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"text": " We enter in this personal adventure of working with a talent like Adrian."
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"text": " I want to experience that behind the wheel, yes, but I'm not too scared of working alongside somehow"
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"text": " and seeing Aston winning even if I'm not behind the wheel."
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"text": " Because I will feel when I'm not ready to give something extra behind the wheel to the team"
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"text": " and maybe someone else can do a better job and I will be very honest on that"
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"text": " and I will not be disconnected to the team so I will feel if we win eventually"
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"text": " and when I'm not driving I will enjoy it a little bit as well."
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"text": " This episode is brought to you by Salesforce, a global partner of Formula One."
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"text": " With Salesforce, the number one AICRM Formula One is transforming the fan experience."
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"text": " Welcome everyone to this week's F1 Beyond the Grid."
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"text": " I am delighted to say that we're joined by Fernando Alonzo."
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"text": " Fernando, how are you? Very good, how are you?"
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"text": " I'm great and I feel that now is a great time to have you on the podcast"
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"text": " because there's so much to discuss about the future"
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"text": " but can we start by being a bit reflective about the big number that's happening in Mexico?"
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"text": " 400 races? I mean, that's insane."
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"text": " It is, I think 400, even though I think now the calendar is a little bit longer"
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"text": " and you accumulate 24 every year and not like in the past."
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"text": " But you're taking account that I've been 2 years out."
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"text": " 2019 and 2020, you know, to reach 400 now is a big number"
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"text": " and you know, it's a way of demonstrating my passion for the sport and for Formula One."
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"text": " How proud are you of that number?"
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"text": " Not proud, I mean it doesn't mean too much for me right now"
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"text": " because you are racing and you are focusing the next weekend."
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"text": " But yeah, knowing that no one reached that number in the past"
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"text": " and maybe someone does in the future but not many, let's say, a group of 5 or 10 maximum."
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"text": " As I said, you know, you just demonstrate my love for racing for Formula One."
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"text": " You know, how much I enjoyed this lifestyle as well, motor racing in general."
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"text": " And yeah, even if traveling is demanding racing is just paying off all the sacrifices."
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"text": " What would the 19-year-old Fernando Alonso, the guy that lined up in Melbourne 2001 in that minority?"
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"text": " What would he make of this moment?"
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"text": " I'm not sure. I think that guy, 2001, I was not really thinking too much in the future."
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"text": " I was, yes, a driver that, you know, the dream was coming alive,"
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"text": " driving for Formula One, the first race."
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"text": " And I would say that I was, I didn't have a clear roadmap into my career."
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"text": " You know, I didn't know exactly what was the next race, what would be my next team."
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"text": " You know, I was just very, I was improvising, you know, every weekend was a, was a new adventure."
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"text": " What I would say that when I won the championship in 2006 and then I joined McLaren,"
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"text": " I had a three-year contract, 2007, 2008 and 2009."
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"text": " And I was 99 percent sure that 2009 would be my last Formula One season."
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"text": " And that was my plan very clear planning in my head."
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"text": " You know, I won the championship in 2005, won the championship in 2006, joined McLaren for three years."
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"text": " And that was my last contract in my head."
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"text": " Why?"
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"text": " Also, what were you going to do? I don't know, maybe I had, maybe it was not reason for it."
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"text": " But when I signed that contract and it was also a three-year contract."
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"text": " So in my head at that time, it was like a long-term contract and, okay, three years will feel maybe long."
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"text": " But, you know, this is the last anyway, you know, I will, I already fulfilled my dream."
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"text": " You know, I won the championship two times, you know, this is beyond my wildest imagination, you know,"
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"text": " I want to be a Formula One champion. So what else can I do here, you know?"
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"text": " So I signed this contract with McLaren, hope to win more championships, hope to win more races."
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"text": " But after Formula One, there are a different life outside, you know, and even not so much about motor racing."
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"text": " I was thinking, you know, I will have my family, I will do normal things, normal days, and then, yeah."
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"text": " So, referring to your question, I don't think that the 19-year-old Minardi 2001 Fernando will think something strange about the 400-gram prix,"
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"text": " because I was not thinking too much in the future, but, at 2007, for sure, this will be a surprise."
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"text": " It seems then that your relationship with Formula One has evolved as you've gone along."
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"text": " And at what point did you start thinking long at time?"
