EPISODE · May 15, 2026 · 22 MIN
15th May 2016: The Day That Broke the Favourites
from Chequered Past · host Martin Elliot
The fifteenth of May keeps appearing in Formula 1 history, and rarely kindly. This episode traces four events on that date across four decades: Keke Rosberg's audacious tyre gamble at the 1983 Monaco Grand Prix, Ayrton Senna's devastating retirement from a race he had dominated in 1988, Max Verstappen's record-breaking debut victory for Red Bull at the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix And the death of Elio de Angelis on 15 May 1986, thirty-nine days before his twenty-ninth birthday, in an accident that exposed everything wrong with how Formula 1 treated safety away from race weekends. Cover Image: By Lala_77 - Verstappen_Spain_2016, CC BY-SA 2.0, LinkSend us Fan MailMusic by #Mubert Music Rendering
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The fifteenth of May keeps appearing in Formula 1 history, and rarely kindly. This episode traces four events on that date across four decades: Keke Rosberg's audacious tyre gamble at the 1983 Monaco Grand Prix, Ayrton Senna's devastating retirement from a race he had dominated in 1988, Max Verstappen's record-breaking debut victory for Red Bull at the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix And the death of Elio de Angelis on 15 May 1986, thirty-nine days before his twenty-ninth b...
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