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00:00welcome to the 14th episode of the lobster fight guys welcome back how are we we good Sean are we
00:08good absolutely fantastic yeah yeah why because today is a very special day it is it is right
00:13we're having another guest on the podcast and we're very happy to have him here with us today
00:19we are having a lovely chat with Nick Cassidy and I don't want him to present himself because
00:28we did that sort of with with Andrea and we thought it wasn't too nice for him so I will
00:33happily introduce you mate so I've written down a few things about Nick here and to the the people
00:39out there that don't know him maybe you'll get to know him through this episode that's at least what
00:43we would like to try and achieve Nick's a 20 year old very smiling guy out of New Zealand so he's a
00:51Kiwi for the ones that don't know and born and raised in Auckland if I'm not mistaken and
00:57Nick's a racing driver Nick is absolute racing driver and I've written down a few of the
01:04achievements that come to mind Japanese Formula 3 champion Super GT 500 champion with Ryu Rikawa
01:12and Super Formula champion as well three championships all as well in in Japan if I'm not mistaken
01:20karting since the age of very young I don't know exactly maybe Nick can get into telling us that later
01:26and currently racing in Formula E championships and it's the third season for Nick and he's overall
01:34number three in the championship currently pretty cool sitting here with one of the contestants for
01:39the championship racing for Envision racing Formula E team and Nick I'm gonna allow you the microphone
01:45now cheers boys thanks for thanks for having me on first of all thank you for coming on so I was nervous
01:52there listening to Fred introduce me I'm like oh no what can go wrong right that was pretty good
01:58thank you for that mate yeah you're welcome I've done better than I could have done myself yeah but
02:02you've done it you know you've done that so guys today we're gonna have a chat about raising about live
02:11we all obviously live around the same place here in Monaco but we come from very various different
02:16places and uh but let's let's start and get get to know you a little bit I think Sean has a few uh
02:22let's say initial questions I've got a few quick fire questions so loosen us up the first thing that
02:27comes to mind just shoot it out all right it's cool all right guys just to be to be fair all I've said
02:34basically on this podcast so far is hello everyone's wondering who the hell is this go ahead now we're
02:39gonna have me firing out random answers and they're gonna be like what's this dude up to
02:45all right let's go all right all right Nick do you prefer overtaking or defending ah overtaking
02:51overtaking all right do you prefer a wet or a dry track dry fair enough do you prefer home races
03:00or international races um do you prefer street circuits or traditional tracks street do you prefer
03:10day races or night races night what's who's your toughest competitor
03:15whoa pass pass fair enough what is the best racing advice you've received
03:26well it's very very simple first that comes to mind is don't give up everyone says it but
03:34mate it's key easier said than done isn't it
03:37right then is it all team strategy or do you use your own instinct instinct that's nice
03:46not if you ask the team no no no like that that's cool because that's the first thing that comes to
03:53mind obviously is like it's instinct racing and i think it's cool i i was i was wondering what's
03:59your favorite racetrack um you said street circuits i don't want to yeah macao macao yeah very very
04:05cool street circuit yeah i think that's that's pretty cool i like these questions they're easy guys
04:11there's no i mean we are the most listened to podcast in monaco so don't get shy but you know
04:23you can answer everything that you want i wanted to know golf or skydiving
04:27oh that's a tough one mate i really want to go skydiving i'm going to say skydiving because i
04:32haven't done it i would love to but i am into my golf currently cool very cool music or no music for
04:39preparation uh music cool yeah uh brightest memory of your racing career um wow would be the
04:52super formula title cool 2019 very very cool what is the weirdest thing you've heard on the radio
05:00on the radio like on the radio like the team radio team radio um
05:07well i've had some pretty weird conversations with my engineer this year um what's an example for
05:14that have you guys there they used to be an ad in germany about teaching english and um
05:21um i forget exactly how it goes but it's a german coast guard oh yeah have you seen that one yeah
05:31yeah yeah yeah yeah so so i've had my engineer basically repeat this ad to me while i'm on an
05:37out lap and i just had no idea what he's talking about like we'd forgotten about it two days later
05:43he sent me this youtube link and i watched it i was i was in hysterics i was laughing so much but
05:48yeah we come up with some weird shit it's quite cool amazing that's the funny part that's the
05:54funny part when you just you're there you're in your race car imagine and then you just start
05:58hearing these voices and be like all right mate we're on the outlet here let's get ready but
06:02let's have it yeah i try i try like i try to keep it i try to keep it fun and relaxed and it probably
06:08doesn't work for everyone and it doesn't even the guys you work with so just to give a little bit of
06:14background informally we we're allowed 22 people at the circuit um working on the cars in the
06:21garage and then we have an ops room which is a remote base so it's at our workshop with with all
06:28the telemetry all the screens following the session and we're limited to six people there okay so
06:33essentially within my team i'm speaking to 28 people right but that's that's okay it it's professional
06:42and it's it's pretty cool but then when you get me coming on the radio and saying hey guys have you
