Hello everyone, it's time for F1 Nation!

Tom Clarkson here welcoming you back to a new season of the show, and for those of you

who are listening at the end of last year, you'll know that Alex Jakes is off to Pastures

New at Channel 4, good luck my friend, and that means I've got new teammates this year

on the nation, and I think you're going to approve.

This is Natalie Pinkham reporting for duty and very excited and very much looking forward

to a long, busy and hopefully hugely entertaining season ahead.

Oh Pinkx, it's great to have you on the show, and of course, you're fully embedded with

SkyF1, but you're going to save your best chat for the nation aren't you?

Of course, of course.

I mean this is, you know, where the gloves are off and we can say exactly what we really

think of me.

Exactly.

Now that's teammate number one, teammate number two, that's me Damon, I think, referring

to the old champ Damon Hill, and so I don't know if we can stand in for Alex Jakes, he

had that particularly powerful commentators voice, didn't he?

So, but I'm going to be bringing some of my insights as an ex-driver, someone who's actually

been out on the track, so hopefully I can help you a long time with some of the thoughts

that perhaps drivers think when they're racing.

This has to be a career highlight for you, shading that 96 world title, right?

This is it, it just gets better and better, doesn't it?

Well look Tom, I was actually trying to work out how much experience we collectively have

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