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"text": " Indeed, I've all, yes, I learned things, I accepted things, which I didn't, at some point in my career, I have a sense of justice and a sense of furnace that you have to disconnect, if you are an informal one."
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"text": " There are no furnace here, there are no justice sometimes."
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"text": " And you have to just deal with the unique things in this sport. There are a lot of politics, there are a lot of interest, there are some decisions that, you know, maybe are not so much in the sportive side, you know, it has some different background on those."
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"text": " And you have to accept it, if you want, if you want, if you would like to be part of the circles, you have to accept certain things."
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"text": " If not, you find another category, which is exactly what I did in 2018. I was not happy with myself, I was not, I was not enjoying Formula One at that moment, not only on track, also off track, you know, the domination of Mercedes, it was just, I don't know, I felt okay, this is time."
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"text": " And I still love motorsport, I still love driving cars."
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"text": " So let's try the 500, the Le Mans, all these kind of things. And then I came back to everyone, enjoying more of one, not because everyone did change too much, is because again, I accept things that Formula One has and you take it or you leave it."
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"text": " So it was that two year break when you learn to accept Formula One for what it is."
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"text": " So yeah, yes, yeah, I would say it wasn't earlier than that."
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"text": " Earlier, I had few years that I was enjoying Formula One just because the team was giving me that enjoyment and that satisfaction of being a Formula One driver."
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"text": " I was a year at Ferrari, I did enjoy, you know, despite the results, I was fighting for championships, I won few races, I was enjoying Italy, the Tiffosi, being a Ferrari driver."
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"text": " So those years were a happy place for me. Then I joined McLaren, it was the Honda era."
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"text": " We had problems, you know, performance, we had problems with the power unit, all the things we know, but I wasn't enjoying because my love for Japan, my, the connection of McLaren Honda, which was a little bit the inspiration that my father had to build my first go-car, that it was a replica of the Senna-Prost Formula One at that time."
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"text": " So I was enjoying that time and then 2017, 2018, I was just not enjoying so much and I decided to stop."
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"text": " I did want to ask you about that second stint of McLaren and the relationship with Ron Dennis, because, you know, as he said, it was a three year deal at McLaren first time around, came to an end after one year."
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"text": " How was it getting back into bed, so to speak, with Ron?"
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"text": " He was okay. Initially, when I left Ferrari and joined McLaren, Ron was not part of the organization. I was dealing always with Martin and with Honda, dearly."
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"text": " So, you know, Ron was not there, arrived like two months before the season started, or in November before 2015, so November 2014."
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"text": " So, yeah, I was a little bit curious. I was a little bit scared, you know, of how the relationship will be, the first time that I met Ron, that now he joined the team two months after I signed, that I will join the team, you know."
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"text": " So, I didn't know that when I signed for McLaren, but, no, he was very open. I was very, we were, we had a conversation the first time, you know, a little bit, not laughing, but, you know, taking a little bit out of, you know, the stress."
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"text": " Of the previous relationship, and Ron, in a way, he's a competitor, and he's a man that doesn't want to lose, you know, and he will do anything to win a race."
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"text": " So, in a way, you know, I was happy, you know, to have that Ron and that, you know, determination for the McLaren Honda project."
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"text": " Then, obviously, he had other businesses inside, and he had other things, not only the sportive side, and, you know, I think, it didn't work well for, for any of us."
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"text": " There's no doubt that watching an open-wheel race car take a turn at almost 200 miles an hour is exciting. But true fans know that the real thrill of a Formula One race is in the details."
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"text": " From engine specs to tire choice to split second decisions made around every turn. The more you know about the driver's teams, cars and tracks, the bigger the thrill."
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"text": " If we were to talk about the key moments in your career so far, what would they be?"
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"text": " I think it will be my first race win, 2003. This was probably the biggest changes. The biggest change for me personally."
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"text": " I'm in terms of being recognized in the streets, being kind of celebrity in Spain and this was a big change because when I won the championship, that was just a continuation of that 2003 first victory."
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"text": " I would say 2003, win was a key part of my life and my career obviously the two championships. Ferrari time, those years and then the Le Mans and WEC championship. Those are the key moments of my career."
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"text": " When you're at Ferrari and you're walking through the corridors there and all the photographs of louder and everyone there, do you feel that?"
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"text": " It's so clear talking to you that it's all about tomorrow. It's all about winning."
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"text": " And just still talking about that 2010 season with Ferrari, how was your mindset?"