06:47seen the horse it's it's a bit weird i had no idea you could be that many on the radio that's a lot
06:54yeah just obviously just listening so it's me and my engineer and i and i'm lucky that he's he's a
06:59laid-back dude and and you know he can say stuff like no i haven't right where is it he said no i
07:04haven't seen it either you know and we just you you can have a laugh it's cool this is what i meant
07:10when i presented nick you know smiling always funny good chat trying to be half as positive as you guys
07:15if i'm half as positive you guys you're pretty positive oh sure i mean we do come around a bit
07:20positive but like it's it's amazing it's a really good quality to have that's good that's good i think
07:26it helps also in a serious i imagine a serious career and stuff keeping it loose for some people
07:32it helps for others it's a stress like if everything is not strict in a certain way yeah everyone's
07:39different right you've all got your your little things that you like to do or the way you want to be
07:44um i'm certainly not perfect even to what suits me i'm not how i should be all of the time but
07:50that's part of sport so you gotta work yourself out and try to put yourself into the zone that
07:55suits you right so you're right you're right um i was wondering mate i've noticed that you always
08:03carry more or less the racing number 37 okay when you go racing okay have you done that always is
08:09there a specific story about 37 yeah so when i was um hey i hope this isn't too boring for you guys
08:16nothing boring but uh really simply when i was younger um my dad did a bit of racing and he was
08:23actually number 37 um my brother was 27 and and i was 87 so that was um as we grew up and then when i
08:33went to japan uh the two cars were 36 and 37 they naturally had me as 37 for my first year there and
08:41we won the championship so it was just something that stuck um it was quite cool that i linked back
08:47to my dad right and and uh yeah when i moved to formulary i decided to continue with that that's cool
08:54so you feel sort of a proudness of carrying the number or you're not really too just got like a
09:00little bit of meaning right so yeah it's cool i don't know if it's i just noticed it it got me
09:05it's interesting because racing numbers for some people i think are pretty religious stuff
09:14like if you can't have your racing number on your car for some certain reason maybe there's another
09:19driver who carries it or it's just what's your number number one well i was just without me i really
09:26do appreciate it i've used 98 98 yeah 98 exactly yeah and you got a reason behind that oh it's just my
09:35birth year mate very simple you know basic and boring but uh i i like this not this symmetry because
09:40it really isn't a symmetrical uh number but i just like the way it looks yeah sometimes it just
09:46you've gone for the sexy part correct exactly try it at least i'm happy that you found it the same
09:51way as well no i just you know observe
09:54did you always grow up like knowing that uh your way was sort of racing trying to make it a professional
10:03racing driver as you are today yeah i was always addicted by by cars motorsport former one especially
10:10um and then i think if if you can live your your passion for as long as possible you're pretty
10:19lucky right and i'm just kind of lucky that that day where it become time to get a real job hasn't
10:26hasn't come yet so that's uh yeah now if racing wasn't your full-time profession what do you think
10:34you'd be doing um i have weirdly a big passion for
10:40business and then marketing um so i think it involves some way in in marketing whether that's
10:50social media fashion um those kind of things yeah i'm getting more and more involved in that kind of
10:57stuff now just because it's become something that i really enjoy outside of outside of racing
11:01cool so it's like a passion actually but i think with motorsport you can actually sort of combine
11:08those two as motor racing is such a marketed sport now that you want the visibility of brands you want
11:14the visibility of partners and stuff so maybe there's a way for you to connect those two yeah i've thought
11:20about a lot um i've just gone through probably the stage where you know i've missed i why i shouldn't
11:27say this and i i feel it's a weird thing to kind of say because um i feel if if you're starting your
11:34career you can really create a brand around you and and go for certain something you can create a lot
11:41of um different ways to portray and show what you do in your career whereas i think now with where i'm at
11:48i'm uh enjoying what i'm doing i'm focusing a lot on the performance side not really on the marketing
11:54side just because i'm feeling that's working for me right now and then i'm more looking at how can i
11:58help others with that knowledge if that makes sense that's cool so it's actually uh that passion is also
12:05to help others not necessarily for your own benefit only yeah and i'm almost a bit superstitious where
12:11i find whenever i focus on those kind of things myself then then um for whatever reason and i never
12:19think it's linked to this but the results aren't as good and whatever i'm you know i'm pretending
12:26no one knows i'm there and i'm i'm focusing on on my gig and my job then i seem to go okay so
12:31i'm uh yeah i don't think that they're linked at all but i think it's just a little bit of a
12:37superstitious thing in the mind which i think we all have those superstitious uh feelings or thoughts so
12:44if you figure it out that for example it works for you now why not stick to it yeah continue for a
12:50why not stick to it until a bad race weekend and then we'll be all over it exactly and then you have
12:55the chance to just flick it 360 be like okay i'll come up with something yeah exactly i'll go drawing
13:01it before every race or something like totally off topic weird stuff um i was wondering how does a kiwi
13:09from auckland end up in monaco yeah yeah um man long long journey right i i first came to to europe
