February 19, 2023 • 18 mins
If your team’s car is out the front of the F1 pack, this is THE guy you want to be behind the mic commentating… and he’s on his way to Perth!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Formula one fans will be very excited because Crafty is
on his way to town. We speak of David Croft,
the man you want behind the microphone if your team
of your car is at the front of the pack
at the end of a Formula one race, David Croft
is joining. Guess he'll be joined by Karen chad Hot
in Perth on twenty twenty three. We're speaking of April
three and four at All Saints College in Ball Creek.
Tickets from Tribe Booking dot com. Crafty, Good morning, mate, welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good morning. How are you? What a very silly time
to be awake, but it's great to be with you.
How's it go?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
It's silly here, silly o'clock. What time is it where
you are?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
It's nine o'clock on a Sunday night. Oh god, you've
just disturbed my pre season viewing. I'm on season nine,
episode twenty. Have married at first Site Australia.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
You're all worry. He's a man.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
If you thought you're mad some napties on that one.
Why do you say the next season?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
My god, my friend, my friend said to me, if
you do nothing else over the course of the winter,
you've got to get into Married at First Sight Australia.
I hate my friend at this moment. It's unmissible, it
really is.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
It is unmissable.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
We all hate ourselves for watching it, but please try
to put it out of your mind before you come
and arrive on our stage here.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I'm worried about Mitchanella forty eight hours ago. I'm worried
about I'm worried about dom Can she keep her mouth
shut for a whole episode? I think that's impossible. I'm
worried about Olivia and Jackson because it's just too good
to be true? What's happening with Dion? Can those teeth
get any whiter?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Spoiler alert? Don can't keep her mouth shut?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Now?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
When did you first fall in love with fast cars?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
See what you've done there, Married at First Night Australia
and falling in love? There's not much of that going on.
And when did I fall in love with fast cars?
I've always loved fast cars, and it's impossible not to
love at fast cars. It's one of those things is
even as a kid, one of the things you learned
to pronounce is now, and you just get excited at
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watching fast cars. I remember once when my son, my
oldest son, Daniel, was about four, and he walked into
the commentary box and Murray Walker was there, and Murray
and Daniel started a conversation. It was an eighty year
old man the four year old boy, and I couldn't
work out who was more in love with fast cars
at the time. It spans the ages, this thing. And
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he's got my healthy obsession with fast cars and he
could talk about them all day as well. I always have,
ever since a kid. And the fact that I get
to watch fast cars and talk about them and do
it for a job. I mean, seriously, this is Willy
Wonka material. I've taken the keys to the candy shop
and I've never let them go.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Were you like me? I was at Greenwood High School
in Berth as a teenager with my mates, and we
would come and show our drawings of the Lamborghini contagents.
We were real can hoods. Were you like that as well?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Love? Well, seriously, I struggled to draw an apple and
a banana, let alone a Lamborghili. To be fair, my
artistic skills were not that good. But I learned to
talk about things and that that's helped me along the years.
That that's good at least what about you? What were
you drawing at whatever high school you went to?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Nothing?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Really, I always went outside the lines and couldn't call
in one direction.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I wasn't much of a drawer. But what was your
first card? Don't it?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Okay, it's my first car. You want me to say
something really really cool here? It wasn't. It was a
citron Ax Debut one point. It was a one liter engine.
I bought it from you. I actually bought it from
you because I knew someone who is like it did.
It cost me ninety nine pounds a month, which was
actually quite good, and then upgraded to a Ford Cougar
(03:49):
V six five years later, which is a bit of
a shock to the system. I've driven a lot of Mercedes.
I've currently got an Alpha Romeo. To be honest, I've
gone through a fair few cars over the years. But yeah,
my first a black citron Ax Debut. I ran it
into the ground, but had a really good stereo and
that was important to have the tunes.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
That was all about that. My first car was a
dats In one twenty wife.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Oh wait, David, let me ask you this, what do
you think of this business of kids these days?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Only learning how to drive on automatics.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
To be honest, I can, I can see the sensibilities
in that one. Yeah, but kids, you can't. You've got
to go through the full you know, crunch crunch get it,
yeah yeah, feel the full acceleration, fill the force out there.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Make the clutch. Then you really driving instead of my
I think my pop's in it one stage. Put your
foot in your pocket when you're not driving, and we're going.
