‘Quick Nick’ Heidfeld on his fastest team mates, his toughest rivals and the best F1 car he drove

F1 Beyond The Grid

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News, Leisure, Sports News, Sports, Automotive

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🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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This week’s guest was one of the quickest and most consistent drivers of the 2000s. In fact, Nick Heidfeld stood on the podium 13 times, which is the most any driver has in history without winning a race. But don’t think of that as a dubious honour, more a reflection of the quality of a man who went toe-to-toe in equal machinery with the likes of Robert Kubica, Mark Webber and Kimi Raikkonen and frequently came out on top.

On this week’s show Quick Nick chats to Tom Clarkson about his 183-race F1 career; the cars, the teams and the rivals who impressed him most – plus what it was like to grow up in the hot bed of driving talent surrounding Michael Schumacher’s home kart track…

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0:30.0	I am the kitefell at your listening to Beyond the Grid.
0:38.8	Hi everyone and welcome to Beyond the Grid.
0:41.2	My name's Tom Clarkson and once again, I hope I find you safe and well during this period
0:46.2	of Covid-19 crisis.
0:48.2	I know life's difficult at the moment, but hopefully you're going to enjoy the next hour or so
0:53.0	because we've got a really interesting conversation coming your way.
0:56.8	My guest is a 13 time podium finisher in Formula 1.
1:00.4	In fact, it's crazy to think that this guy didn't win a race
1:04.2	because his junior Formula credentials were exceptional.
1:07.6	He was champion in Formula 3 and in Formula 3000,
1:11.0	the series that back then resembled F2 today.
1:14.2	He then graduated to Formula 1 in 2000 with the racing world at his feet
1:19.0	and he was regarded by many as Germany's next shumy.
1:22.6	Yet he never quite got the success he looked so uncoarsely.
1:25.8	Not too often, he was in the right place at the wrong time.
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