13:19when i was 16 17 um just trying to get any gig i could in in racing whether that was um at the time
13:28it was former in a euro cup i was trying to get a test racy uh there but at that stage of your career
13:34um it's it's a topic talked about a lot but you've got to bring money to the team right you've got to be
13:40able to pay to race um which is just part of the game but you gotta if you've already got a certain
13:48amount of funds you gotta work out well what's the most efficient way to do that and um it wasn't easy
13:54from from the background that i had but i kind of made it work got a gig here gig there and then i
13:59i had one or two good races that led me to japan i had a all of a sudden a contract with tuoda i was
14:06in a really good place um my career in japan from the start was was really nice and i was very fortunate
14:15to end up there um but after a while i i was living this this life in japan which i thought was
14:23amazing you know lifestyle wise instead of tokyo um had a pretty cool place racing was good we're
14:32winning but i'm like well how much longer can i keep doing this for without being bored um
14:38and i had the opportunity to to join for marie to move back to europe um i mean we've got a lot of
14:46mutual friends in monaco right which uh i think it's a pretty cool place for sport and for racing so
14:52it was an easy choice to to move to monaco and be part of that in combination with moving to
14:57and i was at that stage of my career where it was then or never like do i continue in japan for the
15:05next 10 years and become bored or do i challenge myself and try to do something new again and so
15:11there i am that's cool it's kind of getting out of your comfort zone was then the choice you then
15:17yeah it was before i got out of my comfort zone a lot in japan except no one knew you so you city
15:24was so big so many people it was in monaco you do that and you you're in the news the next morning
15:28right yeah that's true that's true that's but i think what i really respect about that and the
15:35move itself is that you were having it going pretty well for you there you know yeah life was perfect
15:40like you were really you were winning races you you know you were you were racing a lot you had a lot
15:45of time behind behind the wheel to then give up that go somewhere else and trying to make it in a
15:51in a championship which might seem quite vastly different from what you came for i have huge
15:57respect for that cheers man yeah it was actually i actually struggled with it the first i must say
16:02the 12 months that i was here um that because i think when i made the move was end of 2020 so it was
16:10you know middle of covid let's say life in in monaco and in europe still wasn't normal through 2021 it was
16:18pretty restricted so i wasn't experiencing what i thought that i'd signed up for plus racing wise was
16:26pretty different and and honestly i i didn't enjoy it the first 12 months i found it tough i was like
16:31have i done the right thing but i think you you settle into life a lot more your friend group gets
16:39bigger but more trustworthy you you know more or less what you want to be doing and and um yeah i must
16:47say over the last 12 months that's got way easier so it's been pretty cool i think for sean and i having
16:52moved actually here more or less at the same time oh you guys come same time yeah i moved here and uh
16:58like i moved here probably full time in 2020 as well okay so now it's like two and a half years
17:04three years and counting yep and sean used to be here for i mean i've been here for like six seven
17:09years but only in the summertime yeah right after that it was and then more or less as of then it was
17:15full time okay but like during covid like we didn't meet anyone we didn't mingle with anyone really
17:22besides ourselves yeah yeah then from then on like as of let's say yeah really let's say the last 12
17:2812 to 18 months i'd say is really were kind of everything opened up and you actually got to be
17:35able to do things again right yeah yeah was it it was it for me i had the same thoughts that you had
17:41because we were moving here to study at the time uh the university where you are usually very social
17:47where you usually have you know everything in your life is like new fresh whatever and you see
17:52yourself locked up in your apartment at 6 p.m because of uh you know you couldn't go outside your door
17:57it was a bit weird and finding friends in a place where everyone actually or many people are from so
18:04vastly different places that you you meet people and it's like it's a little bit of a funky situation
18:10yeah it's that awkward phase right a bit a bit i agree once you get through that and life's more
18:14open it becomes easier to yeah yeah because once then you've opened it up you have so many different
18:21people here as you say also in terms of for example athletes you hang around with i think we also hang
18:27around with a lot is that everyone have their own story they all come here for having a nice base
18:32and you you know you have your thing going you're racing sean has his thing going i have my thing going but
18:39we all have this time where we are in the home base sure sure having a great time all together
18:43yeah which makes it mega right and to have that that balance where you can you can have your career
18:49you can have your passion everything going on but still then be here and be amongst guys who are on a
18:55similar kind of wavelength and lifestyle is pretty cool do you already have kind of like a friend uh or
19:02like a group of guys before you moved here that you knew so i was like you came in it was
19:08completely yeah well basically so so mitch evans races for marie um and tom longquist he was racing
19:16for marie in in 2021 as well when i when i moved um we we grew up together since we're like six years
19:25old and we've been best friends since we're like six so it was then mad to be racing in the same