I want to actually drive. Last driving crafty, last time
I saw a photo of you, mate, and I'm a docer.
You will add a derby in Perth with with an
Eagles jumper on may need to bring this out? What
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was going on there?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I picked? I picked a rong date the way that
Jersey didn't I To be honest, I'm seriously that that
was quite embarrassing for the Eagles. I hope they've got
better and ever since. Just to prove though that I
picked bad teams. I've still got my west Ham top
on from earlier today because I was watching my team
play against Spurs and I kind of know how all
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the true die hard Eagles fans were feeling that day
because we were lucky to get nil. This afternoon.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Bad day of this, We'll have to get you some
meths merchandise you can wear that.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I mean, seriously, I feel like Dion tonight. There is
no hope in my life whatsoever.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
How did you get into commentating?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
If I was to say it was at a bar
in Vegas, you probably wouldn't be surprised, but it was.
I was there with a friend of mine. Well, I
was working for the BBC and I've done quite a
bit of commentary football and various other sports. Darts it
was my other sports at the time. Yeah, it's all
aero dynamics with me. It's either you know, flights of
fancy or it's winglets and the like. But I was
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in a bar at two o'clock in the morning with
a friend of mine who happened to be the producer
for BBC Radio Formula one, and he said you should
be an F one commentator, which I replied, yeah, right,
come on, and he said no, no, seriously, you love
the sport. You know a bit about the sport. We
need a new commentator. Come an audition and have a go.
So I did, thinking I'll never get this, They'll pick
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somebody else and lo and beholding. They chose me, which
was cool, but then I realized I needed to know
an awful lot more than I did. So I spent
two thousand and six. I spent every single day swatting up,
watching as many old races as I possibly could, trying
to learn as much as I could. Started in bar
Rain March two thousand and six. I've done about three
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hundred and twenty five races since. I've missed one where
my son was born, when Daniel was born, and I'm
still living the dream today. So that's how it started,
a bar in Vegas. I promise you it's a true story,
going back to Vegas exactly, going it seems right?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah, yeah, so you did a crash course, No, we
don't call it that.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
We form no crash.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
But you like you like speed, but you don't like
you like me. You don't like heights, right.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I'm not great on heights, I must admit. I mean,
I don't mind flying. I like flying, but I'm not
good with walking on wobbley bridges that are high.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Climbing, yeah, ladders and all that sort of thing, really
really bad. I went to New York about twelve months ago.
My other half, my gorgeous. Other half said, I want
to go on to the edge. One hundred and one
floors up and it just tapers into a point, and
you stand at the point you lean on the glass.
I got about meters from the edge and couldn't go
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any closer.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yeah, I'm with you at least. I laughed at me
because my wife has not forgiven me for not going
up the Eiffel Tower on her honeymoon. I'm still paying
for that one.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
What so she went up with the Eiffel Tower, say.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Refuse to go up with I just couldn't do it
that day. You know, you when you have a bad height,
So we had to beg it down the bottom.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
I can go, I can't come down. I can go
up on that.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
You know when you've got to throw the leg over
and get back onto the ladder to come down from
the building.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I come up.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I'm up.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
There forever get me a cherry pickup.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I'm learning so much about you this.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Well, let's talk about the show.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
There's only a half of tickets, by the way left
for the shows in April.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
How does this work? What can we expect?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I have no idea whatsoever. I like to surprise people. Basically,
the concept behind the show is I like talking about
Formula one, and I've realized there's a lot of people
in Perth love talking about Formula one as well. I
love coming to Perth and I love coming to Western
Australia and Big Tony and I and Karun are going
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to go down to Margaret River and do a bit
of wine tasting while we're there. Big Tony is a
guy that I met in Perth last year and we've
become firm friends ever since. And what we do is
we basically come on stage and say hi, and then
we talk Formula one, but not about the stuff we
want to talk about necessarily, it's stuff about the audience
want to talk about. We have lots of polls and
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interaction with the fans that are there, and the fans
get their voice too, and we want to hear what
the fans have to say, and we want to hear
their opinion, and you know, we'll try and debunk a
few myths. We've talked a lot about Abid Daddy twenty
twenty one last year, and I think we'll probably still
talk about that because people still want to and we'll
get some people up the stage to have a go
at commentary, which is a real laugh because for ten
(09:32):
seconds they're brilliant and then they run out of breath
or things to say, or both, and then it becomes
quite hilarious. We're going to test Karoon's encyclopedic knowledge of
formula one. We do some giveaways and have some fun
and enjoy the sport that we all love. And it
is all about fun. And I'm not sure what else
you do in Perth on a Monday and Tuesday night.
