Twenty-five years ago Formula 1 was stunned by a Monaco Grand Prix for the ages in which Olivier Panis took his first ever F1 victory. Now, on the latest episode of the Beyond The Grid podcast, Panis recalls that sensational weekend in great detail.
French rugby player and ex-F1 racer Guy Ligier’s eponymous squad always showed potential: from 1992-96, they enjoyed an average championship finish of sixth and even scored a few podiums. In 1996, the team gave it their all to prepare for Monaco but a mis-firing engine had Panis starting down in 14th on the grid. A quarter of a century later, he recalled the Mugen engineers’ emotions in the garage on Saturday.