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Normal parade." }, { "start": 28.0, "end": 35.0, "text": " And then all of the sudden I get someone shouting at my name and I see him, you know." }, { "start": 35.0, "end": 37.0, "text": " He was quite a funny moment." }, { "start": 37.0, "end": 40.0, "text": " He was very close to your face." }, { "start": 40.0, "end": 43.0, "text": " Paras, yeah, yeah, remember his face pretty well." }, { "start": 43.0, "end": 44.0, "text": " Bruce Baffer." }, { "start": 44.0, "end": 45.0, "text": " Las Vegas." }, { "start": 45.0, "end": 47.0, "text": " It was an awkward moment to watch." }, { "start": 47.0, "end": 48.0, "text": " How did you feel at the time?" }, { "start": 48.0, "end": 50.0, "text": " Yeah, it was pretty cool, obviously." }, { "start": 50.0, "end": 52.0, "text": " It's such an icon." }, { "start": 52.0, "end": 55.0, "text": " Bruce, that was really, really cool." }, { "start": 55.0, "end": 62.0, "text": " And at the time I was just confused, you know, I had no idea where to go, what to do." }, { "start": 62.0, "end": 67.0, "text": " And then Luis was looking for a lift because his car was not working." }, { "start": 67.0, "end": 69.0, "text": " So he took my car." }, { "start": 69.0, "end": 73.0, "text": " So we ended up going on both on my car." }, { "start": 73.0, "end": 75.0, "text": " It was quite a funny thing." }, { "start": 75.0, "end": 79.0, "text": " It was just a funny, amazing weekend Vegas, wasn't it?" }, { "start": 79.0, "end": 82.0, "text": " And then of course you go on to finish on the podium." }, { "start": 82.0, "end": 84.0, "text": " Was there a good party afterwards?" }, { "start": 84.0, "end": 88.0, "text": " No, I flew back straight away before Abu Dhabi." }, { "start": 88.0, "end": 92.0, "text": " You know, I went home for a few days." }, { "start": 92.0, "end": 95.0, "text": " And because then obviously it was a long way." }, { "start": 95.0, "end": 100.0, "text": " You know, I was going to spend afterwards like two, three weekends 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well." }, { "start": 124.0, "end": 131.0, "text": " And the last time I saw you actually was at the FIA prize giving in Baku, at the start of December." }, { "start": 131.0, "end": 134.0, "text": " Were you there to pick up your P2 trophy?" }, { "start": 134.0, "end": 135.0, "text": " Where is it?" }, { "start": 135.0, "end": 137.0, "text": " Where'd you keep it?" }, { "start": 137.0, "end": 141.0, "text": " At the moment, it's in my room." }, { "start": 141.0, "end": 149.0, "text": " Every time we had my room at home, we tried having a brother to, I want to send it back to the office." }, { "start": 149.0, "end": 150.0, "text": " But we haven't." }, { "start": 150.0, "end": 152.0, "text": " Still, still there at the room." }, { "start": 152.0, "end": 155.0, "text": " It's at the risky place, you know, with the kids." }, { "start": 155.0, "end": 157.0, "text": " They keep playing with it." }, { "start": 157.0, "end": 158.0, "text": " Still alive." }, { "start": 158.0, "end": 160.0, 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wind down?" }, { "start": 293.0, "end": 295.0, "text": " Or can you just switch off?" }, { "start": 295.0, "end": 299.0, "text": " It's hard to disconnect because you are always thinking what" }, { "start": 299.0, "end": 303.0, "text": " went right wrong, what you can improve, how you can be a better driver," }, { "start": 303.0, "end": 307.0, "text": " how you can prepare better for next season." }, { "start": 307.0, "end": 312.0, "text": " It's always in the back of your mind, although locally," }, { "start": 312.0, "end": 315.0, "text": " when I'm home, it can be really far away." }, { "start": 315.0, "end": 317.0, "text": " And I have a life out of the sport." }, { "start": 317.0, "end": 320.0, "text": " But at the end of the day, this is my life." }, { "start": 320.0, "end": 324.0, "text": " And I want to be the best possible I can." }, { "start": 324.0, "end": 330.0, "text": " It's difficult to separate, but at times it works well." }, { "start": 330.0, "end": 336.0, "text": " And when I'm at home, I'm fully into my family and into my friends." }, { "start": 336.0, "end": 339.0, "text": " And yeah, not much Formula One." }, { "start": 339.0, "end": 342.0, "text": " What do you do to unwind?" }, { "start": 342.0, "end": 348.0, "text": " It really comes automatically, obviously, I keep training when I'm at home." }, { "start": 348.0, "end": 351.0, "text": " Do you not even have a break from that?" }, { "start": 351.0, "end": 353.0, "text": " Oh, do you mean on the break?" }, { "start": 353.0, "end": 354.0, "text": " Yeah, yeah." }, { "start": 354.0, "end": 355.0, "text": " Oh, on the break." }, { "start": 355.0, "end": 358.0, "text": " I don't train at all." }, { "start": 358.0, "end": 364.0, "text": " I try to, but I think I went to the gym once or twice, not much." }, { "start": 364.0, "end": 369.0, "text": " I don't actually believe you, because here we're recording