Hello everybody welcome back to the WTF1 podcast. We've got a very special episode for you today

where we're speaking to F1's newest addition to the grid. Of course there are some special

circumstances with the fact Lewis Hamilton has Covid so we wish him all the best in a speedy recovery

but that's allowed a man that we've known for a very long time. We've done videos with him in the

past and it's Mr Jack Akin. Jack F1's newest hot star on the grid. You probably weren't expecting

this but at the same time it's here. How are you? Yeah pretty good. It is very unexpected to say

the least I got the call like 24 hours ago pretty much. No, a bit more than it was two days ago

initially when the news came out about Lewis and initially it's to be honest I didn't think anything

of it because they have their designated reserve drivers but obviously being the end of the year

in slightly special circumstances. George got a call up so here we are. We'll go into the

full how you found out a little bit later on but of course Tommy's here as well who he said he feels

like a proud dad or proud parent right now Tommy is that right? A little bit yeah it's I was when

when you got announced firstly my reaction was obviously pure joy and then I was looking

through some pictures to post you know to do my my proud dad to post on Instagram about about you

and yeah if anyone doesn't know 2015 was when we first started chatting and stuff and it was

Silverstone 2015 I remember you were running the WTF1 stickers on your Formula Renae Euro Cup Car

believe it was a Formula Renae 2.0 and now we're chatting on the WTF1 podcast with you as

an F1 driver unbelievable sometimes hey. That does actually kind of match with the proud parent

thing because Jack say like stop talking Tommy and Tommy's like I'm so happy I'm so happy for you.

You're a very good one. Well Tommy kind of alluded it to there but let's throw it back to the very

beginning. Jack did you ever I mean I'm sure you imagined it but did you ever think that Formula 1

would would be an opportunity that earlier on in your career whether any sort of hiccups we

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