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F1: Beyond The Grid

Andy Stevenson: 600 races, 1 team

F1: Beyond The Grid

karenellenbevan

Leisure, Sports, Technology, Automotive

4.85.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

This episode is brought to you by Salesforce, a Global Partner of Formula 1®

Aston Martin Sporting Director Andy Stevenson reached a huge milestone in Las Vegas, working at his 600th Grand Prix. It’s a sensational achievement made even more remarkable by the fact that all 600 races have been with the same team.

A driver winning with a broken leg, another going to jail halfway through the season, preparing a future seven-time World Champion for his debut… Andy has seen everything Formula 1 has to offer over the last 33 years in the paddock.

Sharing fascinating and surreal anecdotes with Tom Clarkson, he talks about Eddie Jordan not liking him when he first joined ‘Team Silverstone’, how they’ve evolved since their F1 debut in 1991, why he’s stayed there for his whole career, what it’s like working with Crohn’s disease, and much more.



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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by Salesforce, a global partner of Formula One.

0:09.2

600 Grand Prix.

0:11.9

That's the landmark Aston Martin Sporting Director, Andy Stevenson, reached in Las Vegas.

0:18.0

It's more than half the number of F1 races since the inception of the World

0:22.5

Championship 75 years ago. What's extra special about Andy's achievement is that all 600

0:30.3

have been with the same team. So you won't be surprised to hear that he has loads of extraordinary

0:36.6

stories from when F1 was very different.

0:40.8

He turned up to Madicor and he had to pass the fitness tests, which he did. And then he

0:45.4

come back to me in the garage. He said, don't tell anybody, but I've got a broken leg. And he said,

0:49.5

he said, yeah, yeah, he said, I've had to have a bunch of painkillers to pass the medical,

0:53.8

but I've got a broken leg.

0:55.2

So we had to sort of make him comfortable in the car, and the race he won, he had a broken leg.

1:00.9

As well as that incredible story, Andy's seen a driver go to jail halfway through the season,

1:06.5

and another one disappearing during qualifying before then taking pole position.

1:11.7

Here on F1B on the grid with me Tom Clarkson,

1:15.1

you're going to hear Andy's most astonishing experiences from the last 33 years in the paddock. Team Silverstone has known many different guises since starting out as Jordan Grand Prix back in 1991.

1:37.3

It morphed into Midland, then Spiker, then Force India, then Racing Point, and it's now Aston Martin. And he's been there throughout,

1:47.3

having started as a mechanic on Eddie Jordan's Formula 3,000 team prior to their graduation

1:52.7

to Formula 1. He talks about Eddie not liking him when he first joined, preparing Michael

1:58.4

Schumacher for his unexpected debut, why he's remained loyal

2:02.2

to the same team for so long, and why he thinks Aston Martin will become world champions.

2:09.2

And his memories of the last three decades and how the team and the sport has evolved during

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