this at the preseason test." }, { "start": 369.0, "end": 374.0, "text": " And I've seen a lot of drivers come up to you and compliment you on your physique," }, { "start": 374.0, "end": 376.0, "text": " saying that you look stronger." }, { "start": 376.0, "end": 378.0, "text": " That doesn't happen by doing nothing." }, { "start": 378.0, "end": 381.0, "text": " No, I mean, the thing is that we get back to it in January." }, { "start": 381.0, "end": 387.0, "text": " So, effectively, you get to 2 maximum, 3 weeks of doing nothing." }, { "start": 387.0, "end": 389.0, "text": " It's very hard to lose any form." }, { "start": 389.0, "end": 395.0, "text": " You know, you lose some, but we do so much training when the year starts that doesn't change." }, { "start": 395.0, "end": 397.0, "text": " Any new hobbies?" }, { "start": 397.0, "end": 399.0, "text": " Same hobbies." }, { "start": 399.0, "end": 401.0, "text": " Golf, karting." }, { "start": 401.0, "end": 404.0, "text": " Now I'm more into karting with my son." }, { "start": 405.0, "end": 407.0, "text": " We go together to race." }, { "start": 407.0, "end": 410.0, "text": " Football, we play a lot of football now together." }, { "start": 410.0, "end": 416.0, "text": " And basically, my biggest hobby is to be with my family." }, { "start": 416.0, "end": 417.0, "text": " So you've got four kids." }, { "start": 417.0, "end": 420.0, "text": " Are we talking about Sergio Jr.?" }, { "start": 420.0, "end": 422.0, "text": " Yeah, he's the oldest." }, { "start": 422.0, "end": 424.0, "text": " And he's the one that you go karting with." }, { "start": 424.0, "end": 427.0, "text": " Yeah, I do everything with him now, karting." }, { "start": 427.0, "end": 429.0, "text": " We seem to have the same passions, even the..." }, { "start": 429.0, "end": 431.0, "text": " Even golf." }, { "start": 431.0, "end": 435.0, "text": " He likes golf, but he doesn't have time to play at the moment." }, { "start": 435.0, "end": 442.0, "text": " Because he's so busy with football and karting that he's really hard to get another sport." }, { "start": 442.0, "end": 444.0, "text": " So, tell me about his karting." }, { "start": 444.0, "end": 446.0, "text": " Is he quick?" }, { "start": 446.0, "end": 448.0, "text": " When are we going to see him in Formula One?" }, { "start": 448.0, "end": 451.0, "text": " What's the... is it just a hobby or is he serious about it?" }, { "start": 451.0, "end": 453.0, "text": " For now, it's just a hobby." }, { "start": 453.0, "end": 455.0, "text": " I mean, it's a six-year-old kid." }, { "start": 455.0, "end": 457.0, "text": " He really likes it. He enjoys it." }, { "start": 457.0, "end": 459.0, "text": " He's very competitive." }, { "start": 459.0, "end": 465.0, "text": " But it's up to him to do it." }, { "start": 465.0, "end": 468.0, "text": " I would support him on anything that he wants to do, of course." }, { "start": 468.0, "end": 470.0, "text": " But it will be up to him." }, { "start": 470.0, "end": 472.0, "text": " All right. We can all learn from our mistakes." }, { "start": 472.0, "end": 478.0, "text": " Is there a mistake from your junior Formula career, karting specifically," }, { "start": 478.0, "end": 484.0, "text": " that you've learned from, that you can teach him, and he can avoid doing himself?" }, { "start": 484.0, "end": 489.0, "text": " I think I was really lucky in a way on my karting." }, { "start": 489.0, "end": 494.0, "text": " The reason is because I couldn't afford to go to Europe to Italy." }, { "start": 494.0, "end": 498.0, "text": " So basically, all my karting was done in Mexico." }, { "start": 498.0, "end": 505.0, "text": " But I was always racing guys with a lot of their ages and not myself." }, { "start": 505.0, "end": 507.0, "text": " So, that was a good thing." }, { "start": 507.0, "end": 514.0, "text": " It kind of complemented in a way, the lack of not being in Europe" }, { "start": 514.0, "end": 519.0, "text": " with Italian drivers, with all the European drivers." }, { "start": 519.0, "end": 522.0, "text": " They have a pretty high level." }, { "start": 522.0, "end": 530.0, "text": " I will have loved to drive karting in Europe, but we couldn't afford it." }, { "start": 530.0, "end": 536.0, "text": " So, I think there's nothing we did wrong in my karting days with the opportunities" }, { "start": 536.0, "end": 541.0, "text": " that we have. Obviously, I lack the opportunity to do karting in Italy." }, { "start": 541.0, "end": 546.0, "text": " I think that we'll have to help a lot in those early days, but we never had the opportunity." }, { "start": 546.0, "end": 549.0, "text": " Right. You're a Formula One driver." }, { "start": 549.0, "end": 552.0, "text": " He's going to have more opportunities than you did." }, { "start": 552.0, "end": 555.0, "text": " Are we going to see Sergio Jr.? Why the way? Sergio Jr." }, { "start": 555.0, "end": 556.0, "text": " Is he Czecho as well?" }, { "start": 556.0, "end": 557.0, "text": " Czecho as well." }, { "start": 557.0, "end": 