Nigel Roebuck: Fifth Column
"Fans across the world loved that Jochen was a free spirit"
As a rule of thumb, retired racing drivers are much more fun to interview than current ones, and for one very obvious reason: the past is the past, and they have nothing to lose.
In the fullness of time, I suppose, someone will write a definitive account of life at McLaren in the Year Of Our Lord 2007, and probably the author should be from neither Britain nor Spain, since many of those nationalities appear entrenched in their respective beliefs that Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso never do anything wrong.
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