster outright were Spa and Monza, two high speed tracks. Mansell won in Spa but Piquet was faster in the race. Monza Piquet was faster throughout but as it turned out Piquet was the only one with active suspension. Stop posting nonsense if you didn't watch the races in 86.

[@robertwhitten265]

@@willywonka-nw2pz That's the difference between people who actually followed F1 back than vs people who only see Wiki stats and few videos. There is a reason why when you see the greatest driver list, you see Senna on top even though the numbers don't show it. Senna was faster than Prost most of the time, Prost was faster than Lauda most of the time, Mansell was faster than Piquet most of the times, Hamilton was faster than Nico most of the times. And all these drivers lost the championships to the other driver in a same car. Doesn't matter what the numbers show, if you watched all the races, you'd know.

[@lrvracer3515]

@@robertwhitten265 - Let me weigh in on this. I can’t speak accurately about pre-2000 F1, but I’m a hard-core fan since 2000. Regarding the Hamilton / Rosberg battles at Mercedes, Rosberg was never faster than Hamilton, and the only reason that he won the championship was because (for some unknown reason) Hamilton’s car’s reliability reached a level of absurd inconsistency. That is clearly the reason that Rosberg immediately retired upon winning the championship - he knew that it wasn’t justly earned.

[@robertwhitten265]

@@lrvracer3515 I wouldn't say "Never". Rosberg did out qualify Lewis in 2014 by a good margin and Nico did win races on pure pace on some races in 4 years together. But, by and large, Lewis was the faster driver including 2016. I don't think Nico quit because he felt the championship was unjustified; I think he felt that he couldn't beat Lewis again so it was just an easy way out.

[@kekepiket9153]

@@robertwhitten265 If you saw races in 1986 , you would see that Piquet had engine failures in Spain and Spa while infront of Mansell. Also add in Mexico which should have been a win, but due to dodgy tyres became a disaster . Mansell had luck in Spa (spin) and Brands Hatch ( restart) . In 86 Monza Piquet did not have active suspension , That was a year later .

[@Looshbaby]

oh he don't like the Nige

[@TeifiValley123]

Nobody who worked with him did

[@darkarts59]

Adrian Newey did.

[@thelord7878]

2 seasons together Mansell won 11 races Piquet 7....Mansell out qualified Piquet 17 - 12....thems the facts !!!...how many cars FD designed has a TD win...wish they spoke about that 😂🤩😂....I'm sure Lotus & Ligier know

[@thelord7878]

@willywonka-nw2pz you seem obsessed with Piquet as your replies on this thread show... you are obviously not well... I wish you well in your treatment & recovery 🙏

[@dannymason6384]

Clearly hates nigel. But anybody who's anybody knows nigel was better than piquet!

[@HammyMansell80]

Dernie's a twat!! If he;s so great, why hasn't he been involved in F1 for years??

[@michaelastockbauer672]

Andrew Dalton he was involved in F1 for 35 years...thats longer than most of the engineers are...so your answear...a Little bit stupid, sorry. And Mansell was better than Piquet? I am not a fan of Mansell, also not of Piquet. But Piquet is a three times world Champion. He was far more sucessfull than Mansell. So the numbers confirm Dernies words...Mansell was strong physically, but he hadn't a lot of speed. Gerhard Berger says similar things about Mansell. So do guys of Ferrari, so i think, if one is not a Mansell Fanboy...

[@michaelpashut1696]

Danny you are clueless if you and your world of one think Mansell is better than Piquet

[@paulconnelly4050]

Nigel Mansell is the reason I started watching F1 but let’s be fair, Nigel is probably a more likeable guy and some of his performances are legendary but before Piquet had his accident and his eyesight went dodgy, he was better than Mansell. You don’t win three world championships by being worse than your team mate and I’m a big Nigel Mansell fan and didn’t particularly like Piquet because of what he said about Mansell and his wife.

[@dannymason6384]

I can't even be bothered to answer to you people. Just go and do your research on when piquet had his accident and who had won the most races up to that point.