559.0, "text": " And does he have a Czechinho?" }, { "start": 559.0, "end": 561.0, "text": " No, just Czecho." }, { "start": 561.0, "end": 562.0, "text": " Just Czecho, okay." }, { "start": 562.0, "end": 565.0, "text": " But will we see Czecho Jr. racing in Italy, do you think?" }, { "start": 565.0, "end": 570.0, "text": " Well, if he wants to, at the moment, he's racing mainly at my karting track" }, { "start": 570.0, "end": 575.0, "text": " with like 10 to 20 other kids." }, { "start": 575.0, "end": 579.0, "text": " And yeah, we'll see." }, { "start": 579.0, "end": 585.0, "text": " I think he will do some, later on, some races probably in the U.S. in Mexico." }, { "start": 585.0, "end": 591.0, "text": " And then we see when we come to Europe, I think he will do some more karting over here." }, { "start": 591.0, "end": 596.0, "text": " And if he really wants to do it, then I think once you go into Italy," }, { "start": 596.0, "end": 601.0, "text": " he will have to really see if he likes it or not." }, { "start": 601.0, "end": 607.0, "text": " And how will you feel if he at the age of 14 goes, I'm leaving home?" }, { "start": 607.0, "end": 611.0, "text": " I'm going to go and live in Germany, above a restaurant?" }, { "start": 611.0, "end": 614.0, "text": " I won't be able to speak a word of the language." }, { "start": 614.0, "end": 616.0, "text": " Of course, I'm talking about what you did." }, { "start": 616.0, "end": 618.0, "text": " And now you're a parent." }, { "start": 618.0, "end": 621.0, "text": " Can you see what you put your parents through?" }, { "start": 621.0, "end": 624.0, "text": " When you did that, it's a massive effort." }, { "start": 624.0, "end": 631.0, "text": " The only reason I'm here is because all my family, all together, we gave it all." }, { "start": 631.0, "end": 638.0, "text": " And if that's his dream, I think to me, happiness is about pursuing your dreams." }, { "start": 638.0, "end": 646.0, "text": " And if that's his dream, I will support him, although it hurts a lot to lose a son that goes so early away." }, { "start": 646.0, "end": 650.0, "text": " But it will help him in his character." }, { "start": 650.0, "end": 654.0, "text": " Regardless of if he makes it or not into the sport, into the phone one," }, { "start": 654.0, "end": 656.0, "text": " it will help him so much." }, { "start": 656.0, "end": 662.0, "text": " So I will be really proud for him to pursue his dreams." }, { "start": 662.0, "end": 669.0, "text": " And if he does end up on a different continent to you, at least the phone bills are a bit cheaper now." }, { "start": 669.0, "end": 672.0, "text": " Because how much did you spend on your home?" }, { "start": 672.0, "end": 674.0, "text": " What was the worst thing?" }, { "start": 674.0, "end": 677.0, "text": " I was lucky 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What was being said?" }, { "start": 1569.0, "end": 1580.0, "text": " No, basically, I mean, one thing is that mentally you have to be strong and making sure that you're focused on the red stuff, you know, because in Formula One, there are so many distractors." }, { "start": 1580.0, "end": 1588.0, "text": " There are distractors around and people that are experts all around the world and they know exactly what's going on." }, { "start": 1588.0, "end": 1591.0, "text": " But you are inside and you have no clue." }, { "start": 1591.0, "end": 1597.0, "text": " So just making sure you're focused on your job, it's a monkey." }, { "start": 1597.0, "end": 1605.0, "text": " Don't let any noise or any of the outside noise influencing any of your decisions. 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You have to remember that we are at the pineapple of the sport." }, { "start": 1775.0, "end": 1788.0, "text": " So there's always pressure. You always have to deliver at all conditions, at all races. That's normal. But at Red Bull, it certainly has changed a bit." }, { "start": 1788.0, "end": 1802.0, "text": " There's a recent way that lots of drivers have been survived because the amount of pressure, the amount of focus on yourself," }, { "start": 1802.0, "end": 1812.0, "text": " they don't measure the same all the teams. I feel like how they measure Red Bull is different to anyone else." }, { "start": 1812.0, "end": 1818.0, "text": " And how has social media ramped up the noise that we're talking about?" }, { "start": 1818.0, "end": 1824.0, "text": " Because when he started, there was no, there was no, there you're right. I think quite a lot." }, { "start": 1824.0, "end": 1836.0, "text": " I think I'm privileged because I'm maybe all there and I grew up without social media. Yeah, it can be really toxic." }, { "start": 1836.0, "end": 1850.0, "text": " So I'm not a big fan of that. So I always try to stay away from it and making sure that I'm able to come here to my job, give my everything prepared as best as I can." }, { "start": 1850.0, "end": 1860.0, "text": " That's all I can do. I can try 1000 times at the end of the day. The most important is to do