Alex Jacques

But these are the junior ladders.

These are the rungs on the ladder before we get to the top of Formula One.

F2 is like the college football if you like or college basketball stage of the sport.

The great advantage of that was that I met a lot of the drivers when they were in their really young formative years.

I always liken it to seeing a band that goes on to be big in a pub.

But yeah, as a result, I got a lot of races in.

These championships tend to have multiple races a weekend.

Formula One just has the Grand Prix, the main event.

And as a result of that, I got lots of reps in, built a reputation and relationships with the people who put on the main show.

And eventually I got a tap on the shoulder and they said, do you want to have a go on Formula One?

It's an interesting one.

Formula One used to be run really by one man.

It was one group and it was a sporting body, but realistically a chap called Bernie Eccleston called the shots.

And he had a very key ethos that he would keep all the Formula One footage under lock and key.

I'll give you a great example of this because it makes no sense in the era that we're now in.

But the biggest chat show in the UK is the Graham Norton Show.

So whenever you'd have a British driver on the Graham Norton Show, any other sports person would have a clip to share.

Bernie Eccleston would charge an enormous amount of money for said clip.

So you can even show it to promote an appearance on a chat show.

It shows you how underlocking key it was.