Not a lot.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Idea.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah, I mean we might well be talking I'll be
on the series ten by that and we might well
be talking about that quite a lot. But you know,
I stayed in I stayed in Fremantle last year and
I realized that after nine o'clock at night everything is
shut in Freemantle. So we basically we carry on to
about half past ten just to keep things open and
be the only thing that's going in Western Australia.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
A Monday night's for giving you the look last year's gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I couldn't believe it. Old school last year. So I'm
in Freemantle, it's Sunday night and at West Hammer playing
I think we're playing Everton and so I thought, you
know what, right, I'm going to go and see the match.
So I walked into this sports bar. I said, you're
showing the match the English Premier League. You went yet, mate,
I went, brilliant, So can I watch it on the
big screen? Yep, I went, that's fantastic, said yeah, but
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we shut at ten. The match match doesn't finish until eleven. Yeah,
that's right. Can I watch the whole match? He went, mate,
Now we shot at ten, but if you can open,
I can watch the whole thing. Now. Now we can't
do that, try to bar up the road. So I
went to the bar up the road and they had
someone playing acoustic guitar and I said, you're showing the
(11:10):
English Premier Yeah, yeah, normally we do, I said, right,
said yeah, but it's the it's the Derby today. I went, yeah,
the Dockers and the Eagles. The Dockers won. Yeah, but
we're showing We're showing like the after show. I went,
not as a guy playing acoustic guitar, and you've got
the TV is on mute and I watched the match.
Now it makes the Derby match well in the end,
and this is the challenge of my life. I had
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to sit in my room, my hotel room, FaceTime my
beautiful other half. I would put a step ladder in
front of the telly with the match on so I
could watch it the only way I could see it.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Right, That's great?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Sorry, true love.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
And you know what that's worth? An engagement at Christmas?
I reckon, congratulations and she got it.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Now I have I have a question, Danny Riccardo.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Daniel Riccardo, Is that a question.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Daniel Riccardo? Where to now for Daniel?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Where to now for Daniel? Oh? That sounded like an
episode of Gaviner State. Very good. I think. I think
this is one of the most fascinating subplots of the
twenty twenty three seasons. You know, Daniel's gone back to
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Red Bull because, look, he needed to go somewhere. If
he wanted to carry on his Formula One career. We
could have gone to has I think they were interested,
but for whatever reason, Daniel wasn't. He's accepted the job
as reserve driver to go back and to be within
a team that he knows will give him a car
that can win races if he gets a drive full
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time drive once again with them, But sitting there at
the moment is Sergio Perez, who may or may not
have the best relationship with Max. Was happen you've ever seen?
So this is a bit how can I put this,
It's it's not quite married at first sight Australian material
where Daniel is sat in the wings waiting to pick
up the girl who doesn't want to be with deal exactly.
(13:14):
But Daniel sat in the wings here and he is
in the right place at the right time. If Red
Bull wants to make a change for the future, yeah,
and it's all I think it's to what Max wants.
