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Hi, I'm Mark Weber and you're listening to Beyond the Grid.

Hello all, it's TC here with another episode and another driver who are Aussie listeners

Michael Aripper of a guest. It's Mark Weber, a man whose commitment on track was matched by his

one-liners' off-it. During his career he won nine-grown pre-for-red bull and a sports car world

championship for Porsche and he's now retired and doesn't have a race license of any kind.

We caught up at the Goodwood Festival of Speed so if you hear the roar of engines,

that's why. We've known each other for 20 odd years and I've interviewed Mark hundreds of times

but never like this and if you want headlines to lure you in, think Vettel, Alonzo,

Schumacher, they're all in there and he has interesting things to say about each of them.

He speaks directly and honestly and still has so much passion for the sport and as you'd expect

of someone who's taken to TV, Punditry so seamlessly he's a great listener.

Well Mark, welcome to Beyond the Grid. I just want to start by reflecting a little bit really.

You've been retired now for a wee bit of time. How do you look back on it? Is it a bit of a dream

sometime? Definitely. I think when you get older I think you get more secure. In a way you get more,

well let's tolone of things that could have been trivial in the past and arts would

have trivialed out. Things that might have been a bit of a beat up whether it's professionally

personally. I think I need hopefully get a little bit more chip and mature up which race and

drivers are quite late on that in many ways. I can be. It's amazing how fast it goes which is

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