Hunt Vs Lauda: The Next Generation [DVD]

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He would like children (“no more than two, it should be banned to have more”), and to make enough money to buy a full farm and rewild it. I often forget this, but I was physically handicapped – until I had an operation to remove my adenoids, for the first two or three years I was mostly deaf, which affected my balance. I was a dribbling mess and constantly crashing into things.”

Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. To fund that, though, he needs to keep winning motor races. The goal is to win the Le Mans 24 hour race in 2026, to mark 50 years since his father’s championship win. It’s ambitious, he concedes, “but I think that’s a pretty good story, don’t you?” A petrolhead but committed environmentalist (he thinks fossil fuels should be banned for transport but allowed for recreation), Freddie has a girlfriend, fellow racing driver Aimee Watts. When he moved from Wiltshire he knew nobody on the island, nothing about building work and spent 12 months without heating or electricity.

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The thing that would bother me most about dying early would be leaving the loved ones behind. The pain I’ve experienced, I wouldn’t want them to. But going myself? Not too bothered, it would be a rest. I’m looking forward to the afterlife. I’m gambling on it being a lot easier than here…”

After the operation, he came home and asked what that noise was. “It was birds singing, I hadn’t heard it before.” A pause. “So yeah, that, then Dad dying, then school was absolute Japanese POW camp to me…” Ha, it’s funny really I have been enthralled by the smell of petrol and the sound of engines for as long as I can remember. It was never really anything to do with gender or the politics surrounding it, but rather the feat of human and mechanical excellence, the passion, the drive and I suppose the danger. It is something that has always impassioned and excited me. They are a close family, but there’s cruelly few of them. “Dad’s three other brothers all died as well. So I’ve really got to look after my health because the Hunt male life expectancy isn’t very high at the moment…” Freddie says, with a dark chortle.He attended five private schools in as many years before finishing with a stint at the local state school in Midhurst, West Sussex. At the time he was a promising polo player: “Mum and I decided to spend that money on horses instead.” I did a lot of partying when I was younger, but it’s self-destructive, isn’t it? Good fun in the moment, but alcohol is a really toxic poison. I still can’t get my head around how it’s legal, as it makes you feel s--- and do stupid things when you’re drunk.” Charlotte, we see you once again entering the very male dominated world of motorsport, why is this such a draw for you? I like to think I know what men want [laughs]. No, I don’t know really, I think part of me is very male in personality – if that is even such a thing anymore… I think perhaps I have more traits that would be traditionally thought of as masculine. I like celebrating strength and success, I love beautiful women and great physiques, cars, fitness… I see nothing wrong with celebrating hard work and the achievement it brings. Whether that is in the form of winning races, entrepreneurship or celebrity, I enjoy showcasing the best of what a person can be. It is this spirit that is captured in a lot of the films I make, if that is male-skewing so be it, but I am a woman and I love being inspired by powerful individuals undertaking inspiring challenges.

It was just unpleasantness, being alienated. But that’s equally if not more painful. I saw various counsellors and they probably did me worse [damage], because the other kids would know I was off to see a counsellor once a week.” I actually relished the opportunity. It is not often you can sit in a room full of your peers and get their full attention for an hour an a half. To think I had the likes of Dean Baker [Tom Hardy’s business partner of Hardy, Son and Baker], Adam Matalon [famous US producer], David Polemeni [Director at BMG] and the like all transfixed on my work, it is exciting and exhilarating. A marvellous opportunity. Of course there are nerves because nothing is perfect, but industry insiders know how damn difficult it is to make a film, especially on a lower budget and I know they would utterly respect that. So I truly enjoyed the moment and felt very blessed to be in that position. Charlotte Fantelli Freddie Hunt Mathias Lauda and Producers

The first two years of Freddie’s life were spent in Wimbledon, south-west London, before his parents divorced in 1989, after six years married. Freddie and his elder brother, Tom, moved with their mother to a country cottage in Sussex. They would travel to London at weekends to visit their father, who soon started another relationship. Freddie has “absolutely no recollection” of those first couple of years, and in fact sums up his early childhood as “pretty s-----”. Which turns out to be an understatement.