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"text": " Because I did want to ask you about the opportunity to go to Red Bull for that previous season in 2009."
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"text": " Adrian, you had designed a good car. They'd won their first race with Mark and Sebastian. How were you feeling about maybe that being a missed opportunity?"
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"text": " I didn't thought too much about that. Never. Not those years and not even now. I never regret anything."
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"text": " So yeah, that was the amazing story."
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"text": " Yeah, you never know."
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"text": " But I think to predict that they will win 7.08 championships in the next decade, it was not totally guaranteed."
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"text": " And when Luis changed from McLaren to Mercedes, that first year in 2013 was a lot of critics."
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"text": " And now he's a seven-time world champion. And now the same with Ferrari. You don't know what Luis will achieve next year."
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"text": " If Ferrari does well and winner championship is a great move. If Mercedes does well, you know, and they win a championship is a bad move. How you can predict that?"
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"text": " It's been such a fascinating career for you so far."
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"text": " I did want to ask how your relationship with speed and driving has changed with experience, with age. I mean, they say that drivers never lose it. You just lose the desire."
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"text": " So how have you kept the desire, the passion, and how, as you've got older, do you approach a wet Suzuki or a wet spar?"
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"text": " Has that changed in the last 10 years?"
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"text": " I didn't change yet. No. It's exactly the same."
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"text": " So if you and I were to play paddle together, right? Would you want to absolutely have a chance?"
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"text": " I'll find. May well be right. But would you would beating me be enough or would you actually have to crush me?"
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"text": " Everything I do. I do is just maximum pain for my rivals. Can we not play paddle?"
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"text": " Sometimes I have to accept that I cannot win, but then I will put you in a list of people that I will not play paddle for the next month until I know for sure that I improve my level."
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"text": " Or if I cannot achieve that, I will never play against you again. Ever."
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"text": " Because I hate losing. I will have a bad night after we play. But now my relationship with speed is the same."
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"text": " A couple more races I wanted to ask you about. The comeback, the podium without pain. Did that reassure you in some way?"
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"text": " Was there never in any doubt?"
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"text": " He did. I have huge confidence, overconfidence sometimes on myself and my performance."
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"text": " No, I was under-driving. I was thinking too much."
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"text": " I will move forward in the next corner because if not, we will lock the rear a little bit, then I was driving like this, which is not the natural driving."
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"text": " That was my comeback and then going back to your question, when I was going to be faster, I was just more relaxed, I was happier, and then the podium was like, yeah, not weight out of my shoulders, but it was like, okay, I'm happy with my comeback."
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"text": " It's very clear to me as an observer, but I'd love to know what you think."
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"text": " I would say Monaco 2023 or Zambor. You would say Brazil?"
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"text": " So since Wednesday, the Monaco preparation for me was the biggest and most precise preparation I ever did in a weekend."
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"text": " But didn't Ferrari I was happy for sure because the environment and the Italian style"
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"text": " McLaren and Honda was a very romantic way of living in Formula One at that moment"
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"text": " because it was my first go-car."
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"text": " Well let's talk about Adrian Neue now."
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"text": " Is he the final cog in the world?"
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"text": " How does the team now have everything it needs to produce?"
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"text": " If you compare to any other tighter contender, we are just three, four years old."
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"text": " The team."
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"text": " Naturally we have to learn through mistakes."
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"text": " This is the only thing that is missing or we will face in the next few years."
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"text": " At the same time is my biggest enemy."
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"text": " I don't have that time to go through that process of making mistakes and learning from those."
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"text": " I think with Adrian now the team has all the ingredients."
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"text": " Wind tunnel."
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"text": " Having our own wind tunnel in house where you can produce a part tested."
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"text": " Analyze it."
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"text": " Maybe come back tomorrow."
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"text": " We don't have now."
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"text": " We are just using the Mercedes wind tunnel."
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"text": " When we are allowed to use it in their time they tell us and this is what we have."
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"text": " This is going to be a game changer for the team."
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"text": " Adrian is just the man producing the fastest cars in the world."
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"text": " Plus he will be a great leader for a lot of young people we have."
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"text": " I know you were chatting to him in the back of the car."
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"text": " You have been able to chat to Adrian properly."
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"text": " Do you find him stimulating?"
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"text": " Are you quite similar in your approach to the sport?"
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"text": " I don't know well enough Adrian to know when he is motivated or less motivated."