You know, Max's The team is not built around Max,
but Max's is their number one, two times champion, is
the defending champion. If he feels it's better to go
forward with Daniel, then I can see it happening. Because
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if former one never ever say never. Once upon a
time we have never thought Daniel Ricardo could go back
to drive for Red Bull again. But time is a
great healer and things move on a pace. And wouldn't
it be lovely to see Daniel Ricardo back in a
winning machione.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yes, yes, better than just being the brand ambssador, which
I think he is at the moment the banana.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yeah, exactly. He's a reserve driver. He's a brand new
ambassador and that's an important job. Redbe'll have a lot
of partners that need servicing in terms of somebody come along,
talk to the guests at the race weekend, spend time
with him and give an insight into Formula One. So
he has an important job to play in the sin.
He has an important job to play to help prepare
the car. But that relationship Daniel Max Sergio, you know,
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three into two, don't go. How's that gonna blossom or not?
During the course of this season. Carud already thinks Daniel
Riccardo will be in that seat for next year. We're
talking about it on Friday when we met. So yeah,
I'm not sure, but it wouldn't surprise me if it happed.
That's given you some food for.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Thought, is yeah, well we're thinking about a boy from
done Craig. He's the Perth boy with there you go.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
But what I would say is Formula One with a
Daniel Riccardo in a machine that he gets on, yeah
you can drive well in is a much better sport
than Formula One without Daniel Ricardo. I honestly, he is
a delight to watch on the track. He's a delight
to know off the track as well, and he has
produced some amazing races over the years and has more
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in him to come if he's given the chance.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
I wanted to ask you about commentary boxes. You've seen
them all. Who's the best, Who's got the worst?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Okay, So the worst was the time in Monza when
we used to be in a porter cabin in the
stand and had a hole in the corner of the
roof and it rained the year Sebastian feedal one in
two thousand and eight. It rained and it rained and
it rained, and it was so bad on the Friday
they canceled the sessions. It was too wet. But the
rain was cascading through the hole in the roof and
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was forming like about that much of a puddle on
the floor, which is where all our equipment was placed,
and we were in danger of going live. Whilst we
were live, I actually pulled the plug in the end,
so let's get out of it. This is actually dangerous. Yeah,
And that was, without doubt the worst, although the ones
in Canada used to be pretty bad. In a condemned
three story building by the Chicage. Oh man, it was
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a horrible building. It was a great view, but the
building wasn't good and we used to used to use
these porterloos that have been there all weekends as well.
The Canadian sunshine can get quite hot and you know,
by the time you get to ten minutes before racetime
on a Sunday where you go for your final Wii
before your commentary, I didn't want to be using water loos.
It was honestly, it was like Download festival. It was
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not particularly pleasant, gross, but the best the best commentary
boxes bah Rains, Good Abby, Daddy's Good China was mega
because you could see the whole the whole track. I
have to say I do love the commentary boxes in
Albert Park because they're a bit of a walk from
the paddock, so you basically whilst you're walking, you're talking
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to all the Aussie fans and the conversations get more
and more delightful as the weekend goes on and more
tinnies have been consumed quite frankly and towing over people
on the way back. It is the best festival of
motorsport that Australia could ever produce the growing pre weekend.
It's a sellout. I think again, it's going to be
mega and Albert Park.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
I was actually at that first race at Albert Park
way back then in the nineteen and I have and
also I live a few suburbs away and I could
still hear the qualifying races the days before.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
It was so such a vibe, it really was.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
There's two seats Formula one car that goes on the track. Yeah,
and our hotel's right next to the track and it
starts at half seven in the morning. Please come on
given hour.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Yeah, even the noise came on. Headphones don't work vibrating,
that's right, the whole room.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I guess we do have to let you go.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
But these are the kind of stories that you can
expect to hear in April when you take the stage.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
We look forward to that, David.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
List loads of stories. We'll give you all the gossip
from Albert Park as well, and will be three races
into Oscar Piastre's Formula one career. Yes, by that stage,
I confidently predict him scored his first points in Formula
A young.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Yeah, such a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Thanks for having me on the show. Good to chat more.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Thank you David,
Formula one fans will be very excited because Crafty is
on his way to town. We speak of David Croft,
the man you want behind the microphone if your team
of your car is at the front of the pack
at the end of a Formula one race, David Croft
is joining. Guess he'll be joined by Karen chad Hot
in Perth on twenty twenty three. We're speaking of April
three and four at All Saints College in Ball Creek.