19:31championship against each other again and um living in the same place as well it was just
19:36you know did it bring back memories it's like a group of 10 year olds hanging out together again
19:40that's pretty cool that that's uh that's crazy how you know three three guys from from new zealand
19:48just end up in the same small place yeah and like we'd all been off doing our things we'd all
19:53all maintained our our friendship and and um yeah even even career-wise in terms of different
20:00championships and whatever so to end back together racing against each other was it was pretty cool
20:05i think it's cool you can find that pleasure in the racing against each other you know having
20:09had that competitive aspects in stage of six you know you're always comparing yourself a little bit
20:13back and forth but to see all three excel in your own way i think it's so cool like you've all done
20:19your thing right sure and then you just end up at some point it's funny as well because you know
20:25as you get older i think you get more and more mature about it where um i think naturally you support
20:31each other more and more as well you know you've got way more respect i mean you always have respect
20:36but when you're eight years old you just want to be the best yeah and now you still want to be the
20:40best but you realize that the other guy's pretty good as well yeah which which is awesome which is
20:45awesome to also like if i had two of my friends that with if i go back home uh like let's say 10
20:52years of swimming for example 10 years ago the guys i was swimming with i don't see myself
20:56in you know having a friendship with them right here in monaco really still doing the swimming
21:01career and stuff and be that closely competing but also in terms of friendship yeah uh it's something
21:07that i don't want to say i'm jealous but it must be cool to have that feeling it's like home away from
21:12home yeah i'm lucky though because for example if that wasn't here then i think getting into
21:18your life when you first moved as you guys discover right you it's a bit awkward trying to
21:24meet guys or people doing similar things and i'm not really the guy to walk down the streets and
21:30holding the signs and i'm looking for friends you know it's not quite a friend not the kiwi way
21:36maybe it isn't the kiwi way um but did you all when when if you can imagine it or remember it when did
21:45you decide like 100 racing is what i'm gonna go for i'm gonna take my shot at racing oh i think
21:52you've got to be pretty lucky in in life like man i've been so fortunate to have my parents be behind
21:59me to be able to get me into the sport into karting when i was super young you know it's um it's a
22:06passion when you're a young kid but i think i mean it's not my decision at six years old to buy a go-kart
22:14it's not my decision at seven eight to spend every weekend going to the go-kart track and stuff right
22:20so pretty lucky to have parents who basically gave all that up to support me um what kind of racing
22:26was your dad doing just club stuff like um track day some some normal club meetings he had a like a
22:35lotus seven type um catering car you know and and uh yeah just he's he's really hands-on really loves
22:43his his cars from the mechanical side um so yeah he did the driving as well that's really really cool
22:52i think for everyone that has a success history is in sport many times it comes from either
22:59most of the time just endless support from back home yeah but you know that you can be confident
23:06in spending all your time and energy to try and get really good at something yeah true true because
23:11if you don't have that it's it's it's yeah it's common i like it when you look around the world and
23:17you see the the top sports people in many different um categories i think that's a common aspect and then
23:24when you hear about someone who hasn't had that and still made it it for me makes it uh
23:30special kudos very special yeah kudos to that for sure i was um i mean we did speak about how it is
23:40like moving away 20 000 kilometers from your home time but like your everyday lifestyle here how has
23:45that changed i mean it's probably like 10 years ago or whatever you lived back home in new zealand or
23:50something but your everyday how does it how has it changed to come here being a professional
23:57athlete living in a place as monaco where you can do anything basically but you will still need to
24:04be focused on your career so i've gone i guess like i saw you go through the you know different stages
24:11of life right but when i left home it was basically leaving school as well and so i stopped um
24:19you know finished up at school went basically to to live in the uk and and every day it was
24:26oh well i've got three weeks for the next race what am i going to do each morning
24:30and you know you watch videos you watch tv series you go to the gym because you're going to train but
24:36you don't really have a structure you're just waiting for the next race whereas when i went to
24:41japan i was like okay i need to put some routine into my life and so um i'm terrible at learning
24:48languages i think a lot of that's from effort that for myself to put into it but i put myself into
24:54a japanese language school wow just to be i wanted to learn some of the language but as well it was
25:01like okay 9 a.m every morning you're at school until 11 or 11 30 whatever it was and then from
25:07there okay i go to the gym we have lunch go to the gym and so each day then i had no routine in
25:13between the races and um that i think built some structure and some knowledge of okay this is how
25:21i'm going to spend my time each day is going to be beneficial to me in some way um and i'm not just
25:27sitting around home or or wasting letting time go by um and then on top of that we were driving so
25:34much in japan so i was doing two championships at once it was common to do there um but it meant
25:39most weekends something was going on whether we're testing racing or whatever and so life become really
