Tiff Needell on racing in F1 and his 40-year TV career #202
The Intercooler
Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel are joined by professional racing driver and television presenter Tiff Needell. Tiff raced in Formula 1, stood on the podium at Le Mans and even competed in touring cars, rallying and rallycross. Later on he presented Top Gear with Jeremy Clarkson before helping to create Fifth Gear. In this episode he explains what it's like to qualify an F1 car at Monaco, how he got his big break in racing and why he's now beginning to lose interest in F1...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Intercooler Podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | Hi everybody, welcome back to the Intercooler Podcast with me Dan Prosser, Andrew Frankel, my co-host, and we are delighted to be joined this week by a very special guest, |
| 0:16.0 | Tif Niedale. Tif, welcome to the Intercola podcast. |
| 0:19.1 | Well, thank you for inviting me on. |
| 0:21.1 | No, it's a pleasure to have you here. |
| 0:24.4 | Tiff, your big news at the moment |
| 0:25.6 | is that you're back on our tele screens. |
| 0:27.5 | Good news for all of us. |
| 0:29.0 | Love cars on the road on Amazon Prime. What can you tell us about it? |
| 0:34.0 | Well, it all sort of started just as a YouTube thing. |
| 0:37.0 | So after 15 years on top gear and 15 years on fifth gear, |
| 0:41.0 | I joined Paul Woodman, what was his love cars for, you know, |
| 0:45.0 | YouTube channel, which we mucked around for a few years, and then he got some |
| 0:49.3 | money to make a TV series. We did Series 1, which went out on I TV four. |
| 0:53.2 | It was about five or six years ago, |
| 0:55.2 | but then COVID struck and all that, finding the money and we actually, I think it was Japan, |
| 1:00.1 | was actually asked for a second series of love cars on the road. I've seen it in Japan |
| 1:06.0 | dubbed obviously it looks quite strange when you're in Japanese. So they wanted the |
| 1:11.0 | second series and then we went around the world and Paul managed to get a prime video involved and they've taken it on they've got both of them, |
| 1:19.0 | series one, six hours and then now series two and they put them on it was all a nightmare |
| 1:23.8 | one listening that happened to try to watch us last week |
| 1:26.8 | they launched because I TV still own series one in the UK they couldn't put up Series 1, sort of by TVX. |
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