Tickets from Tribe Booking dot com. Crafty, Good morning, mate, welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good morning. How are you? What a very silly time
to be awake, but it's great to be with you.
How's it go?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
It's silly here, silly o'clock. What time is it where
you are?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
It's nine o'clock on a Sunday night. Oh god, you've
just disturbed my pre season viewing. I'm on season nine,
episode twenty. Have married at first Site Australia.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
You're all worry. He's a man.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
If you thought you're mad some napties on that one.
Why do you say the next season?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
My god, my friend, my friend said to me, if
you do nothing else over the course of the winter,
you've got to get into Married at First Sight Australia.
I hate my friend at this moment. It's unmissible, it
really is.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
It is unmissable.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
We all hate ourselves for watching it, but please try
to put it out of your mind before you come
and arrive on our stage here.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I'm worried about Mitchanella forty eight hours ago. I'm worried
about I'm worried about dom Can she keep her mouth
shut for a whole episode? I think that's impossible. I'm
worried about Olivia and Jackson because it's just too good
to be true? What's happening with Dion? Can those teeth
get any whiter?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Spoiler alert? Don can't keep her mouth shut?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Now?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
When did you first fall in love with fast cars?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
See what you've done there, Married at First Night Australia
and falling in love? There's not much of that going on.
And when did I fall in love with fast cars?
I've always loved fast cars, and it's impossible not to
love at fast cars. It's one of those things is
even as a kid, one of the things you learned
to pronounce is now, and you just get excited at
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watching fast cars. I remember once when my son, my
oldest son, Daniel, was about four, and he walked into
the commentary box and Murray Walker was there, and Murray
and Daniel started a conversation. It was an eighty year
old man the four year old boy, and I couldn't
work out who was more in love with fast cars
at the time. It spans the ages, this thing. And
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he's got my healthy obsession with fast cars and he
could talk about them all day as well. I always have,
ever since a kid. And the fact that I get
to watch fast cars and talk about them and do
it for a job. I mean, seriously, this is Willy
Wonka material. I've taken the keys to the candy shop
and I've never let them go.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Were you like me? I was at Greenwood High School
in Berth as a teenager with my mates, and we
would come and show our drawings of the Lamborghini contagents.
We were real can hoods. Were you like that as well?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Love? Well, seriously, I struggled to draw an apple and
a banana, let alone a Lamborghili. To be fair, my
artistic skills were not that good. But I learned to
talk about things and that that's helped me along the years.
That that's good at least what about you? What were
you drawing at whatever high school you went to?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Nothing?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Really, I always went outside the lines and couldn't call
in one direction.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I wasn't much of a drawer. But what was your
first card? Don't it?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Okay, it's my first car. You want me to say
something really really cool here? It wasn't. It was a
citron Ax Debut one point. It was a one liter engine.
I bought it from you. I actually bought it from
you because I knew someone who is like it did.
It cost me ninety nine pounds a month, which was
actually quite good, and then upgraded to a Ford Cougar
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V six five years later, which is a bit of
a shock to the system. I've driven a lot of Mercedes.
I've currently got an Alpha Romeo. To be honest, I've
gone through a fair few cars over the years. But yeah,
my first a black citron Ax Debut. I ran it
into the ground, but had a really good stereo and
that was important to have the tunes.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
That was all about that. My first car was a
dats In one twenty wife.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Oh wait, David, let me ask you this, what do
you think of this business of kids these days?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Only learning how to drive on automatics.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
To be honest, I can, I can see the sensibilities
in that one. Yeah, but kids, you can't. You've got
to go through the full you know, crunch crunch get it,
yeah yeah, feel the full acceleration, fill the force out there.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Make the clutch. Then you really driving instead of my
I think my pop's in it one stage. Put your
foot in your pocket when you're not driving, and we're going.
