Racing for Ferrari: Vettel, Prost + Mansell from the BTG Archive

F1: Beyond The Grid

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🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Lewis Hamilton is getting ready for his first season with Ferrari in 2025. He’s won seven World Championships and 105 races, but some of Formula 1’s most successful drivers have joined Ferrari in the past and missed out on the ultimate prize.

So what lessons can Lewis take from those who came before him? How difficult is it to win titles with the Scuderia? And why is driving for Ferrari so different to any other team in the sport?

Digging through the F1 Beyond The Grid archives, Tom Clarkson has found interviews with Sebastian Vettel, Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Jody Scheckter – all of whom provide fascinating insight into their time at Ferrari and help answer some of those key questions as Lewis embarks on an exciting new era in red.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to F1 Beyond the Grid with me Tom Clarkson.
0:10.7	The 2025 Formula One season is nearly upon us.
0:15.0	And what a year we have in store.
0:17.3	We'll celebrate the World Championships 75th anniversary.
0:20.8	We'll see Brad Pitt join the
0:22.3	grid as the sport hits the big screen, and all of the ingredients are there for an incredible season
0:28.6	of racing. Who will be at the front and how will the drivers who've moved teams perform?
0:34.1	There are so many questions and in the build-up to the new season, we're going to find
0:38.3	clues to what might happen in the F1B on the grid archive. First up, as Lewis Hamilton
0:44.4	prepares to race in red, how does it feel to make the switch to Ferrari? When you win for Ferrari,
0:51.3	when you lose for Ferrari, it's absolutely
0:54.3	incomparable to another country, another team. You never feel that anywhere.
1:01.3	I think I have a very strong emotional connection to Italy and to Ferrari as a
1:06.5	brand. I failed because my target was to win the world championship and I didn't.
1:11.3	Utopia, completion of one's experience of life in the most amazing team in Formula One, bar none.
1:21.2	That's Alan Prost, Sebastian Vettel and Nigel Mansell, who all moved to Marinello in search of greater glory. For them, the dream of
1:30.0	winning a championship with Ferrari never came true. So do their experiences hold any lessons
1:36.3	for Lewis, who's looking to add to his record 105 Grand Prix wins and become an eight-time
1:43.0	world champion? What does it take to win races with Ferrari and how hard is it to win a title?
1:50.0	And why is driving for the Scuderia such a unique experience compared to any other team?
1:56.0	Let's go back and get the answers.
1:58.0	You'll hear from Mansell, Vettel and a man who won the title in his first year with Ferrari,
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