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

And I went through the roof.

And you know that feeling, Alex, that you think, oh, this is too much.

And then you watch it back and they thought, oh, it was exactly, I could have gone further.

And finding that balance and noticing, even though you're not mentally constantly working at it, but even if I look at two years ago compared to now, you are constantly evolving in your commentary.

Yeah.

So yeah, that is a style that I've now found my own.

It is a little more rash than I used to be and a little bit more emotional, but it works for me right now really well.

And with the Verstappen of it all, I think last year, was it Kim Illman who did the counting of how many times you name each driver in a broadcast?

They did it to Sky UK, Sky Italy, and to us.

And I was really curious because I know a Dutchman did it for Kim Ilman, a photographer in the paddock.

And I was really curious, how biased are we?

But he came in fifth.

So that's pretty good.

When we do NLS, it's probably a little bit more skewed.

But yeah, it's all those things that you're conscious of in the back of your mind and you have to let go once the start is there.

Yeah, I started my commentary in 2009 for Eurosport.

And what I did is I did a lot of different sports.

So always motorsport was my main gig coming where I came from.

But then I did swimming, speed skating, other sports.

And that gave me a very well-rounded way of doing commentary.

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