I want to actually drive. Last driving crafty, last time
I saw a photo of you, mate, and I'm a docer.
You will add a derby in Perth with with an
Eagles jumper on may need to bring this out? What
(04:56):
was going on there?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I picked? I picked a rong date the way that
Jersey didn't I To be honest, I'm seriously that that
was quite embarrassing for the Eagles. I hope they've got
better and ever since. Just to prove though that I
picked bad teams. I've still got my west Ham top
on from earlier today because I was watching my team
play against Spurs and I kind of know how all
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the true die hard Eagles fans were feeling that day
because we were lucky to get nil. This afternoon.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Bad day of this, We'll have to get you some
meths merchandise you can wear that.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I mean, seriously, I feel like Dion tonight. There is
no hope in my life whatsoever.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
How did you get into commentating?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
If I was to say it was at a bar
in Vegas, you probably wouldn't be surprised, but it was.
I was there with a friend of mine. Well, I
was working for the BBC and I've done quite a
bit of commentary football and various other sports. Darts it
was my other sports at the time. Yeah, it's all
aero dynamics with me. It's either you know, flights of
fancy or it's winglets and the like. But I was
(06:01):
in a bar at two o'clock in the morning with
a friend of mine who happened to be the producer
for BBC Radio Formula one, and he said you should
be an F one commentator, which I replied, yeah, right,
come on, and he said no, no, seriously, you love
the sport. You know a bit about the sport. We
need a new commentator. Come an audition and have a go.
So I did, thinking I'll never get this, They'll pick
(06:23):
somebody else and lo and beholding. They chose me, which
was cool, but then I realized I needed to know
an awful lot more than I did. So I spent
two thousand and six. I spent every single day swatting up,
watching as many old races as I possibly could, trying
to learn as much as I could. Started in bar
Rain March two thousand and six. I've done about three
(06:45):
hundred and twenty five races since. I've missed one where
my son was born, when Daniel was born, and I'm
still living the dream today. So that's how it started,
a bar in Vegas. I promise you it's a true story,
going back to Vegas exactly, going it seems right?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah, yeah, so you did a crash course, No, we
don't call it that.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
We form no crash.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
But you like you like speed, but you don't like
you like me. You don't like heights, right.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I'm not great on heights, I must admit. I mean,
I don't mind flying. I like flying, but I'm not
good with walking on wobbley bridges that are high.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Climbing, yeah, ladders and all that sort of thing, really
really bad. I went to New York about twelve months ago.
My other half, my gorgeous. Other half said, I want
to go on to the edge. One hundred and one
floors up and it just tapers into a point, and
you stand at the point you lean on the glass.
I got about meters from the edge and couldn't go
(07:41):
any closer.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yeah, I'm with you at least. I laughed at me
because my wife has not forgiven me for not going
up the Eiffel Tower on her honeymoon. I'm still paying
for that one.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
What so she went up with the Eiffel Tower, say.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Refuse to go up with I just couldn't do it
that day. You know, you when you have a bad height,
So we had to beg it down the bottom.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
I can go, I can't come down. I can go
up on that.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
You know when you've got to throw the leg over
and get back onto the ladder to come down from
the building.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I come up.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I'm up.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
There forever get me a cherry pickup.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I'm learning so much about you this.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Well, let's talk about the show.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
There's only a half of tickets, by the way left
for the shows in April.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
How does this work? What can we expect?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I have no idea whatsoever. I like to surprise people. Basically,
the concept behind the show is I like talking about
Formula one, and I've realized there's a lot of people
in Perth love talking about Formula one as well. I
love coming to Perth and I love coming to Western
Australia and Big Tony and I and Karun are going
(08:47):
to go down to Margaret River and do a bit
of wine tasting while we're there. Big Tony is a
guy that I met in Perth last year and we've
become firm friends ever since. And what we do is
we basically come on stage and say hi, and then
we talk Formula one, but not about the stuff we
want to talk about necessarily, it's stuff about the audience
want to talk about. We have lots of polls and
(09:10):
interaction with the fans that are there, and the fans
get their voice too, and we want to hear what
the fans have to say, and we want to hear
their opinion, and you know, we'll try and debunk a
few myths. We've talked a lot about Abid Daddy twenty
twenty one last year, and I think we'll probably still
talk about that because people still want to and we'll
get some people up the stage to have a go
at commentary, which is a real laugh because for ten
(09:32):
seconds they're brilliant and then they run out of breath
or things to say, or both, and then it becomes
quite hilarious. We're going to test Karoon's encyclopedic knowledge of
formula one. We do some giveaways and have some fun
and enjoy the sport that we all love. And it
is all about fun. And I'm not sure what else
you do in Perth on a Monday and Tuesday night.
