Safe to say: I love this hoodie. Superdry sponsor plz.

The problem with Adelaide is the normal street drains have the 4 tonne concrete blocks that the safety fence is built out of sitting in them and they only have two forklift tine holes in the bottom of them to allow any rain to flow past hence the rain had no where to go once it hit the road surface. I was a volunteer marshal at that GP.

Apparently, around 45 mins after the race was called off for good, the sun came out and it turned into a beautiful day

At least it didn't take place under safety car in its entirety. **cough**Belgium2021**cough** In all fairness, when even Senna, one of the great rainmasters, was frantically waving his arms to have the race stopped, you know it's a LOT of rain!

Fun fact, in 89 the fastest lap was set by Satoru Nakajima in a lotus judd

The Kurt Angle reference... I love it

Mansell and his blowout was in 1986. He was going to come in for new tyres but the manufacturers said that his tyres would last the rest of the race. They didn't. Piquet came in for new tyres soon afterwards but Prost still won the World Championship, even though he didn't win in Adelaide.

Adelaide gave Gianni Morbidelli two of his best days in F1 ever . 6th place in 1991 and a podium (3rd place) in a dry carnage fest in 1995.

First time I ever got the Stefan Bell-on joke after watching a solid 100 of your videos. Love it.

9:48 Loved the Kurt Angle Reference. 😉

I remember watching this race on TV. It was essentially a black silhouette of the front car in front of a gray wall of water and occasionally seeing a car skidding off after crashing into something as the commentators (Varsha and Hobbs, I think) tried to figure out who was who.

As a kid growing up (debatable) in the 90's i liked Mansell because he was British like me. Everything I have heard since tells me he's got Pastrana levels of pain tolerance but also a good head on his shoulders and was genuinely talented and now has some "cracking" stories to boot.

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The Canadian GP, back in 2011, the water could only drain into two large underground cisterns. Tanker trucks had to come to drain the cisterns to try to keep up (and couldn't). Despite being in the middle of a river, the water couldn't just be dumped, it had to go through sewage treatment before release. The track has changed and I don't believe it is reliant on the cisterns anymore.

I was there in a marquee box and it was the wettest downpour I can remember. Luckily I was under cover. We were passing drinks to the fans in front of us who were getting drenched. There was always a festival vibe amongst the fans, rain or shine. So much drama on track that year

Thanks for the story, and I'm actually impressed that il Leone managed an entire F1 championship, making a joke out of his teammate, with a broken foot! As for what Prost said about the Ferrari, saying he compared the 643 to a lorry is bit of a stretch. As a Frenchman myself, the original sentence I've found does read a lot more nuanced than that. It can be heard that way, but it's a stretch nonetheless.

Aidan, another great video. Thanks. Interesting that you mentioned at 2:00 'Brundle and Blundell, that wouldn't get confusing at all'. During their flight from Japan to Australia for this very race, Mark Blundell was mistakenly given Martin Brundell's boarding pass, which allowed him to sit in first class. Blundell thought that he had been promoted to first driver status. Martin Brundell was not pleased at all and tried explaining and arguing with a Japanese hostess that there had been a mistake and that it was he himself who should be allowed to sit in 1st class. However, on the boarding passes, Mark Blundell and Martin Brundell are written exactly the same in the Japanese Katakana script. So Martin Brundell was unable to convince the hostesses to allow him into 1st class. So he sat in economy for the whole flight, much to his anoyance. Martin Brundell makes no mention of this story in his 'Working the wheel' book, or anywhere else it appears. The story was told by Mark Blundell in a magazine interview.

Awesome video. I grew up in South Australia and was a child at the time of this race. I lived in the Adelaide hills and though not at the race I remember being disappointed with the shortened duration. The real crazy thing is that South Australia and Adelaide in general is a very dry region of the world with an average annual rainfall in adelaide of around 540mm per year only.

There's a video of Patrick Depailler's 1978 onboard montreal wet lap where the track looks flooded and is like a mirror reflecting everything. Great sound though.