with your team, try to deliver." }, { "start": 1860.0, "end": 1869.0, "text": " The outside noise will always be there. There's nothing you can do about it, but it's important to make sure that you are able to shut it down." }, { "start": 1869.0, "end": 1873.0, "text": " And how much noise is coming out of Mexico?" }, { "start": 1873.0, "end": 1891.0, "text": " Well, a lot. The expectations back home, it's big. The support I get is pretty big. It's just great. I think I'm being a Latin American driver, in full one." }, { "start": 1891.0, "end": 1904.0, "text": " It's a big thing because that comes with a lot of people behind. I'm very privileged to have such a support from home." }, { "start": 1904.0, "end": 1908.0, "text": " And I can only say that it's a great privilege to have." }, { "start": 1908.0, "end": 1920.0, "text": " Tell us a little bit more about your fame in Mexico, because I think when we go there, you are literally staring at us from every billboard." }, { "start": 1920.0, "end": 1930.0, "text": " Is it true that you even had a burner phone, a mobile phone, the race last year, just have a different phone, just cut the noise back." }, { "start": 1930.0, "end": 1938.0, "text": " Is that true? Yeah, it's true. It's a very intense weekend. The energy from Mexico." }, { "start": 1938.0, "end": 1949.0, "text": " It's a big thing. Probably for the European drivers, there are a lot more use to have everyone drivers here and there every now and then." }, { "start": 1949.0, "end": 1963.0, "text": " But for my country, for Latin America, it's something like, you don't get a lot. It's a big thing back home because it just sounds crazy." }, { "start": 1963.0, "end": 1976.0, "text": " Having a Mexican in Formula One, it's quite a big thing. I mean, in our history, we've only had five or six drivers in this sport." }, { "start": 1976.0, "end": 1986.0, "text": " It's really hard to make it into the sport, but to have a successful career in Formula One, it's another level." }, { "start": 1986.0, "end": 1995.0, "text": " What would it mean to you to do the biz at the Mexican Grand Prix? You finished on the podium, but that win. What would it?" }, { "start": 1995.0, "end": 2001.0, "text": " I'm looking at you now on the podium, on the middle step. I think there would be tears." }, { "start": 2001.0, "end": 2015.0, "text": " Well, I don't know how you will react to it, but it will be a big dream for me. You know, to be able to win at home in front of my home crowd will mean a lot." }, { "start": 2015.0, "end": 2029.0, "text": " Do you dream about that? It's a dream. Yeah, definitely a dream. A big one. I've won great races, historic races, but I think one that I'm missing is winning at home." }, { "start": 2029.0, "end": 2040.0, "text": " So funny one, isn't it? Jensen Button never won the British Grand Prix. And he always says, oh, I'll give up so many of the other races just to have won at Silverstone. Do you feel the same way about makes you?" }, { "start": 2040.0, "end": 2047.0, "text": " Yeah, it is because winning at home and you're something a lot more special than anything else." }, { "start": 2047.0, "end": 2058.0, "text": " And how do you manage the expectation? Because as you say, you're mobbed everywhere you go, 90% of the people at the race track are there to see one man." }, { "start": 2058.0, "end": 2069.0, "text": " Does that give you energy? How do you just keep a lid on things and make sure that you drive as you know you can drive a knot and not let it spill over?" }, { "start": 2069.0, "end": 2076.0, "text": " It's again the same as the whole season, you know. But it's different. It's Mexico, it's Czecho and Mexico." }, { "start": 2076.0, "end": 2087.0, "text": " Yeah, but at the same time it's a championship. There are 24 races out there. When Mexico finishes off, it gives them the same amount of points." }, { "start": 2087.0, "end": 2097.0, "text": " If there is a race that you want to do even better, it's obviously your home. But the best way to do it is by focusing on track, focusing on the right self." }, { "start": 2097.0, "end": 2101.0, "text": " Because it's so easy to get distracted from it and get carried away from it." }, { "start": 2101.0, "end": 2110.0, "text": " But how do you stay focused? I'm fascinated about you. It's interesting your entourage, the people that you take with you to the races." }, { "start": 2110.0, "end": 2118.0, "text": " It's very similar to the one that you had back in the day. Louis has been with you since the early days. Is it savvy? Your trainer still comes to you?" }, { "start": 2118.0, "end": 2127.0, "text": " How important is it for you to just have those old friends, old faces around? Does it help keep you grounded? Does it help keep you focused?" }, { "start": 2127.0, "end": 2136.0, "text": " Yeah, but also having the contact with your race team, making sure that I always take them for dinner when we are in Mexico." }, { "start": 2136.0, "end": 2147.0, "text": " Because I like to remember myself and them