Not a lot.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Idea.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah, I mean we might well be talking I'll be
on the series ten by that and we might well
be talking about that quite a lot. But you know,
I stayed in I stayed in Fremantle last year and
I realized that after nine o'clock at night everything is
shut in Freemantle. So we basically we carry on to
about half past ten just to keep things open and
be the only thing that's going in Western Australia.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
A Monday night's for giving you the look last year's gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I couldn't believe it. Old school last year. So I'm
in Freemantle, it's Sunday night and at West Hammer playing
I think we're playing Everton and so I thought, you
know what, right, I'm going to go and see the match.
So I walked into this sports bar. I said, you're
showing the match the English Premier League. You went yet, mate,
I went, brilliant, So can I watch it on the
big screen? Yep, I went, that's fantastic, said yeah, but
(10:48):
we shut at ten. The match match doesn't finish until eleven. Yeah,
that's right. Can I watch the whole match? He went, mate,
Now we shot at ten, but if you can open,
I can watch the whole thing. Now. Now we can't
do that, try to bar up the road. So I
went to the bar up the road and they had
someone playing acoustic guitar and I said, you're showing the
(11:10):
English Premier Yeah, yeah, normally we do, I said, right,
said yeah, but it's the it's the Derby today. I went, yeah,
the Dockers and the Eagles. The Dockers won. Yeah, but
we're showing We're showing like the after show. I went,
not as a guy playing acoustic guitar, and you've got
the TV is on mute and I watched the match.
Now it makes the Derby match well in the end,
and this is the challenge of my life. I had
(11:32):
to sit in my room, my hotel room, FaceTime my
beautiful other half. I would put a step ladder in
front of the telly with the match on so I
could watch it the only way I could see it.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Right, That's great?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Sorry, true love.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
And you know what that's worth? An engagement at Christmas?
I reckon, congratulations and she got it.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Now I have I have a question, Danny Riccardo.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Daniel Riccardo, Is that a question.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Daniel Riccardo? Where to now for Daniel?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Where to now for Daniel? Oh? That sounded like an
episode of Gaviner State. Very good. I think. I think
this is one of the most fascinating subplots of the
twenty twenty three seasons. You know, Daniel's gone back to
(12:29):
Red Bull because, look, he needed to go somewhere. If
he wanted to carry on his Formula One career. We
could have gone to has I think they were interested,
but for whatever reason, Daniel wasn't. He's accepted the job
as reserve driver to go back and to be within
a team that he knows will give him a car
that can win races if he gets a drive full
(12:52):
time drive once again with them, But sitting there at
the moment is Sergio Perez, who may or may not
have the best relationship with Max. Was happen you've ever seen?
So this is a bit how can I put this,
It's it's not quite married at first sight Australian material
where Daniel is sat in the wings waiting to pick
up the girl who doesn't want to be with deal exactly.
(13:14):
But Daniel sat in the wings here and he is
in the right place at the right time. If Red
Bull wants to make a change for the future, yeah,
and it's all I think it's to what Max wants.