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"text": " In which state of mind he is now for the project."
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"text": " I think listening to him and I think the knowledge that he has about motor racing is enough to make a difference on any organization."
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"text": " For us for sure it is going to be like that."
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"text": " He can see things by the first look that he will take one month for a group of very clever people to spot that."
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"text": " This is priceless in Formula One because the race is next week."
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"text": " We don't have one year to analyze a thing."
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"text": " I think that magic will be incredible to witness."
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"text": " It is not a professional adventure that I am in now in Ashtamart."
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"text": " It is a personal adventure that I am so looking forward to have lunch with him to sit with him in a meeting room or in a race weekend."
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"text": " In a race weekend in Ayrport taking a flight together."
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"text": " It will be so rewarding for me personally as well to learn from Amanda."
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"text": " Clearly it is all about 2026 with the rule changes."
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"text": " Do you think he can influence 25?"
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"text": " It is going to be so close and his holistic view of how to go racing and how to set up a car will help."
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"text": " And actually, and being honest, the 2025 is unlikely that we fight for big things."
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"text": " If we see now 24, how things are going, top four teams, big gap to rest of the teams."
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"text": " I don't think that anyone can close that gap next winter."
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"text": " And it changes a lot."
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"text": " But the biggest goal is 26 and I think he should focus on that."
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"text": " You talk about closing the gap. The gap is not big."
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"text": " And I'm going to remind you that you were only what two tenths of poll in Montreal this year."
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"text": " Well, the final of the ones I'm sitting opposite seems more energized, enthusiastic."
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"text": " I don't want to stress too much about that."
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"text": " Obviously I will race 25-26."
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"text": " And I will discuss it for sure with Lawrence and with Adrian eventually."
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"text": " What will be the best for the team?"
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"text": " I have a long-term commitment with Aston."
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"text": " I will be working for Aston for many years behind the wheel or in a different position."
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"text": " And as I said, because we enter in this personal adventure of working with a talent like Adrian,"
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"text": " I want to experience that behind the wheel, yes."
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"text": " But I'm not too scared of working alongside somehow and seeing Aston winning, even if I'm not behind the wheel."
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"text": " Because I will feel when I'm not ready to give something extra behind the wheel to the team."
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"text": " And maybe someone else can do a better job."
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"text": " And I will be very honest on that."
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"text": " I will not be disconnected to the team, so I will feel if we win eventually."
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"text": " And when I'm not driving, I will enjoy it a little bit as well."
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"text": " What a brilliant shot. I mean, 400 races. Here's to the next 400."
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"text": " I think you're going to be around a long time."
},
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"text": " Can I end this in what I call the traditional way?"
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"text": " We have some quick fire questions."
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"text": " Very quickly. What else are you good at?"
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"text": " You see not much."
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"text": " Not many things. I would say cooking and my good chef."
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{
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"text": " What's your signature dish?"
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"end": 2328.0,
"text": " Bayella."
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"start": 2328.0,
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"text": " Not your seafood, bayella."
},
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"text": " Which racing person, dead or alive, would you like to be stuck in a lift with?"
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"end": 2341.0,
"text": " Erton Senna."
},
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"text": " It was my idol. It was my inspiration to become a Formula One driver."
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"start": 2346.0,
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"text": " You know, it will be probably the name that I will choose."
},
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"text": " Is there one thing you'd like to ask Erton Senna?"
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{
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"text": " No, I'm normally not a person of asking too many questions."
},
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"text": " I'm a good listener."
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"text": " And I love to listen to people that I admire and learn from them."
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"text": " Who would play you in a film?"
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{
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"end": 2373.0,
"text": " No idea. Brad Pitt. Handsome one."
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"text": " Who is the coolest person in your contacts?"
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"start": 2377.0,
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"text": " No idea. They are all cool."
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"start": 2380.0,
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"text": " I have a lot of contacts in my phone, but 99% of my usage of my phone is with my family."
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"start": 2389.0,
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"text": " All the rest is just there, but I'm not a phone guy."
},
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"text": " Now, I know you've just said you don't like to ask questions, but if this is the final question,"
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"text": " if you had a podcast like this, who would be your first guest?"
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"text": " Max Wistartvin."
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"text": " I'd listen to that."
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"text": " All right."
},
{
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"text": " And I know great to have you on. Thank you very much."
},
{
"start": 2411.0,
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"text": " Thank you."
}
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