For the latest episode of the podcast, we’re joined by special guest Mark Blundell, beamed in from the USA, where he’s been taking a little break. It was Blundell who set the sensational pole position time for the 1990 Le Mans 24 Hours in the hairy Nissan R90CK by over six seconds, a story that he tells in the Monsters of Motorsport issue.
The Briton expands on this in the podcast, revealing the worries over reliability, and that he had to fake a radio problem to proceed with a lap that went down in history – and for which he is perhaps even better known than his 1992 Le Mans victory with Peugeot.
Seeing as it’s Blundell, he’s in the States and we’re talking about powerful, turbocharged racing cars, we also download him on his Indycar experience of the late 1990s. He’s on fascinating form, especially when discussing the dark art of racing on ovals – no one who has never tried it is anywhere near qualified enough to discuss it, he argues.
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