Nelson Valkenburg

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967 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 16 Sep

Nelson Valkenburg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Race F1 Podcast · The secrets of F1 race commentary - and the unique challenge of calling a race in 2026 · 27 Apr 2026 podcast

I hope it's like this this year.

Some songs that I've written, I started on the piano.

That happened with All I Want for Christmas is You.

Well, don't forget that when I came in in 2022, I took over from Olaf Moll, who had done this for close to three decades, basically, and people were very used to his style and my style.

together with melroy is quite different and was seen as a little bit colder analytical maybe devoid of emotion and i had to work at that and it's no shame in that because i suddenly was doing a sport i've done le mans dakar indie cars nascar i've done it

all of those, but this is next level.

And the weird thing with Formula One, it's so compressed.

There's so much information to digest and to bring to your audience, so much more than, for instance, in an endurance race in such a small period of time.

So we really had to work on our cadence, our pacing, because suddenly the Dutch viewers not only had

two commentators and two different commentators instead of one.

But we also work with a race control where Allard Kalf, one of our colleagues, F2 commentator, can interrupt us with what he's heard from onboard radios, what he saw when he viewed a replay of a crash.

So I'll get in my ear Allard's ready and then

So there's another voice for the people at home.

So we really had to work hard to get that balancing act right and not fill the airwaves with unnecessary words, basically, and to find your peaks because...

I found it personally quite difficult to unlock and show that emotion as much as I do now.

And it's very weird because once you start doing it, and it's all self-confidence, right?

It's all confidence.

So once you start doing it, and I know exactly the moment when I had that moment that I thought, ah, okay.

This works for me.

And it was the Battle Perez Alonso in Brazil.

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