Live: F1, IndyCar and Le Mans ace Mark Blundell #314
The Intercooler
Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Andrew Frankel and Dan Prosser interview Mark Blundell, live at the Bicester Scramble. They discuss his humble roots, his rise to F1, move to IndyCar, the Le Mans win in 1992 and his best qualifying lap ever. Not to forget the 198mph crash into the wall in Rio...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome Mark. So we were just chatting behind here. And we believe that you hold the distinction |
| 0:10.7 | among F1 drivers. You're the only F1 driver ever whose first home was a caravan. |
| 0:18.0 | Correct. Yeah. Statistic home, I think he said. |
| 0:22.6 | Yeah, a static mobile home just to be factually correct, yeah. |
| 0:26.6 | So that was my first home. |
| 0:28.6 | We were, it was actually located, if anyone's from the Barnet area, Mill Hill. |
| 0:34.6 | There used to be two Ford dealerships, actually, Godfrey Davis Ford dealerships. |
| 0:39.5 | They were either side of the A1. And one of the sites had a static mobile home park. |
| 0:47.0 | And my late father, that was his first home with my mother. And actually, I think I didn't even have a cop I had the bottom drawer of |
| 0:56.7 | a chest of drawers that's where I started life so yeah I mean yeah keeping it real so the the |
| 1:04.3 | subtext here is that it's unusual for someone from a very very humble background to go on to |
| 1:09.3 | from the bottom drawer of a chest of drawers. |
| 1:11.6 | To the top, from the bottom to the top. |
| 1:14.6 | Well, I only had four draws to go up, so it wasn't... |
| 1:17.6 | It wasn't too bad, yeah. |
| 1:19.6 | Yeah, so... |
| 1:21.6 | Listen, I mean, that was the background. |
| 1:24.6 | We actually gravitated down the A1 corridor. |
| 1:28.6 | And actually, my first house was on a council estate, which I remember very well in Letcherworth |
| 1:36.0 | Garden City, the Jackman's estate. |
| 1:38.7 | And that's probably where I got my affinity with two wheels, because I remember as a kid, |
| 1:43.0 | that's all I ever did without my bike until it got got stolen so yeah it was definitely a council estate so yeah we're |
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