25:45busy and i just got used to this lifestyle that when i've moved back to monaco i try replicate that
25:51in some way um i don't like waking up and not really knowing what i'm going to do or having
25:57nothing i think it's good to have those days but i just naturally like being in some routine or or
26:03having um something on the calendar during the day that i know is beneficial to myself as a as an
26:09individual whether that's for racing or just for the general life i think i can totally relate to the
26:15structure there the need for structure and uh even for us when we were just having for example school
26:22and then you would still have you know a gap of maybe six seven hours after school until for
26:27example dinner time and what do you do in that time some days you would have shorter school right
26:33what do you do with the time so the fact that you've been able to um let's say adapt your day
26:39to not allow yourself to just rest it out chill it out challenging yourself giving yourself structure
26:47it's really important i feel it myself as well and um yeah it relates not just to racing right it's
26:55just yeah i think whatever whatever you're in i mean a lot of people have it naturally just by
27:01either i mean okay not if you've got a short school day but if you've got a full school day
27:06you have that that routine planned out for you and if you're in a in an office job you're you've also
27:12got it kind of structured out for you where you're in at the office at this time you have these
27:16meetings and you go home at that time and so as soon as that's not there and i find it important
27:21to kind of recreate that yourself going to formula e again so you've done a lot of normal racing
27:30how does that compare to let's say formula e like what kind of are there different challenges is it
27:37similar type of racing is it completely different like what does it look like
27:41yeah you know at first i was like wow man this is this is so different this is so different um
27:49not in the not in a negative way just just new um pretty exciting a lot to learn um i think anyone
27:57that comes into the championship there's still a fair bit to learn but at the end of the day we're
28:03still um we're still just trying to drive as fast as we can you know there's still qualifying
28:09where you've got two pedals and a steering wheel you've got a friend who says at the end of the
28:14day it's only a car four wheels mate yeah and and so you've got that aspect of qualifying where
28:21you're just still trying to drive as fast as possible i think the race side is then what's
28:26quite different um because you've you've got this phase of the race or phase of the straight where
28:33you lift off the throttle you close for a little bit almost like fuel saving um but it's it's uh
28:39energy saving and then you've got a phase of the braking where we're um recuperating a lot of energy on
28:48the brakes to put back into the car and to have more efficiency um so it means that yeah there's some
28:56different techniques to learn from the racing side but from a qualifying side it's still pretty much
29:00flat out yeah and uh i like that challenge as well i mean i think you watch a lot of races these days
29:08and i think one one's been a lot closer lately i really enjoy watching it um but i watched a lot
29:15of other series and there's no passing you know who's gonna win after the start it's a bit boring
29:20whereas in fe man like anything can happen yeah i really can following like the races you'd be
29:26thinking okay this guy is leading now all right but you don't really have the pit stops you don't
29:30really have that kind of thing so it's really a lot of the strategy on the on the track the attack
29:36modes the boost zones and stuff like this but then you're still going to be fast right exactly all
29:42that's going on it's still going to be fast yeah and the last the last two races now been leading
29:48with eight laps to go any other championship you're like all right where's what does the trophy look
29:54like and where's the after party you know but in former in former eight eight laps to go you're like
30:00it's a lot closer anything can happen yeah speaking of the last races you've done really well recently
30:06like last race was in brazil right got second there yeah last race has been good man but there's still
30:12like so long to go in the championship still 10 races left um we're still pretty pretty well the
30:19season's still young so um there's a kiwi talking here you know talking it down no i gotta talk it
30:25down like i've just yeah of course just been saying you know the races are crazy and anything can happen
30:29and i'm sure maybe one of these next races it could even be my next race it's it's a no points or
30:35or it's a tough day and that's um that's part of the sport right so been amazing to have some good
30:41ones but try not to really celebrate them yet because it's still so so long to go but do you
30:46think that with the um let's say the podiums i know you've had you've had uh three podiums this
30:52this season and they've been consecutive yeah and let's say the first three races you were doing
31:00x position and x position and then kind of got it podium there podium there podium there do you feel
31:06that there is this flow sort of thing you're riding on that you feel with the previous race or
31:14something that okay i can i can definitely do it again yeah i think so i mean saying that i think
31:20the next track has been a bit of a bogey track for us the last few years so it's nice to in a way
31:27almost have that because it keeps you on your toes it doesn't let you get too confident you know that
31:32the next one's still going to be tough that i'm going to work my ass off to be prepared as best
31:36as i can because it's not going to be easy right um but certainly the last few races have given you
31:42big confidence i mean i can walk into nightclubs now with my sunglasses on
31:46with that i'm kidding with that
