Interview with a Villeneuve

 


Just writing the title to this weeks blog still doesn't make it feel real.

We were face to face (on Zoom) with a racing legend and about to start talking to him about his career.

For many sports journalist this is a very simple task I imagine. 

However, it's fair to say that neither Brian nor I have any media training or have any remote exposure to journalism.

We do our podcast as a passion hobby and just have fun doing it.

Back in late 2021 when we came up with the idea of doing it, there was never any thought given to one day having an F1 World Drivers Champion on our humble little show.

This Sunday that's exactly what will happen as we drop our episode that contains our chat with Jacques Villeneuve.

Woo-hoo, I made it onto the Dirty Side pod!

We've sat on this for nearly two weeks as we did not want this to be a bolt on to a regular race review episode.  

Our vision was to ensure it dropped on a non-race weekend so it could take center stage.

Therefore it was only natural that, as we were bursting at the seams with excitement over this, F1 should serve up a back to back set of races in the calendar and make us wait longer.

However, as this weekend is an empty week, we can finally publish and share with all our listeners.

We tried to avoid going over too many things we've already heard him asked about and even when talking about THAT moment in Jerez '97 we tried to not go after the well trodden path.  If you listen in you'll hear him talk us through the moments immediately after this incident.

Out of my way, I'm off to the Dirty Side

He shared some great stories with us from his time spent racing across various formats and was a pleasure to speak with.

If you heard last weeks Austrian GP review episode then you would have heard me admit to being a little star struck and having a mental block when trying to start the conversation.

As I said, I'm not going to edit that out.  I think it just shows how much we're fans first just hanging out and chatting all things Formula 1.

That's it really for this week on the blog.  We have promotional stuff to go and bombard social media with.

Why?

Didn't you hear?

We have Jacques Villeneuve on the show this week ;-)

Please listen and also please tell people about this weeks show. 

Until next time,

Rob


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