Stories of the unsung heroes

Stefano Modena

Team Tyrrell

Drivers’ championship 8th

Highlights Qualifying second at Monaco, finishing second at Montreal

Tyrrell got hold of potent Honda V10s for 1991, and Modena and the 020 showed plenty of potential. But, as engineer Nigel Beresford – who ran Modena that year – recalls, results were hard to come by

We failed Stefano. He signed up for one thing and got another. He was coming to Tyrrell and we had Harvey Postlethwaite and, at the time he signed, we had Jean-Claude Migeot, Joan Villadelprat as team manager. The 019 was clearly a special car – we were going to put the Honda engine in the back of it and it all