I remember the 1989 AGP well, as I was underneath the stands on the outside of the final corner, watching most of the race on a small, portable tv that someone had brought and only paying attention to what was happening on the track if it happened in front of me, such as Senna's multiple rotations that Murray Walker added the famous "spin spin spin round round round he goes" on the tv broadcast. It was absolutely bucketing down that day, as can happen in Adelaide: dry for ages, then an absolute drenching. It happened just last year, with the addition of cyclonic winds that threatened to rip off everyone's rooftops and let the wet in. So believe me when I say that the rain in 1991 was magnitudes worse than 1989. The race should never have gone ahead.

1:35 I see what you did with the starting grid randomly throwing in the 18th qualifier...

I'm from Adelaide and I clearly remember the 2 wet races in 1989 and 1991. 1989 was bad enough, but the rain that hit in 1991 was far worse. There had actually been improvements made to help with drainage after the 1989 race, but the rain in 1991 was too much for even the improvements to handle.

I am lucky enough to live in Adelaide and attended every F1 race held here (including the wet ones 😂) thank you for this story it brought back so many memories.

Love the Kurt Angle reference 😂

Watch the 89 race and watch the crash Piquet had with Ghinzani. Holy hell how did he not die? That was one of the most graphic non fatal accidents i've seen just for the sheer fact Ghinzani's tyre assembly smooshed against Piquet's helmet.

Good video. I was there for that race. Was there from the crack of dawn. The entire day was dry, right until the start of the race when the heavens opened. It was such a downpour. Interestingly, there were a couple of Supercars races which were downpours too, but at least for these they used the Safety Car.

In motorcycle racing, they usually nominate some very experienced (or in the very junior classes, those who seem to have their heads screwed on best) as in effect "rain judges". Anyone is allowed to wave their hands and point to the sky on passing the pits, but when those with championships and double-digit win numbers after their names say "it's too much", the red flag goes out. They are trusted to make the correct decision based on safety, not that they might lose some good points if it continues, and it works as a rule. If only one of them (probably in the lead) wants to stop and the others don't flinch, the race continues unless race control decides otherwise - that's usually if there have been crashes deemed to have been caused by the rain. On the grounds that if only the leader calls for a stoppage, they will be perceived negatively by their colleagues, it acts as a deterrent from calling it too soon. This can so easily be moved across to F1 that I'm surprised it isn't. The selection usually has racers throughout the grid (3-5 of them I think, depending on grid size), because the further back you are, the worse it can be. It gives race control a better image of how it's affecting everyone. I genuinely don't see why they don't have it in all forms of racing. I'm sure some 4-wheel series will already be utilising it. Listen to those whose neck is on the line. That includes the marshalls.

5:03 Prost called the Ferrair a 'truck'. If I can remember correctly, that Ferrari handled like a truck. By all accounts, that wasn't the reason he was fired, but it was used as the reason. Both sides were unhappy with the other. I remember watching that -race- CARnage. It was a race of survival and we were lucky no one got killed.

Some great Angles in this episode :-)

It was during free practice that Williams introduced the FW14b . . . Does anyone know what happened to it and was it good enough?

Loved the video, you always put out enjoyable content! You should consider a side gig as a narrator

In a way, the body language of all the drivers after the (officially) 14 laps run at that year's Grand Prix in Adelaide shows how unhappy they were. Senna was pretty blunt in saying that he didn't consider it a race at all, that it was just a case of staying on the track. He commented that standing water was so bad in the back straight that he didn't dare go above third gear for the risk of aquaplaning into the walls on either side of the track. Having said that, at least actual racing took place, unlike Spa 2021

I remember waiting for the highlights for this race. Kept away from the result and being disappointed in how it barely got started. Exciting stuff between Mansell and Senna though

Considering Mansell was one of the most hotheaded F1 drivers I'm actually shocked it wasn't the case of him breaking his foot after shoving it up another driver's arse!🤣

As soon as you mentioned the winning with a broken foot I knew there was a Perc Angle reference coming, Great work as always!

I remember reading somewhere that Hattori's pay drive took the form of minute Japanese sponsorship signatures. An early form of crowdfunding? Caterham pulling said stunt at the last race of 2014 has a distant predecessor.

