“Excuse me?” I ask, slightly perplexed at the informality of the scene ahead. “I’ve got an interview with Alex...” At the far end of the Rodin Motorsport truck, which houses a few tables, a dozen personnel poring over data on laptops and a built-in racing simulator, an Irish teenager pops his head out, next to the makeshift cockpit. “Hi… yep let’s do it.” And so, Alex Dunne leads me into a brightly lit meeting room opposite and closes the doors.
No team representative is present with us. No time limits on the interview, either. Just a journalist and the driver, with a desk in between. It is all rather refreshing. Certainly, compared to the heavily controlled environment of the modern F1 paddock, it is like night and day.