that we hit for Formula One and that Formula One experience, above anything else." }, { "start": 2147.0, "end": 2151.0, "text": " That is the main thing for us. What restaurant?" }, { "start": 2151.0, "end": 2160.0, "text": " We always changing the restaurants. But the last three or four years we have always done a team dinner in Mexico with you." }, { "start": 2160.0, "end": 2168.0, "text": " Just max turn up, or is it just your side of the garage? Sometimes, no, the whole team. I invite the whole team. And Max has been to a couple of them." }, { "start": 2168.0, "end": 2172.0, "text": " Cool. Just while we're on the topic of Mexico." }, { "start": 2173.0, "end": 2182.0, "text": " I don't know how into music you are, but I've been told that you've featured in two music videos in the last 12 months." }, { "start": 2182.0, "end": 2185.0, "text": " One with bad bunny." }, { "start": 2185.0, "end": 2186.0, "text": " Yeah." }, { "start": 2186.0, "end": 2195.0, "text": " There's no disrespect to bad, but I haven't heard of bad bunny. My kids might have done. I don't know. Just tell me about bad bunny and the making of the vid." }, { "start": 2195.0, "end": 2211.0, "text": " Yeah. He was back in Monaco. And he was there and some bits were recorded and went into his song, I think, which is called Monaco." }, { "start": 2211.0, "end": 2221.0, "text": " Yeah, I mean bad bunny is huge in Latin America. Yeah, it's a phenomenon back in America." }, { "start": 2222.0, "end": 2227.0, "text": " And there's even a, is there a song about you that has also been quite successful?" }, { "start": 2227.0, "end": 2234.0, "text": " There have been a few, a few songs in the past. How does that feel? You've got songs being written about you, Jacko." }, { "start": 2234.0, "end": 2245.0, "text": " Are they love songs? No, no, they're not love songs. There's another one from Carine Le\u00f3n as well that is also a very famous Mexican singer." }, { "start": 2245.0, "end": 2253.0, "text": " And there's another one or two more that they've done about me." }, { "start": 2253.0, "end": 2255.0, "text": " Can you sing?" }, { "start": 2255.0, "end": 2257.0, "text": " I'm really bad singer." }, { "start": 2257.0, "end": 2261.0, "text": " I don't want to hurt the audience. Just a line now? No, no, I don't want to hurt them." }, { "start": 2261.0, "end": 2267.0, "text": " I've heard a few at coming on maybe with Shalla Clare. You know Shalla's just released a new album, right?" }, { "start": 2267.0, "end": 2273.0, "text": " Yeah, yeah, yeah. I asked him earlier, where he is in the charts and he refused to tell me." }, { "start": 2274.0, "end": 2280.0, "text": " Come on, we all know you guys are so competitive. He's probably there every morning looking to see where he is on the charts." }, { "start": 2280.0, "end": 2283.0, "text": " I'm sure he's looking at it. It's got to be number one." }, { "start": 2283.0, "end": 2289.0, "text": " So the songs about you, aren't there curries about you? There's a curry house in Oxford." }, { "start": 2289.0, "end": 2293.0, "text": " Curry house? Curry is not about me. He's just in the menu. It's one of my friends." }, { "start": 2293.0, "end": 2296.0, "text": " What is it? What is it? Is it a..." }, { "start": 2296.0, "end": 2300.0, "text": " It's called Chaco P\u00e9rez Fiesta, which is a dish. It's a menu." }, { "start": 2300.0, "end": 2305.0, "text": " What is it? It's a curry of a little bit more spicy curry. Yes." }, { "start": 2305.0, "end": 2312.0, "text": " Quite tasty, actually. Yeah. It's near Silverstone. It's a curry place that I've been going since I was in Formula 3 days." }, { "start": 2312.0, "end": 2316.0, "text": " Oh, okay. Yes. It's like going home. Yes, it's pretty much." }, { "start": 2316.0, "end": 2320.0, "text": " It's next to Silverstone. Embroidery. Okay." }, { "start": 2320.0, "end": 2324.0, "text": " Now, a little bit more about your preparations." }, { "start": 2324.0, "end": 2332.0, "text": " I mentioned earlier, 257 races. You're not the new kid on the block anymore." }, { "start": 2332.0, "end": 2336.0, "text": " But have you done anything different in your preparations this year?" }, { "start": 2336.0, "end": 2340.0, "text": " What do you tweak it? Fernando Alonzo, for example, has changed his diet." }, { "start": 2340.0, "end": 2344.0, "text": " He says he's going to deal with the jet lag differently this year." }, { "start": 2344.0, "end": 2348.0, "text": " I'm not sure how he's going to do that. But are you going to do anything differently?" }, { "start": 2348.0, "end": 2363.0, "text": " Yeah. Firstly, physically, I try to put more training in place in place for the start of the season." }, { "start": 2363.0, "end": 2373.0, "text": " Because then later on, it's all about maintaining. So, trying to get a little bit more time in it has been beneficial." }, { "start": 2373.0, "end": 2384.0, "text": " I feel comfortable in the car. And yeah, the other things just trying to minimize the travelling that we end up doing." }, { "start": 