"Gabor Vajda (@Gabor_V)" (gaborvajda)
05/24/2014 at 09:55 • Filed to: freddie hunt, james hunt, le mans, le mans 24, 24 hours of le mans, wec, world endurance championship, f1, formula 1, formula one, monaco, monaco grand prix, monaco gp
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"Gabor Vajda (@Gabor_V)" (gaborvajda)
05/24/2014 at 09:55 • Filed to: freddie hunt, james hunt, le mans, le mans 24, 24 hours of le mans, wec, world endurance championship, f1, formula 1, formula one, monaco, monaco grand prix, monaco gp | 0
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Last week I got to talk to James Hunt's son, Freddie, and his plans in the Le Mans 24 Hours. I was slightly starstruck to say the least. Sort of.
I am a keen listener of Radio Le Mans, so I had already known about Freddie's venture into sportscar racing and I sort of knew what he was doing.
It was a spur of a moment, quite honestly, he had something to write on Twitter, so I popped him the interview question:
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...to which he replied:
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That raised an eyebrow for sure. I give him my e-mail address and comes back:
Hi Gabor,
How would you like to do the interview? Email or Skype?
Cheers
To which I replied Skype would be actually awesome and I could already feel my pulse accelerating. I asked him if he was available later in the afternoon.
Im supposed to have an interview now on the telephone so after that would be good. I will add you now and call you after the interview.
Holy Cow! Now I was in trouble. He caught me totally unprepared, so I started opening tabs frantically, to catch up with everything I missed out on.
Soon after he did call me, and quite frankly, I was searching for words: It was James Hunt's voice coming out of my headphone, addressing me.
Not an easy task to conduct an interview when
the language you're using is not your native tongue
you are unprepared
you meet something that awesome
Freddie was cool and collected, toatally professional, gave round and well-put answers to my dodgy inquiries, but listening back I was asking rather interesting questions.
So, here is what we talked about.
(note: don't forget to catch Freddie at the Monaco Grand Prix this weekend, he's down there and I'm sure there are plenty people putting microphones under his nose)
(note 2: what you can learn from such encounters is that many times you just have to ask)
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