Belgian GP preview with Eddie Jordan
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🗓️ 24 August 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
After what feels like an eternity, F1 is almost back, with the teams and drivers heading to the awesome Spa-Francorchamps circuit for the Belgian Grand Prix. And who better to look forward to the action than three-time Belgian GP winner Damon Hill and Tom Clarkson, who this week are joined by Eddie Jordan, Damon’s former boss who enjoyed his first F1 win with the 1996 world champ in Spa in 1998! They discuss the unique challenge of the circuit, who the track is likely to favour, and of course look back on some moments from the past, including Schumacher’s debut in ‘91 and of course that famous first Jordan win in the wet in ‘98…
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| 0:00.0 | I imagine you immediately wanted to get away and go on an aeroplane somewhere when you've got home, no? |
| 0:07.2 | Ah, so not the case. |
| 0:09.6 | Do you know what I've done, very, very little since I last saw you at DH? |
| 0:13.5 | It was really nice. |
| 0:15.0 | You've been working so hard. |
| 0:17.2 | Well, you too, you too, got that? |
| 0:19.5 | Not much happens, does it, in the break? |
| 0:22.2 | I mean, I've been scaring not much. |
| 0:24.4 | It's like all the PR people as well, all the press people have given up as well. |
| 0:28.0 | They kind of, they don't tweet, they don't speak, they don't write, they never call. |
| 0:33.2 | Here's the thing, DH, exactly. |
| 0:35.6 | It is the one time in the year that Formula One stops over Christmas. |
| 0:40.0 | People are going in on Christmas Day to build the new car and things like that. |
| 0:44.1 | So this two week period is the only silence that we get from Formula One. |
| 0:48.8 | So I was pretty silent, although DH, did you see Alonzo driving his Alpine Formula One car |
| 0:56.0 | at Le Mans prior to the start of the race last weekend? |
| 0:59.2 | Oh, that was a lot, I assumed it was, I'll call them. |
| 1:02.1 | But they were both there, but Alonzo driving it, yeah. |
| 1:04.8 | Yeah, I mean, that's fantastic, isn't it? |
| 1:06.5 | You know, actually, you couldn't keep going for 24 hours, I don't think. |
| 1:09.3 | Not in that thing, probably. |
| 1:10.9 | I really wanted to know what lap time he could do. |
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