2384.0, "end": 2391.0, "text": " You know, planning better, the simulator days, the days that I go back to Europe or back to Mexico," }, { "start": 2391.0, "end": 2399.0, "text": " we're trying to reduce the travelling. It's quite important because when you think about it, it's 24 races." }, { "start": 2399.0, "end": 2405.0, "text": " Planning also the schedule for sponsors. For all the sponsors we have in the team." }, { "start": 2405.0, "end": 2411.0, "text": " But all the days we have, it's quite a thing now, the planning of your schedule." }, { "start": 2411.0, "end": 2420.0, "text": " Right now we are all fresh and smiley. But when we go halfway through the season and still there is another 15 races to go," }, { "start": 2420.0, "end": 2423.0, "text": " it's important to keep the energy level high." }, { "start": 2423.0, "end": 2430.0, "text": " How are your physical numbers? Are you fitter now than you've been prior to any season in Formula One?" }, { "start": 2430.0, "end": 2432.0, "text": " You say you're trying to up it?" }, { "start": 2432.0, "end": 2439.0, "text": " Yeah, I think it's always very hard. Obviously you have these numbers that you based on quite a bit on them." }, { "start": 2439.0, "end": 2446.0, "text": " But there are a lot of other things. You know, you have a restrained during the year. It's a lot harder to measure." }, { "start": 2446.0, "end": 2455.0, "text": " I feel good. I felt really good yesterday. I jumped in the car and I started away. I was doing a race in the car." }, { "start": 2455.0, "end": 2464.0, "text": " So I feel good. It's a little bit painful always. The shoulders are hurting because of the seat position, not being used." }, { "start": 2464.0, "end": 2472.0, "text": " The neck is just getting used to those places of your body, but it's just part of it." }, { "start": 2472.0, "end": 2478.0, "text": " Is your seat position in the car the same as last year? Is it the same every year?" }, { "start": 2478.0, "end": 2482.0, "text": " Yeah, but you are always making adjustments with new cars." }, { "start": 2482.0, "end": 2489.0, "text": " Hides going up, going down, always trying to figure it out where you put it." }, { "start": 2489.0, "end": 2494.0, "text": " Do you sit a little higher in the car for the street races?" }, { "start": 2494.0, "end": 2498.0, "text": " Something Mika Hickenon used to do. He used to sit a little bit higher." }, { "start": 2498.0, "end": 2506.0, "text": " I'm just sitting with these tires. 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it would be easy for him." }, { "start": 2912.0, "end": 2915.0, "text": " And for me, it's all about results." }, { "start": 2915.0, "end": 2920.0, "text": " So after 14 years, you get less bothered about it." }, { "start": 2920.0, "end": 2923.0, "text": " It's not like when you are a lot younger," }, { "start": 2923.0, "end": 2926.0, "text": " you are a lot more concerned of Formula One." }, { "start": 2926.0, "end": 2929.0, "text": " You think Formula One is too big when you come here," }, { "start": 2929.0, "end": 2931.0, "text": " and then you realize that as well." }, { "start": 2931.0, "end": 2932.0, "text": " It's just a sport." }, { "start": 2932.0, "end": 2936.0, "text": " And has the senior management at Red Bull giving you a target?" }, { "start": 2936.0, "end": 2941.0, "text": " Is there a, is it a number of wins that they won't need to achieve?" }, { "start": 2941.0, "end": 2944.0, "text": " Or is it just, is it less specific than that?" }, { "start": 2944.0, "end": 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can you remember the Eureka moment when you first fell in love with Formula One?" }, { "start": 3024.0, "end": 3030.0, "text": " Well, it was when we started karting very much in, when we were four, four, five years old." }, { "start": 3030.0, "end": 3036.0, "text": " It's when that was the first time that I was like, well, I hope one day I can be there." }, { "start": 3036.0, "end": 3041.0, "text": " And whatever happens this year, Eureka is going to love Formula One forever." }, { "start": 3041.0, "end": 3047.0, "text": " Yeah, definitely, you know, it's been my life for many years," }, { "start": 3047.0, "end": 3051.0, "text": " not just a year that I've driven in Formula One since before, you know," }, { "start": 3052.0, "end": 3054.0, "text": " it has given me everything." }, { "start": 3054.0, "end": 3060.0, "text": " It's been, yeah, I think I will always be grateful to Formula One" }, { "start": 3060.0, "end": 3064.0, "text": " and it's been a massive pleasure to be part of it, you know," }, { "start": 3064.0, "end": 3071.0, "text": " I think every single people that come here and see how this sports operate," }, { "start": 3071.0, "end": 3077.0, "text": " it's a great thing, you know, and it's just great to be part of it." }, { "start": 3077.0, "end": 3079.0, "text": " Many more years to go though." }, { "start": 3079.0, "end": 3084.0, "text": " Yeah, yeah, not that many, but they are good years ahead." }, { "start": 