You know, Max's The team is not built around Max,
but Max's is their number one, two times champion, is
the defending champion. If he feels it's better to go
forward with Daniel, then I can see it happening. Because
(13:37):
if former one never ever say never. Once upon a
time we have never thought Daniel Ricardo could go back
to drive for Red Bull again. But time is a
great healer and things move on a pace. And wouldn't
it be lovely to see Daniel Ricardo back in a
winning machione.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yes, yes, better than just being the brand ambssador, which
I think he is at the moment the banana.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yeah, exactly. He's a reserve driver. He's a brand new
ambassador and that's an important job. Redbe'll have a lot
of partners that need servicing in terms of somebody come along,
talk to the guests at the race weekend, spend time
with him and give an insight into Formula One. So
he has an important job to play in the sin.
He has an important job to play to help prepare
the car. But that relationship Daniel Max Sergio, you know,
(14:22):
three into two, don't go. How's that gonna blossom or not?
During the course of this season. Carud already thinks Daniel
Riccardo will be in that seat for next year. We're
talking about it on Friday when we met. So yeah,
I'm not sure, but it wouldn't surprise me if it happed.
That's given you some food for.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Thought, is yeah, well we're thinking about a boy from
done Craig. He's the Perth boy with there you go.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
But what I would say is Formula One with a
Daniel Riccardo in a machine that he gets on, yeah
you can drive well in is a much better sport
than Formula One without Daniel Ricardo. I honestly, he is
a delight to watch on the track. He's a delight
to know off the track as well, and he has
produced some amazing races over the years and has more
(15:07):
in him to come if he's given the chance.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
I wanted to ask you about commentary boxes. You've seen
them all. Who's the best, Who's got the worst?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Okay, So the worst was the time in Monza when
we used to be in a porter cabin in the
stand and had a hole in the corner of the
roof and it rained the year Sebastian feedal one in
two thousand and eight. It rained and it rained and
it rained, and it was so bad on the Friday
they canceled the sessions. It was too wet. But the
rain was cascading through the hole in the roof and
(15:36):
was forming like about that much of a puddle on
the floor, which is where all our equipment was placed,
and we were in danger of going live. Whilst we
were live, I actually pulled the plug in the end,
so let's get out of it. This is actually dangerous. Yeah,
And that was, without doubt the worst, although the ones
in Canada used to be pretty bad. In a condemned
three story building by the Chicage. Oh man, it was
(15:59):
a horrible building. It was a great view, but the
building wasn't good and we used to used to use
these porterloos that have been there all weekends as well.
The Canadian sunshine can get quite hot and you know,
by the time you get to ten minutes before racetime
on a Sunday where you go for your final Wii
before your commentary, I didn't want to be using water loos.
It was honestly, it was like Download festival. It was
(16:20):
not particularly pleasant, gross, but the best the best commentary
boxes bah Rains, Good Abby, Daddy's Good China was mega
because you could see the whole the whole track. I
have to say I do love the commentary boxes in
Albert Park because they're a bit of a walk from
the paddock, so you basically whilst you're walking, you're talking
(16:42):
to all the Aussie fans and the conversations get more
and more delightful as the weekend goes on and more
tinnies have been consumed quite frankly and towing over people
on the way back. It is the best festival of
motorsport that Australia could ever produce the growing pre weekend.
It's a sellout. I think again, it's going to be
mega and Albert Park.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
I was actually at that first race at Albert Park
way back then in the nineteen and I have and
also I live a few suburbs away and I could
still hear the qualifying races the days before.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
It was so such a vibe, it really was.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
There's two seats Formula one car that goes on the track. Yeah,
and our hotel's right next to the track and it
starts at half seven in the morning. Please come on
given hour.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Yeah, even the noise came on. Headphones don't work vibrating,
that's right, the whole room.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I guess we do have to let you go.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
But these are the kind of stories that you can
expect to hear in April when you take the stage.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
We look forward to that, David.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
List loads of stories. We'll give you all the gossip
from Albert Park as well, and will be three races
into Oscar Piastre's Formula one career. Yes, by that stage,
I confidently predict him scored his first points in Formula
A young.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Yeah, such a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Thanks for having me on the show. Good to chat more.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Thank you David,
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