the interview show on artsy i'm now going off and today will be meeting one of the fastest people on earth with only to throw off is the first to russian formula one driver in history and two thousand and ten is his first season so far he has scored six points but ray no formula one team says they are happy to have him on board and believe in his talent today their russian f one driver and their rino f one team principal other guests of spotlight. formula one races have been thrilling the world for sixty years the best to make use of in picking the best drivers from different countries to drive the best cars and now among the best of the best russians first drive n f one italy prof he made his way to the renault team through various racing serious where he gained experience. renault principle year between tally after his success in the g.p. to asia serious the training ground for future f one drivers his best result so far

has been a seventh position getting his first championship points so how's he doing now and how's are getting along with the team italy bit off on the rebuild yeah i hear in the studio to give us beyond says. hello gentlemen thank you very much for being with us hello and welcome to the shop my first question is to the telly and it's a very serious question because i have read it more than once in the internet and also in the print media that your days in formula one account it that you have started but you are sort of already finished. what's it all about well you just find that in the internet. further thought oh well we still continue to work i'm still doing my job and still saying that of the year.

when i think of the things fine so i would know nothing happened nothing no scandal no i mean the problems here are the focal of those on the list and or maybe so both of them you will be changing me for the next year but like if you come to internet today you will see the so this is a no i already sign so i think people just speaking wrong things ok mr billy. you. have been pleased by vitale's performance as far as i know you have been please so far what what makes you believe and i have also read that in the internet you can find anything that that you called vitale the best ruki in reno's package is that true it's totally true you just just have to comes in and out of point he's got to really. the fact is already mark from anyone with a lot of talent under of action on track and some very good performance on

a very put an adversary somebody with potential. literally this is your rookie season in formula one what makes formula one so different from the previous races that you took part in postal how the team was working i think it will also went on for a while he was really surprised how the team is working all this is very interesting i thought you would start you would start saying about the car they are is different and you saw it by the team that did so and so the main the main difference for you is not how the car is working with our key the people it was all here how they work in what we are different about it is more than five hundred fifty five hundred people is working the teams right to. try to make it and the car eight hundred people. including i mean cattery and all that the thing is and this and this is the number of people here. who go along with you with the circus

or these other people in england who want to shop this family working through the go through sort of it's a love of sixty seventy people so this is this is was first one i was surprised in the second one of course when i was sitting in the car of the car the six zero rating the stereo will host you know you have a lot of. it was really surprising in the car for a long period p.s.p. having. to work is really like playing you know you have a lot of yes which is the same well russia has a long history of trying to get to formula one spotlights the media has more and that. the first fan of formula one in russia was joseph stalin son of a c.v. he was behind the building of the first two russian racing car in the 1930's the car a named soco or hawk was revolutionary for its time but it didn't comply with the

rules of formula one soon never took part in international competition in one thousand nine hundred sixty the soviet version of formula one was created and for years russian engineers tried to come up with cars they would be as fast as muscle roddy's or through ariz but all the temps failed by the end of the sixties the cars made in the us to start with too far behind their western counterparts the soviet formula one never managed to travel beyond the country and then one nine hundred seventy six it seized to exist what followed were numerous attempts to stage formula one the grand prix in russia the first was right after the nineteen eighties summer olympics in moscow and though brash never said to have been enthusiastic at first thank you was the sun never hosted the race after the collapse of the soviet union from time to time there have been plans to build formula one tracks in russia but none of them has yet been fulfilled. to us dennys

have seen several russian research trying to get to one the main problem they faced is the inability to find sponsors when vitaly petrov finally made it into the world's premier racing competition its popularity in russia soared and while there's still no f one tracking russia there's a chance to feel the spirit of the competition during the most cool city race in weekend which draws crowds to the heart of the capital city every summer. because russia is. not famous for its racers well the only exception is the commands of the famous laurie drivers so but the quality of driving in the streets in russia i think is one of the best in the world no really the russians are very good drivers so why what do you think is the reason that russians who do drive cars who love to drive fast have never made it to to big

in racing why. for two reasons i think the first reason is that we don't have a very professional circuit where i was going to try something and say come on we don't have a school. called in bahrain in the early. when they can wander over and. this is the problem i think. eric as far as i know formula one is different from many other sports because a driver has to buy him self a place in the team is that right and how much does a driver have to pay for example to to to buy himself a place in reno it's not a secret it's not a secret of it's wrong. doesn't have to buy receipts. if you depends basically about the finals as a team as many many sports you need some sponsors to achieve what you want to do from. one is one of the most expensive because not only is

a driver you need to develop a car. definitely some teams toppings on revver and maybe some teams are asking the drivers to hope this isn't the case in the in run oh so so you hire drivers it's hard so you didn't have to do to to pay like cash to do to drive arena it. how did you get into formula one how did it happen and why reno it was moving to counter forewarn thaw. from the smallest for more and the latest was a tribute to and then to come to one. ok you know you succeeded it's a dream of many people to to to to make it different when you're just twenty four that over here you know if you succeed what's what's the key to success in f one racing natural talent or war exercise technology technique