3084.0, "end": 3088.0, "text": " Until you become a racing dad with Sergio Juni, you need to always race." }, { "start": 3088.0, "end": 3090.0, "text": " We race, yeah, exactly." }, { "start": 3090.0, "end": 3095.0, "text": " I don't want to say it never, but you never know what the future holds, you know." }, { "start": 3095.0, "end": 3099.0, "text": " Once you retire, you really want to go, I feel like the day I retire," }, { "start": 3099.0, "end": 3104.0, "text": " I really want to go disappear for a few years, you know, and do something different." }, { "start": 3105.0, "end": 3108.0, "text": " But you never know if I have to be here." }, { "start": 3108.0, "end": 3110.0, "text": " Chaco, it's been brilliant to have you on the board." }, { "start": 3110.0, "end": 3111.0, "text": " Thank you very much for your time." }, { "start": 3111.0, "end": 3115.0, "text": " Before you go, we've got a new thing this year." }, { "start": 3115.0, "end": 3118.0, "text": " I'll quick fire questions, okay?" }, { "start": 3118.0, "end": 3120.0, "text": " And I've got five." }, { "start": 3120.0, "end": 3123.0, "text": " What else are you good at, number one?" }, { "start": 3125.0, "end": 3127.0, "text": " Good question." }, { "start": 3129.0, "end": 3132.0, "text": " I'm lucky to be a racing driver, I'll say." }, { "start": 3132.0, "end": 3138.0, "text": " No, no, I'm good at..." }, { "start": 3143.0, "end": 3145.0, "text": " What are you good at?" }, { "start": 3145.0, "end": 3148.0, "text": " What are you interviewing?" }, { "start": 3148.0, "end": 3151.0, "text": " Luckily I'm asking the question." }, { "start": 3151.0, "end": 3153.0, "text": " It's a good question." }, { "start": 3153.0, "end": 3155.0, "text": " Goal?" }, { "start": 3155.0, "end": 3157.0, "text": " No, I haven't really discussed goal." }, { "start": 3157.0, "end": 3159.0, "text": " You're obsessed with it." }, { "start": 3159.0, "end": 3162.0, "text": " I'm a good striker, football striker." }, { "start": 3162.0, "end": 3165.0, "text": " Are you better at football than golf?" }, { "start": 3165.0, "end": 3167.0, "text": " Yes." }, { "start": 3167.0, "end": 3170.0, "text": " You seem convinced by that." }, { "start": 3170.0, "end": 3173.0, "text": " Yeah, I'm not that good at golf." }, { "start": 3173.0, "end": 3175.0, "text": " I don't have the time." }, { "start": 3175.0, "end": 3177.0, "text": " Football comes more naturally." }, { "start": 3177.0, "end": 3179.0, "text": " Second question." }, { "start": 3179.0, "end": 3183.0, "text": " Which racing driver would you want to be stuck in a lift with?" }, { "start": 3183.0, "end": 3185.0, "text": " A life or..." }, { "start": 3185.0, "end": 3188.0, "text": " Let's do both." }, { "start": 3188.0, "end": 3191.0, "text": " Well, obviously Arton Senna, you know," }, { "start": 3191.0, "end": 3194.0, "text": " we love to meet him." }, { "start": 3194.0, "end": 3196.0, "text": " I think he was a great guy." }, { "start": 3196.0, "end": 3199.0, "text": " I feel like we have a lot in common." }, { "start": 3199.0, "end": 3204.0, "text": " How we see this sport and how we lift our lives as well." }, { "start": 3204.0, "end": 3209.0, "text": " So, obviously, the Latin blood is just something we will have" }, { "start": 3209.0, "end": 3212.0, "text": " understand each other a lot." }, { "start": 3212.0, "end": 3215.0, "text": " A life..." }, { "start": 3219.0, "end": 3221.0, "text": " Good question." }, { "start": 3221.0, "end": 3224.0, "text": " I mean, I see all these drivers every single weekend," }, { "start": 3224.0, "end": 3228.0, "text": " so I wouldn't like to get stuck with none of them." }, { "start": 3228.0, "end": 3232.0, "text": " I think more from my previous teammates, you know," }, { "start": 3232.0, "end": 3236.0, "text": " with Koyashi, with Jensen." }, { "start": 3236.0, "end": 3241.0, "text": " I think those were great teammates and great guys to hang up with." }, { "start": 3241.0, "end": 3243.0, "text": " Question three." }, { "start": 3243.0, "end": 3245.0, "text": " Who would play you in a film?" }, { "start": 3245.0, "end": 3247.0, "text": " Tom Cruise." }, { "start": 3247.0, "end": 3249.0, "text": " Of course he would, right?" }, { "start": 3249.0, "end": 3250.0, "text": " Right." }, { "start": 3250.0, "end": 3252.0, "text": " Question four." }, { "start": 3252.0, "end": 3256.0, "text": " Who is the coolest person in your address book?" }, { "start": 3256.0, "end": 3259.0, "text": " I'm not really that much into fame," }, { "start": 3259.0, "end": 3263.0, "text": " so I would say more of a normal people," }, { "start": 3263.0, "end": 3268.0, "text": " just my friends, you know, I think who's your coolest friend?" }, { "start": 3269.0, "end": 3271.0, "text": " What do you mean with Kool?" }, { "start": 3271.0, "end": 3274.0, "text": " Just bad bunny." }, { "start": 3274.0, "end": 3277.0, "text": " I have good friends, you know," }, { "start": 3277.0, "end": 3283.0, "text": " that I think when you have those friends where you can just call