31:50but i know that the next races you have coming up in berlin right yeah there you'll need your
31:57sunglasses at night sean and i just visited berlin this weekend and i'll tell you man
32:01is something like is something it's an experience to say the least it is an experience mate berlin
32:10is a surviving experience you guys go out after the half yeah we went out after the half i'll tell
32:16you what happened basically i'm keen to hear this we here we we're running this sunday i have half
32:21marathon of berlin sean me and ben good times by the way thanks mate good times appreciate it we all put a
32:27solid effort down there everyone got a personal best out of it really yeah cheers and uh we crossed
32:34the line and already there the first thing i'm having is a alcohol free beer and erdinger so
32:40already there you're starting with the beers i didn't drink probably water until we got home at
32:47midnight or something even then we didn't drink any water because we didn't have any water right
32:52the minibar was closed because the minibar was on me so it was closed absolutely closed
32:57and uh we just went straight for pizzas beers after that we went for the bakery beers and then more
33:05beers beers ended up in some donut kebab shop at uh 1 a.m and some see the thing is berlin has the
33:13potential to be a lot more and some of the other runners we were running with oh they went to
33:18clubs with certain types of swings and whatnot really really okay okay and i think i'm actually
33:25quite happy we didn't go there no names sharon for the rest of monaco to actually don't live in
33:31monaco unfortunately yeah they're all from manchester those ones okay okay well i mean the names of the
33:35clubs oh oh i think the one the one the most people went to was the kit kat club kit kat yeah
33:42okay and be careful you've just just notification from easy jet yeah nice to berlin flight sold out
33:49there you go easy jet will send you the invoice they will probably they will they will sorry
33:57that's cool that's cool i'm excited to uh to to follow the races in berlin but also in monaco that's
34:02sort of the next round as well coming up real soon a month time or something we're racing here
34:07i'm pumped for that every year pretty pumped it's nice going down the um the front straight and
34:14around the port now seeing all these grandstands knowing you know they've put them up for us and
34:18then they'll just get them out yeah yeah exactly that's essentially that's essentially what it is
34:25that's essentially what it is you know we'll be there on the grandstands absolutely 100 percent but
34:30like what's it like to to race in monaco you're now living here you're racing in in the city you
34:36said that you did like also the street tracks quite a lot i mean monaco is almost um the least street
34:44salt circuit for us because you know they do such a good job with the roads here it's all um retarmax
34:52you know fresh freshly sealed um so there's hardly any bumps it's super high grip the tracks quite
35:01fast for fe car that um it's almost one of the most say racetrack tracks that we have we go to
35:09sao paulo we go to rome we go to these um or india and we're on some pretty crazy roads like the
35:19there's some big jumps bumps you know it's hectic have you seen on board camera you will know what
35:24next talking about yeah i mean but it makes it super fun and then you come to monaco and everything's
35:28super smooth really nice okay well this is this is a bit different um but no it's an epic week you
35:35know you sleep at home you walk down to the track it's um it's easy to be too chilled just because
35:43you're at home you're you know everything's pretty relaxed but um i'm looking forward to it how do you
35:49keep yourself on toes for that weekend then uh in what way what do you mean i mean just to make sure
35:56that come race day you are at your top you'll be at home you know you're in your let's say comfort
36:02zone to some way yeah you still got to make sure that when race day is here you know you have
36:07that much more to give than the others because you're at home you can really prepare yourself
36:12yeah i think that's that's key is to not um leave anything at home that you normally wouldn't
36:20and think oh it's fine because i can go back and get it or or you know you're pretty chilled still pack
36:27your bag like you normally would still go to the track like you normally would stay in that race
36:31race fine but i mean that's what i try to do um and then sleeping in your own bed and being at home
36:37everything else just becomes an advantage and not a negative yeah it makes sense i remember when i was
36:43for example competing with swimming it would be so nice to have your own bed but let's say the whole
36:49aspect of the competition would change dramatically from if i was staying at home or if i was at some
36:55hostel or somewhere else yeah like my mindset would just be a bit more in a positive way in a positive
37:01way like if i was out i would be a little bit more just like um just trying to be more prepared a little
37:09bit harder on myself okay a little bit uh trying to get all these small things prepared for the race
37:15whereas you say exactly if you miss something from home you can just go back and get it or something
37:21like making sure you're prepared to to every extent yeah yeah yeah true so that's that's cool
37:28where's your favorite place to race um and macau is probably uh doing your time in japan i imagine
37:35i would say within formula um the past years i've really enjoyed new york that's been for me that's
37:42i i love the city um the race we were in in brooklyn uh on the port so a little bit out i guess of the
37:51city but um the whole week leading up to it like it's hectic it's fun i really enjoyed it there
37:57monaco's pretty hard to beat i think as well it's it's special because it's home but it's also
38:03probably the most iconic you know name and place um so yeah those two are pretty big
38:10cool i know you you've getting a like in formula e there's a lot a lot of fans now
