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F1 Beyond The Grid

30 Days of BTG – Day 20: Kevin Magnussen’s racing roots

F1 Beyond The Grid

karenellenbevan

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4.75.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

By age 2, Kevin Magnussen was already driving. What else do you expect from the child of an F1 driver? In this clip from 2019, Kevin tells Tom Clarkson how his racing career was inspired by his father Jan – a former McLaren driver – and encouraged by his mother, Britt.

Follow F1 Beyond The Grid for daily archive clips in the build up to a brand-new episode on Wednesday March 1st.

Want more Magnussen? Kevin’s 2019 BTG appearance is here.  His 2022 interview can be heard here 

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Hello it's Tom here. So yesterday I asked you who we choose for day 20 of our preseason series.

0:41.3

Did you guess correctly? It had to be driver number 20 Kevin Magnuson.

0:47.3

This season he'll be paired up with yesterday's guest Nico Holkemberg at HASS.

0:52.4

Those two have got some history. And Kevin's got a great story too. He scored a podium in his

0:58.8

very first F1 race. But let's go further back than that. In this archive highlight from 2019,

1:05.5

Kevin remembered growing up with his racing driver father Jan and his mum Britt.

1:10.6

Mum is not a racing fan at all. I at least she wasn't. She met my dad at a very young age.

1:16.2

They were like 15 or so. My mum and dad were 17 and 18 when I was born. So really young.

1:24.9

And my dad was still in coding when my mum got pregnant. So it was all very new to her.

1:33.4

And then I was born about a year after. And then I started coding pretty much straight away

1:41.9

when I was like two years old or something. So for my mum it's obviously been a huge part of

1:49.2

her life because she had my dad when they were together. And then straight away I started

1:58.5

coding every day. So she was thrown into it. And I think now she loves it.

2:06.6

She watches everything and she knows everything about it and follows everything.

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