and think everything everything we're going to put in one place for example would result. would. have a good understanding what what you're doing before they can ship it to and you can perform on and report to everything in one pocket and this is the world. what do you think what for example let's say let's take michael schumacher what makes him so great what is this something in this sort of a talent that you can't train it's just have to be born with all it's all all these roller i mean if you tearing through the woods i have a special talent to drive this car at three hundred kilometers she was different desi. is different maybe maybe not maybe or maybe not to be honest. i just at the stage where the team was built around the groove is human and you had the best car of the paddock clearly but when he came you remember that when he came to two ferrari three was nothing and he said in three years we'll make you the best

and the enemy and he did yes but it's not only is a work of one on one guy you know it's a world team and it's five by this time it was more a ton of people in ferrari we all work together to make the team better. well recently formula one has started opening a new circuits so now it has a serious kids in the emirates and then china well all over the world from canada to to malaysia here what do you think what do you think about russia and russia has as we saw has has long been trying to get a formula one formula one track what's the problem with with with making one in russia i think first of all we don't have it like at all before it's called. the earth and then we don't have a real professional circuit to teach them. now at least. for one and all people thought of the war and i think i hope they will be built for

the race and for four more one you know so the whole of it's all because i believe it's it's if you take another example like spain ten years ago you know who was mostly interested in moto g.p. and racing cars and you need science to be very i'm sure the media first will be interesting in two for me i want ends in obviously the spectators and those are russian people. if there is an interest then obviously the next step will be to create interest and to brings a family one shoe into russian federation and make sure that people have access to it will if the russian one really want one circuit should they start by signing a contract with their for one and though didn't building the city get or first build the circuits and then try to break for everyone in who to the people who are interested in building such a project you know and i'm sure i mean been interested in those been very clear

these are clearly interested in bringing from when i went into russia now you have a russian driver on the other talented russian driver so it's now's the time to to move everybody to try to make the sport to be more famous and support everybody to make f one into russia. so you tell me if it's off and i recall it spotlight will be back shortly right after the break so stay with us down. to la. la.

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welcome back to spotlight and i'll do now then just a reminder that my guests here in the studio today are vitale petrov and. we have discussed the subject of bringing formula one to russia and the first part of the show now let's see if people in russia really think that this country needs an f one track spotlights cuts at you anyone ever has the details on that hi there today i'll try to find out if people in this country think that russia itself formula one track yes doing so with yes i think we need our own truck formula one is very interesting to watch. when you go i don't think i would go to work for the races i

don't because that interesting perhaps the most number of years of course we should have one because it's a very high catching event even though it's not cheap to have a racetrack o'con trees wealthy enough to have more than one well i think there are plenty of other problems in our country besides the lack of reform. i don't think we should have a formula one track because i think it is something only for rich people they can afford to travel abroad for these types of events and so there is no need for a track in our country because now yes we should have one because it's very interesting i would definitely go to watch it well that's what people think now do formula one drivers think that russian made it so formula one track thirty drivers say one of the guys in there the guys that you really mix with when you drive do what do they think about the perspective to come driving to moscow. i think that the reaction inside inside the circuit but i think the same way me for example i want some sort of you know to understand to the world to try something else i think

will be will be will do. so because he and most think it will be brilliant you're a beginner in formula one sounds so so i have a new circuit is good for you because this this levels all the drivers while driving an old circles gives gives more parties to the experience guys is that right right of course not right of course like i would be and then it's a look i didn't i don't know this sort of it's funny to learn from zero again but anyway it's a good experience to have a new suited for college and for more on one of the problems with russian precipitation in formula one is if it is of course the technology the car here now we have the driver but we still don't have the technology what's what's more important the car or the driver just don't say both you know both but i guess what would you say the car of the car of the driver eric you need you need to base

driver i'm the best car. i know i know you can you know what your thing you're going to go to a driver can't win if the car is not the deliver and vice versa you know you kind of the best far if you don't have the let's say one of the best driver you will not win ok let's not talk about ferrari everything but i want to do that let's talk about reno you have two cars right one one one driven by could beat said one driven by you if you switch cars are you going to make it better than could be said but will be changing and it will change and you will still be he will still be the fourth ready because five years in for one look what is what it is for example with this car what he will tell of course he will change. he just to have a good look at your new media needs to make people understand. it's not like running every morning. by regulation but also you can't races formula one car every day to train so you need to be living experience and we are many many examples like the

