Dick Bennetts: Discovering Senna, Häkkinen's hand signals and Mansell's Mondeo

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  • Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
  • For over 50 years, Dick Bennetts has been central to some of racing's greatest stories.
    From giving Ayrton Senna his famous Formula 3 break, to communicating engineering feedback via hand signals with young prodigy Mika Häkkinen, and gaining respect for Nigel Mansell through his spectacular touring car cameos, Bennetts has lived and breathed motor sport through some of its most thrilling moments.
    In the final installment of Engineering the Greats series 2, in association with Scalextric, Bennetts gives true insight into the link between driver and engineer.
    Now a stalwart of the BTCC, the New Zealander also talks about what makes the series great, analyses the respective styles of his superstar drivers Colin Turkington and Jake Hill as well as explaining what he would do to make the championship even better.
    Bennetts also expands on how his West Surrey Racing team could have dominated with Tom Kristensen, and explains why he turned down working for Ron Dennis at McLaren.
    In another fascinating episode of Engineering the Greats, Bennetts' memories of a brilliant life in racing are not to be missed.

КОМЕНТАРІ • 5

  • @kekepiket9153
    @kekepiket9153 Рік тому +2

    Please consider this a comment on what could be better in these podcasts. Bennet worked with some of the best drivers and than you dont ask him details.
    Interviewer just seems poorly prepared for these podcasts.

  • @Joescuderia
    @Joescuderia Рік тому +1

    16:05 it takes you to what matters , the previous 16 minutes are just garbage .

  • @deweberis2709
    @deweberis2709 Рік тому +1

    After WSR moved from F3 to BTCC the Brazilian racing heritage in F1 started to decline. 😰
    Coincidence 🤔

  • @chunterer
    @chunterer Рік тому

    Would have liked to hear Dick's views on his short time with Bertrand Fabi in early 1986. A great talent was lost.

  • @kekepiket9153
    @kekepiket9153 Рік тому

    Interesting bit about Mansell. Mansell was capable of good feedback and technical direction of the team, however he also had moments where he tried to engineer the car and it went poorly.