38:16what's the weirdest thing a fan has ever asked you to sign
38:20um their tits their tits how does it feel just signing a pair of tits i wouldn't know mate
38:28it's for everyone listening smart guy this one huh pr trained yeah very much so you can definitely
38:36tell 100 that's funny all right if you could build your team at the moment uh an imaginary team and
38:44you had to choose one celebrity to be your teammate to race with big this is big what celebrity would
38:50that be um i would choose tom cruise tom cruise tom cruise why big name probably a lot of probably
39:00common not something something out of the ordinary i guess but um just just got that persona right
39:09action sports dude definitely definitely definitely yeah who would you choose yeah what do you guys i was
39:17actually just gonna say because i remember sean asking me a question on uh on another episode where
39:24is like something about some celebrities or something who would you want to play you as a
39:29celebrity or something and i picked tom cruise i did i did take tom cruise as well okay so uh i i could
39:36definitely see youtube vibe as well like just taking the piss out of uh the garage just having a great
39:42time but it'll be like it's it's an interesting question actually because i don't think you can choose
39:46adam sandler you know what i mean you've gotta yeah you're gonna have guys 100 who would you choose
39:55sean uh probably ryan reynolds okay yeah i think that one would just you'd have a ride you'd have a great
40:04time he's funny huh hilarious yeah he's funny that would actually be so funny to see you right
40:10right i mean all right let's say they would make a movie out of you then okay
40:16who would play who would play you um oh that i don't know i think you guys would be better to
40:22choose who would you want to play you oh man um
40:32i i feel like you guys are gonna be waiting too long for me to come up with an answer i think i think
40:38someone to play you let's say the let's say it's the new rush movie or something you know like some some
40:44um some movie with you on one side and then i don't know you know who i'd want to play me mark
40:51walberg that's cool that's a good one that's original he's like i find um
41:01yeah maybe he's more positive he's more energetic than me but i think he's he's a big dog right
41:06i agree that he's a bit i think it's interesting you say mark walberg because what comes to mind for
41:13me with mark walberg is this dude that is you know he's putting in the work every day you know he's
41:19up at 2 a.m and his little gym you know working out he tells you about it yeah at least it tells you
41:24about it yeah but i mean yeah you can tell that the guy has something going for him and that he is
41:29he doesn't necessarily shout out what he's doing all the time what he's putting in the work yeah
41:36then you have someone like drained rock johnson you'll know he'll be putting in that work every
41:39day but you also know that he's doing that because it'll be everywhere or something like this he also
41:43couldn't play me right he didn't couldn't play you so i would actually think that uh it's interesting
41:48because i'm sure you're putting in the work for your career for your profession but it's not something
41:55that you are actively you know posting everywhere telling everyone hey i'm doing this hey i'm doing
42:02that like for example you were one of the guys that joined us for the running challenge here in
42:07monaco and mind you guys that this is two marathons in two days and nick was doing it as a sort of a
42:13weakened activity in between races yeah but i didn't imagine you guys are you guys are the machines
42:20these guys have the pace yeah just i just think i can definitely tell you that mark walberg would be
42:25cool it's a cool character actually speaking about the four by four by 48 what was your kind of
42:32looking back at it what was your high point what was the low point um low point was
42:43low point i think
42:47only stands out as the say like the knees or or actual actual physical
42:55limitation because i feel cardio wise or or on a on a decent run i can be quite okay and that's what
43:03we do training wise but i didn't expect that kind of you know you feel pain in weird areas and and i
43:11thought that probably um that limits you right the last last few runs what i was actually really really
43:18happy about was um the fact that you messaged in a week before and i was just like all right i'll do
43:26this and i didn't really know the extent of the challenge or how much running it actually is and
43:31then you kind of look at it and you go holy shit guys this is this is a fair bit of running oh actually
43:36there's gonna be no sleep there's gonna be you know um and seeing you guys the energy that you brought
43:43to it you know i arrived dead at 4 a.m and you guys are speaker on up jumping doing warm-ups and
43:49everything you know it gets you going but it shows you as well that hey it doesn't matter you know
43:55probably never going to be more tired in my life yet those things are achievable still in that state of
44:01mind and um i think we're all guilty of having a 10-hour sleep and waking up and going i'm tired but
44:08actually actually actually that just proves to me that you're not you know you do 48 hours running
44:15with with an hour of sleep in between if you're lucky and and um you feel pretty good so that was
44:21massive positive for me looking back at that and how it's changed how i feel for each day since then
44:27i think you you get a really good understanding of your body that's huge mate that's huge i don't
44:32know if that's correct or incorrect it's how i feel i don't know if you guys felt the same thing
44:36no i had i had that last year you guys done it twice now right that's the second
44:40like after like after the first time i did it i just felt like i could really do anything after
44:45that yeah it was like you like you wake up and i know that you felt it as well you wake up at 4 a.m
44:51and you're like