institute for example to now after three years start to get some points but that's a b. was not so fast an issue look at fernando alonso the first jury was driving for me now the end he was always between eighteen and twenty fourth so it's clearly experience comes with the years you you race before to build up and to learn how to race a racing car but f one is something which is very very competitive and we just needed a bit of time to to adapt but don't tell me that you had two cars are the same because because i don't know a lot about formula i know a lot about skiing but when like a company makes this keys the first five players go to the guy number one then the next five players go to the guy number two and then the third five and so what every player even the even such a simple thing as keys is worse than the previous one so if you have a good so you can't so i mean one is better of course it is a good thing in the for me when it's a compare with skiing you know it's

a we don't need to make hundreds of seeing so we just aim to make two four sets one for each one spare book or zones as falsetto ians or pickups to pull us across as always absolutely i don't equal parts on both carl and both cars are strictly identical ok one one question to both of you but i think alec and i was better yeah as far as i understand you're competing with c.d.'s right now for for grabbing the fourth place in the competition have you prepared something new for the new season something that will really. help you make it yes we have we have a many still many of aleutians coming. and i'm excited we have this famous dirk which has make a lot of noise or internet in the media which will come soon as well. in the summer . so we still have a lot of the grads which to mexico are faster had vetoed it to be faster as and

also this. is it true that making an f one car is it is like same. space technology is that right for the. slaves to build a plane very fair to say. the russian company called are all still no law against become an official sponsor a official partner are the rino company and this is why you have lied on your surety you have lied at which is a clear russian car on your eye on your car well. do you think that reno can. learn something from rusty and i can drastically contribute not only with money but with technology i think you expect answering i think both companies the decision to be a forerunner two to four was technology to be shoulders in the same it's clearly strategy can move think from both companies a reason seeing to learn to gain clearly rowers to gain something from another from

was their technology and vice versa literally when you joined the team well when you jet this company reno i'm sure that you ask yourself the question why are these strange people from france or french korea based in london and hiring hiring two guys from eastern europe to slide the guy's a pole in the russian is it just by chance so or is it sort of a sort of a rino strategy to guys from eastern europe. i think the theme they play to find the both people to win the war. if there's a month i think which country. i think. no there is there is no strategic decision or you are like a geographical now one of about or. did you know that there is a saying i'm sure you heard it more than once that every russian loves fast driving i mean i mean by like the russians are crazy that is crazy but yes i can i can see

it every morning and. they love me. ok literally you are taking this three seater of formula one to moscow and to drive it around the kremlin and in the center of the city what do you expect from this event just a thought i knew what of course the fun is good the meat my fans the people and then for my third it's quite important to feed the guys in the car and drove them around the kremlin just to show them how far the form or because like this we can speak with you and try to explain or explain the people around the world what is a form of envy will be in their understand when they really can go in the car and sit with me in there will be there is these three seats are really different from the real thing of the ones it's so it's slower of course a slow but the acceleration will be quite not really similar but quite you know it

i've heard it from last year when they did the similar thing last time event that that the formula really can't make it to real speed because the distances to small and i mean it can't really show the real the real it speed here but and first of all those three to look at them is very dangerous to wall full speed and to have a fast corner because you can do a mistake on pressure cables of. both or to be. nothing more was a speed it's more as you saw the soldiers are really losing this and i was assuring i mean succession of these guards certainly incredible you know and it's it's not very impressive to be driven at three hundred kilometer per hour it's more the acceleration from zero to one or two under the hospital make like three hundred now i think last year they did two. thank you something really well i did two hundred fifty in a normal cars but they said they said you're going to second for more than my second human shield the noise this is i'm in the first time in my life when i was in the circuit wasn't silverstone and the noise in real life is completely

different from what you hear in television it's like a honey bee i mean on television it's like a car but like on a real it is like a bee so i mean the noise it's exhilarating sport and to be wanting to rush into your life for what it is by the way is there any think in common in driving in a formula one car and then driving a normal car or. even a fast car like porsche whatever not so certain you're very you know i mean yes but but but i've heard an opinion like like a lot like an f one car is. incredible if you want this but at your place going is not possible to cope with for one sound it's a different different thing it is certainly a big clue for. you to fly the airplane i mean since i wrote it. i think it's something nothing in common not is not possible. i don't want to say been in the car but it's three or five or ten steps more when have you first.

got behind the wheels and drove a car how old will you. and you got five as far as you saw me driving was it your dad's colonel and it was a goalie or so was allowed to go for i was tried to go under the steering wheel. here and then come back just to see it go in have you have you ever being pulled over by police and the did you ever lose your license so now never not because i don't like to go fast or not about all because what you. can load so for example. if it's one hundred thirteen after one ok go another thirty if you go to one of your favorites you can then you can crash you can do it then jennifer and other people if i tell you know what i mean i prefer to not to go could go ok thank you thank you very much vitale eric thank you very much bill c.b. africa having coming here to us and just to remind you that bitterly patrols and

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