There is something very special to me about this race, I was there! It was the 1st race I had ever seen live and probably remains the only time I got sunburned (on Saturday when it was in the mid 30's) and drowned in one weekend! I also got to meet Murray Walker, who did a Sunday morning Breakfast event for charity and went with a friend (and Englishman, who had been to many F1 GP's before he immigrated). We drove from Melbourne to Adelaide and stayed with some friends of his. I didn't get to see F1 live again until 2000 and I didn't get to see a full race until 2005! Ah the memories!!

His back injury nearly killed him, as he ripped a hole in the muscles down the side of his spine. And it's called a Mansell and was written up in the Dr's scientific journal.

Hi would you/have you ever considered going on the last lap podcast ???

Wow, it was only within the last week or so I made a comment that Aidan Millward should do a video on the 1991 Australian F1GP. This was in mind that nothing will come of it............... Was I fooled in that thinking?!?!?!?! Thank you Aidan Millward for doing this video........... Some poor slob from Adelaide, Australia.

i was *at* the final Adelaide GP. I was also at the first Melbourne GP. Thats how old i am!. Come to think of it, that was actually the last time i went to Adelaide....

Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.

11:07 Berger driving a McLaren with Ferrari helmet, lol.

8:00 - Mauricio "GOO-zhul-min" (i think lol)

Too true Aidan, that thing in Belgium was a total waste of time at best, I thought it was an abomination. Refunds would have probably been the end of the track. But I think they could have made Rain-Checks work out... But the BelgiumGP is certainly not your Saturday night short track.

some new sponsors on the intro screen, nice and congrats.

awesome video

I live in Adelaide and was at the track that day wearing a spare bin liner as a raincoat...

11:48 it's more like '"make them race" rather than "let them race"

Yes im 46 and was living in Adelaide at the time and had been on the old track many times it ran on the east side of the city centre

11:15 looks like a modern video game season mode. Berger with his Ferrari helmet driving a McLaren.

I remember this race from MysteryScienceTheaterF1 making poetry commentary out of it

Back in the day when Bernie ran F1, he would walk down the wet grid with all drivers strapped in to their cars, and he would point at each of them and say " you will race ,you will race ..." Lets not forget , Bernie Owned the TV coverage.

Love the Kurt Angle reference

1986 Australian GP. One of the best ever.

Can’t believe the 787B was sooo quick

Senna said after the race that in the final few laps he could only manage 3rd gear on the straight. So the red flag was the only right call I think

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I was hoping for that Kurt Angle reference. Any time someone mentions someone did something with broken bones, I 'm just waiting for it

Mansell won Australian Celebrity Wheel of Fortune during the week. Jim Richards would've been a chance of winning the race in the Nissan GTR.

I have a friend who just breaks down when he hears "Ayrton Senna." My friend lives in Brazil.

9:43 And if you haven't seen Mansell's Phoenix crash, it's legit. The impact was so massive the wall actually crumbled like wet cardboard.

Interesting use of pictures, using shots from the Phoenix, the first race of the season, when discussing the last race.

eesh i remember watching this race

This was an anti climax from the start. I'd got up in the middle of the night to watch the previous GP at Suzuka where Mansell still had a title chance..The 89 Adelaide GP you mention, in as bad conditions, was one of the most spectacular GPs I've seen. No safety car. Normal start in those conditions. I remember Senna spinning 180 and just carrying on. He was winning by quite some way when Murray Walker exclaimed.Senna has only got 3 wheels!...To put it into perspective as to how times have changed, I remember Walker asking James Hunt if there was much danger to life and limb. Hunt replied, that although it's there, the track is designed to catch cars going much faster in dry conditions, so implied its all good. Those were the days..Watch the highlights of Aus 89 Gp.

My first ever race I went to as a 11yo.

There was a super wet V8 Supercars race at … I believe … Adelaide. So wet stuff was floating down pit lane.

Guessing it was mansells left foot that was injured. And with a semi auto box and him right foot braking the foot thing didn’t hinder him

*in JRs voice* ITS MANSELL....ITS MANSELL...HES GOT A CHAIR...DAMN IT NIGEL DONT DO IT...

Hey Adam, we'd love to see you try our our F1 grand prix winners higher or lower game. Let us know what you think.

Supercars do not use the F1 circuit, most of but not all.