them" }, { "start": 3283.0, "end": 3288.0, "text": " and have a laugh about a good day or a bad day," }, { "start": 3288.0, "end": 3294.0, "text": " and just make like half fun and laugh about anything." }, { "start": 3294.0, "end": 3296.0, "text": " You have a good click." }, { "start": 3296.0, "end": 3298.0, "text": " I digress, there is one more question." }, { "start": 3298.0, "end": 3301.0, "text": " But do you have any genuine friends on that grid?" }, { "start": 3301.0, "end": 3305.0, "text": " Or is the intensity of the rivalry too strong?" }, { "start": 3305.0, "end": 3309.0, "text": " I think we have a lot of respect for each other." }, { "start": 3309.0, "end": 3315.0, "text": " I think we've all gone through a lot to be here." }, { "start": 3315.0, "end": 3317.0, "text": " But we all here for ourselves," }, { "start": 3317.0, "end": 3319.0, "text": " and we all want to be the best of ourselves." }, { "start": 3319.0, "end": 3322.0, "text": " I think once you finish the sport," }, { "start": 3322.0, "end": 3325.0, "text": " you become great friends because you've been sharing this for so many years." }, { "start": 3325.0, "end": 3331.0, "text": " That automatically, it doesn't matter if we don't see each other ever again in our lives." }, { "start": 3331.0, "end": 3337.0, "text": " We know that one day when we see 20, 30 years from now," }, { "start": 3337.0, "end": 3342.0, "text": " we will remember with pride, you know, a name." }, { "start": 3342.0, "end": 3345.0, "text": " And it's something that's hard to explain," }, { "start": 3345.0, "end": 3348.0, "text": " but I'm sure what I'm telling what I'm talking about." }, { "start": 3348.0, "end": 3350.0, "text": " A lot of drivers get it, you know, because..." }, { "start": 3350.0, "end": 3352.0, "text": " People have been on the same journey." }, { "start": 3352.0, "end": 3353.0, "text": " Exactly." }, { "start": 3353.0, "end": 3355.0, "text": " We've been on the same journey for so long," }, { "start": 3355.0, "end": 3358.0, "text": " and it's just right now," }, { "start": 3358.0, "end": 3361.0, "text": " we all focus on our careers so much." }, { "start": 3361.0, "end": 3363.0, "text": " And it's the same to us in the world." }, { "start": 3363.0, "end": 3367.0, "text": " You know, we have very different persons to..." }, { "start": 3367.0, "end": 3369.0, "text": " to our normal people, you know," }, { "start": 3369.0, "end": 3371.0, "text": " because we live so much on this sport," }, { "start": 3371.0, "end": 3373.0, "text": " and this sport takes so much out of us," }, { "start": 3373.0, "end": 3375.0, "text": " that it's really hard just to..." }, { "start": 3375.0, "end": 3378.0, "text": " to be normal in that regard." }, { "start": 3378.0, "end": 3382.0, "text": " So once we're finished with this, I feel like everything feels more..." }, { "start": 3382.0, "end": 3384.0, "text": " or feels more natural." }, { "start": 3384.0, "end": 3386.0, "text": " Yeah. Right, final one." }, { "start": 3386.0, "end": 3391.0, "text": " If you hosted a podcast, who would be your first guest?" }, { "start": 3391.0, "end": 3395.0, "text": " Well, I have to go big, so I will invite Cristiano Ronaldo." }, { "start": 3395.0, "end": 3397.0, "text": " Right? Have you met him?" }, { "start": 3397.0, "end": 3399.0, "text": " Yeah, yeah, yeah, I met him." }, { "start": 3399.0, "end": 3402.0, "text": " I think we'll be..." }, { "start": 3402.0, "end": 3405.0, "text": " No, just people that..." }, { "start": 3405.0, "end": 3408.0, "text": " that have done great things with their lives," }, { "start": 3408.0, "end": 3410.0, "text": " that have good impact to society." }, { "start": 3410.0, "end": 3413.0, "text": " I think it's important these days" }, { "start": 3413.0, "end": 3418.0, "text": " to look at people that are..." }, { "start": 3418.0, "end": 3420.0, "text": " are not just successful," }, { "start": 3420.0, "end": 3423.0, "text": " that are good for us," }, { "start": 3423.0, "end": 3426.0, "text": " are good examples to look up." }, { "start": 3426.0, "end": 3428.0, "text": " How was Cristiano Ronaldo?" }, { "start": 3428.0, "end": 3431.0, "text": " Did you tell him what a great striker you were?" }, { "start": 3431.0, "end": 3433.0, "text": " No, I didn't." }, { "start": 3433.0, "end": 3436.0, "text": " He's friends with one of my friends," }, { "start": 3436.0, "end": 3438.0, "text": " so he's..." }, { "start": 3438.0, "end": 3441.0, "text": " yeah, Gregay, remember I met him a few years ago in..." }, { "start": 3441.0, "end": 3444.0, "text": " well, many years ago in Madrid." }, { "start": 3444.0, "end": 3446.0, "text": " Yeah, he's a good guy." }, { "start": 3446.0, "end": 3447.0, "text": " Alright." }, { "start": 3447.0, "end": 3449.0, "text": " Check out. It's always a joy speaking to you." }, { "start": 3449.0, "end": 3451.0, "text": " Thank you very much for your time." }, { "start": 3451.0, "end": 3453.0, "text": " Best of luck in 2024." }, { "start": 3463.0, "end": 3465.0, "text": " Thank you." } ]