44:55don't want to get out now and then once you do like at what point of the like what at what point
45:03of the runs were you like okay this is actually fun did you ever have that point or was it like
45:08until the end was like no no no no definitely was um i found it way better when we were together i
45:16think there was a run maybe three to go i dropped off you guys and you guys did a really good you guys
45:22sprinted off i think i did that one more or less solo it was at the same pace it would be doing the
45:27others but that was the point where you realize um how nice it is running really good with people
45:35yeah that yeah i think that was that was probably the only thing that i took out of as well whereas
45:40um you know you wake up at 4 a.m you're like oh shit this is tired you get there and you see
45:45everyone else and you all joke about how tired you are and it made it it makes it fun straight away you'll
45:51you know start laughing you all this music playing there's police telling you this be quiet but then
45:58not complaining to all the drug dealing kids at the parking lot it's weird stuff weird stuff happening
46:04at night in monaco somewhere yeah but it's uh it's true that when you when you share moments with others
46:11it just becomes easier to do the stuff that isn't maybe too fun yeah yeah it's not fun to stand there at
46:17foy and trying to get warm imagine doing it by yourself impossible impossible it's just harder
46:22no but honestly you even have done the hard part which is the staying home sort of alone waking up
46:29there you know getting in the car by yourself driving to the place you know speaking yourself into it
46:34imagine at my place you guys had 12 of you staying there right eight eight eight guys in one place
46:41there were no beds for everyone there were no kitchen there were no bathrooms for everyone but
46:47at least waking up you would know that there would be one guy at least that would be pumped
46:52yeah for the next run and then it just it compounds i felt as well after every run you guys were always
46:57the last to leave first to arrive we tried i'm i'm so happy that you i'm so happy that you've noticed
47:03that because that was really what we tried completely we really tried to make sure that you know if you
47:08would put the time aside to say i'm gonna spend my friday night saturday and sunday to try to challenge
47:14myself we would be putting in everything to make sure that you have a good time that was really
47:19appreciated that was really cool cheers mate cheers very kind and um i was just happy that you for
47:25example with everything going on still wanted to take the time and and spend two days doing one thing
47:34which necessarily isn't going to directly improve your driving but indirectly maybe you can take
47:40something away from it could be cool maybe i think it's just nice to challenge yourself right exactly
47:44it doesn't matter what you do it's awesome yeah and with uh 37 races entered so far in formula e
47:51the next challenge is up ahead for you race 38.
47:55bang didn't know that yeah a little fact there okay there we go i thought it was funny with your
47:59racing number yeah do you have a name for your race car does it happen no then what was your first car
48:07like your first car that was your own you drove around i so when i was living in the uk um
48:16just i guess financially but i was um living with my great auntie and she she had a uh
48:26like a ford ka yeah i'd be driving that day to day but i so i never owned a car i was always just i
48:36was on the bus i was borrowing friends cars didn't have insurance you know just being a complete idiot and
48:42driving driving safely but in terms of not having insurance and those kind of things i was always um
48:49just trying to get from a to b and then uh then in japan i i bought a washington 97 togo as my first car
48:58nice i was probably stupid but it felt cool you're just acting off hand from togo drift every night
49:07there after training and that become my become my daily ride so then i had um i had a really cool gym
49:14there i think um it also brought a lot of routine for my my life so my last two years i was i was at a
49:21place um they only have athletes and and models yep yep models and um but they they do uh
49:35like everything to support my life outside of so outside of racing or your sport so it's your recovery
49:41it's nutrition there um a good cafe there that's they take the micronutrients of every bit of food
49:50and your lifestyle and and then you've got your trainer and your training as well so i'd be there from
49:55like nine to twelve most days and uh not that's not always just three hours training that's maybe one
50:02hour training in two hours something else whatever it was um but i just love driving across the bridge and
50:08driving the training in my car love that love that simple pleasures you know do you have a name for
50:13that car no no i do it's uh when you're moving to monaco it's actually called a pain in the ass yeah
50:22this is true monaco does have its faults there you need a pain in the ass
50:27right around town all right so yeah it ended up being something i had to to sell within two weeks
50:32and get rid of yeah fair enough it's fair enough oh you brought it from no i bought it in japan was
50:38yeah there but i i you left it there all right okay that would have been quite the stint to get that over
50:44here yeah well we um i mean i i'm i'm really happy with uh with uh with our lovely chat here
50:51hey if you're happy i'm happy that's awesome that's very happy as well so we're all happy then
50:57and uh with those happy vibes maybe we shall see the episode off yeah thank you guys thank you nick
51:04thank you for joining us thank you guys for listening yeah thanks for taking the time mate appreciate it
51:10no really cool having a chat um yeah it's awesome good fun oh it's good fun it's nice we have some good
51:17laughs yeah indeed well uh in that case thanks for listening guys yeah and uh happy days ciao

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