If only Mansell had broken more bones eh? That '92 and' 93 championship is made more impressive by that

In 28 years Aidan goes back to Spa 2021… XD

I can't believe that the crowd booed the drivers for risking their lives for entertainment. I know you payed quite a bit of money to be there and expected a show, but you have to remember if you were driving down a road on bald tires, with hurricane Katrina batering down on top of you going at speeds of 180kph plus. Would you want to pull over?

Kurt Angle reference in an F1 video ... worlds collide

Funny that even if Mansell went ahead with surgery and recovery he could had get back to drive and win the championship in 1992 given how superior Williams was. It'd be quite a story either

Prost wasn't at this race, he had been fired by Ferrari. im not sure why your saying he didnt want to make make the restart

Hola Aidan

Well...... We just had the most Dramatic F1 race at Australia. Ever.

Mansell isn't the sharpest tool in the shed...but he is tough

Prost called it a truck

Another fine video, although I might suggest looking up how to conjugate the verbs to lie and to lay so you can join the tiny minority who can use them correctly today. It was taught in school many moons ago when I went but now it's up to each of us to, like, you know, talk good. 😉

Bathurst downpours result in hydroplane accident fests, too. Australia.

Shades of Japan 2022

McLaren won the shortest gp in history with Ayrton Senna. Then 20 odd years later they won the longest with Jenson Button.

Miss Adelaide so much, although it is not for the rubbish called F1 today. But back then it was a hallmark. I'd even say Australia had the best street circuits in the world (considering also Surfers Paradise, Albert Park and even smaller tracks used for Supercars). And if you find it funny to mispronounce non-English names like Gugelmin, try Lyendyke next time.

Broken foot? Broken back? Us Brummies are the hardest in the world! FACT.

Aidan you alright? you look like you are having something like fever

Was this the one Senna called 'a complete joke'?

the race that alex zanardi shouldve gotten points in.

I never knew that about Mansell and his CART season win ,,i remember watching the races and he was faster than everyone , but crashed a few times too ,,Mansell 3was the best of his day,,,um,,has he done LeMans ??

Adelaide was so much better than Melbourne; the two aren't even close.

When people whinge about Belgium '21 and Japan' 22, show them this. We 'lEt ThEm RaCe', and they crashed. Still think they've got no balls? Senna's statement "We've got to take into consideration, for once, our lives." is one of the biggest takeaways from this event. If he says you can't race, you can't bloody race. Meanwhile, there was no confusion about how many laps we did or did not do, just dole out half points and go home. They did that in Belgium, we had a result, we didn't go through qualifying for nothing by having no points at all, so I reject all complaints about that occasion. This whole 'sliding scale of points' bollocks - I hate it, it's so unnecessary - and related wording related regulatory dancing in Japan would not have happened if they'd just done what they did here after Belgium. Say, 'oh well, shit happens, guys', accepted half points and gone home. But no, we live in the Drive to Survive era, so we live by the American 'no ties' code. This race stands as a template for what to do when things become untenable. Didn't know Mansell broke his foot though. I always went by Murray Walker's description from the highlights of "a ricked neck and twisted knee". Ouch.

Im getting sick of all you KZfaqrs complaining about Australian f1 races wow. it's a race you have to stay up to watch and you can sleep in for Sunday how about you come here to Australia where 99% of races are on Monday morning at like 2am where most cant watch cause we are asleep for work 😂

But..but..but..Max "won" the 2021 Abu Dhabi GP with a leg cramp! Way more GOAT status than winning 2 successive championships in two different disciplines with a broken foot and broken back! 🤣🤣🤣. (sarcasm off) I swear people don't give ole Nigel the credit he's due. He was a monster when he was in the zone

If you are referring to the 2021 Belgian GP as the "shortest race" in F1 then that doesn't count to me. Michael Masi was so desperate for Verstappen to win the title that year.

lol, my brain is full of useless F1 history, leaving no room for anything else. That's why Nigel is my hero, forget Senna and Schumacher.

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Mansell didn't retire with break issues. He span out and damaged his breaks. I like your videos, but the amount of excuses you make for two top British bozos (that being Mansell and Hill) is kinda pitiful.

Goo-Gel-Mun ??