Eleanor Oldroyd

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123 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 6d ago

Eleanor Oldroyd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Test Match Special · Root's 99 not out helps England beat India to level ODI series · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

Did you get the chance to play?

Because you started in motorsport when you were ridiculously young.

I've seen video of you when you were in Mumbai quite recently, I think.

Going out onto the Maidan and having a hit.

Just describe how that came about.

For people who've never been to Mumbai and not had that experience, I mean, what is that like to walk onto this extraordinary scene where everybody has a cricket bat or wants to be Virat Kohli or Jasprit Bumrah?

Can you imagine that level of fame being an Indian cricketer?

I mean, as a young man who is half Indian now and you see that passionate support of that particular sport.

Is there anything like that in F1?

So you could maybe, I mean, maybe I was thinking if, you know, if your mum or your grandparents had put a cricket bat in your hand when you were three years old, you know, you could have been maybe discovering a talent for cricket.

But in fact, what they did was they put you on a motocross bike when you were three years old.

Was she worried about you?

And karting is the way that you start in four-wheel racing, isn't it, really?

And it's where Lewis Hamilton started.

It's where all the drivers pretty much have started.

When did you realise that you were quite good at this?

program i think at 14 you joined that didn't you um and you first drove an f1 car in 2024 when you were 16 yes were you were you actually old enough to have a driving license with on a road car at that stage uh no i wasn't able to have a road car a license um

It's quite difficult to book a driving test at the moment, we should say that.

That's your excuse.

That feeling of sitting for the first time in that big car and knowing you've got this power.

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