#Margot Laffite

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Margot Laffite : « Dijon-Prenois, c'est un retour aux sources »

Margot Laffite : « Dijon-Prenois, c’est un retour aux sources »

La journaliste-présentatrice de Formule 1 sur Canal + revendique une affection particulière pour le circuit dijonnais. Margot Laffite viendra fêter les 50 ans de Dijon-Prenois ce mercredi 12 octobre, et porter la cause de l’association Du Sport et Plus lors d’une vente aux enchères de prestige. Entretien entre deux avions depuis Osaka, où elle vient tout juste de couvrir le Grand Prix du…

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lewis being interview by margot laffite for canal+ at the qatar gp '23

I act like a kid all the time. I’m not embarrassed about it; I love having fun. So that’s why, you know, I’m always skydiving, surfing or I’m skiing or I’m riding my bike or whatever might be, that’s me being a kid. And that’s something I refuse to ever let go.

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So Lewis. I don't want today to talk about the World champion, the Formula 1 driver, I would like to talk about Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton, if you don’t mind. Can you describe the kind of kid you were at home and at school? What kind of kid were you?

[Smiling] Did you ever had a show called Dennis the Menace?

Oh yes of course.

You did?

Of that kind, yeah. Denis la Malice.

I was like Dennis the Menace 2.0. [laughs] I was climbing trees, I was just always riding my bike down the fastest hill. Naturally super competitive in everything that I did and, uhm, my dad helped me concentrate that energy into racing and that’s where stability came.

We know you were a huge fan of Ayrton Senna, but did you watch like every single F1 race, documentaries about F1?

No, when I was a kid I only watched documentaries on Ayrton Senna, read his books. Anything to do with Ayrton I would have it, whether it was a coffee mug or, not that I drink coffee as a kid, but I was watching Gran Prix from like since I was like 4 with my dad on the weekends. Yeah, Sunday sitting with my dad watching races was one of the best times, I remember.

If you could go back in time, where and when would it be?

It would probably be when I was living with my mum, before I was 8, so, yeah.

You are running the world so, how difficult is it to build friendships?

Yeah, it’s definitely not the easiest I would say. My two closest friends are from school, yeah, they are my brothers. Places where I’ve found good friendships are obviously on my job, and then when I’m doing music, when I’m working with musicians, it’s just like a different realm and there I’ve built some incredible relationships also.

What does being a grown up mean to you? Is it like tiresome to be more conscious of the impact you have on things and people, rather than the pleasant innocence of being a child?

I act like a kid all the time. I’m not embarrassed about it; I love having fun. So that’s why, you know, I’m always skydiving, surfing or I’m skiing or I’m riding my bike or whatever might be, that’s me being a kid. And that’s something I refuse to ever let go.

When you play a game with some children, maybe your family, nieces and nephews, do you let them win?

No, I try to win! I just [laughs] and they are good, they are getting good, so I have to get my wins while I can. But, my dad never let me win anything when I was a kid. I think is good to learn how to lose anyways, so [laughs]

Are you always on time or sometimes you’re late?

No, I’m always late. The only time I’m ever on time is when I’m getting in the car to race. But like if I’m going for a flight, I’m always late. I don’t know, I like the limit, yeah. [jokingly] I like getting there around the limit, I like the rush.

What are your thoughts and feelings about Max Verstappen? The man he is, the kind of champion.

He’s done an exceptional job. I think the team has done an amazing job. Collectively they truly deserve the success. Max has been faultless this year, he’s not made any mistakes. I only hope that there’s a time when I’ll be able to put up a fight for him.

When you quit F1 would you still want race like Dakar or the 24 Hours of Le Mans?

I currently don't really have any, like, zero, like, feelings to do those things. I love motorbikes, I’ve always loved Moto GP, still love it today. I have 2 super bikes. I think I probably always just gonna take my bikes out. I won’t compete professionally in anything ever again. It takes 10,000 hours to be, you know, a master of something else. I wanna spend that 10,000 hours on being the best dad or something like that, you know, or running my businesses in the best way I can. Where all my energy and focus will go to. For now, I’ll continue to skydive, I’ll continue to surf, those are probably the, riding the bikes, surfing and skydiving, those are the 3 fun things that I’ll make sure I always do.

Merci Beaucoup, Lewis.

Merci.

It was a pleasure as always. Thank you.

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margot laffite i am un love with you

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Margot Laffite accusée d'adultère, son ex balance - MSN

Margot Laffite accusée d'adultère, son ex balance  MSN http://dlvr.it/T3Wfgj

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Richard Mille is proud to have always counted high-level sportsmen and women among the brand’s partners. As members of our large family, they are at the heart of developments that seek to continually roll back the limits of the feasible. To celebrate the release of our first women’s sports watch, the RM 07-04 Automatic Sport, Richard Mille asked six inspiring and influential athletes (Aurora Straus, Margot Laffite, Nelly Korda, Nafi Thiam, Yuliya Levchenko and Ester Ledecká) to share their experiences and develop and define the attributes of this watch. https://www.instagram.com/p/CpHowKULKm9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Alain Prost getting hugged by Margot Laffite (daughter of Jacques Laffite) at Serre Chevalier, France, 2008 Photo Credit & ©: Agence Alexis

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DISCOVER MORE ON THE GOLDEN AGE OF F1 AND ITS LEGENDS WITH MARGOT LAFFITE!

DISCOVER MORE ON THE GOLDEN AGE OF F1 AND ITS LEGENDS WITH MARGOT LAFFITE!

Check out Margot Lafitte’s interview on our YouTube channel here:  

    The French car driver Adrien Tambay, son of Patrick Tambay, went to meet the children of some of the most talented Formula 1 drivers of their generation. The opportunity for them to address the golden age and behind the scenes of Formula 1! After the interview…

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lewis during his interview with margot laffite for canal+ at the qatar gp ‘23 [x]

Can you describe the kind of kid you were at home and at school? What kind of kid were you? Did you ever had a show called Dennis the Menace? I was like Dennis the Menace 2.0.

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Racing Fathers and Children

Alain and Nicolas Prost | Jan and Kevin Magnussen | Keke and Nico Rosberg | Graham and Damon Hill | Gilles and Jacques Villeneuve | Michael and Mick Schumacher | Jacky and Vanina Ickx | Jacques and Margot Laffite | Nelson and Nelsinho Piquet

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Charles Pic, Jean-Eric Vergne, Alain Prost and Margot Laffite

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LE GRAND JOURNAL du 07/03/13 - La Suite avec Alain Prost et la Team F1

Tell me if you can't see the video, I'll try to find it on youtube/dailymotion. They enter at 3m04

/talk about the new show on the channel/

-Melbourne is the drivers' favorite race, it's the one where we can do the most party before, after. Speak sincerily. (Apparently he actually affirms this and not answer them. Find it kinda rude to begin with that, but anyway)

JEV : it's one of my favorite yes, it's a wonderful country, a wonderful city, and the track is simply awesome. After the fact that it's the first GP of the year

-There is an atmosphere ?

JEV : yep totally

-It was the same for you ?

AP : I'm a little bit older, I knew Adelaïde, I knew Melbourne as a team director but not as a driver. Adelaïde already (was great I bet), but it was the last GP, but it was already one of the more festive.

-You got nice words for this two drivers (AP for CP/JEV). #talking to them# you're leaving soon ?

CP : on Saturday

JEV : tomorrow

-We're going to remind you, maybe to inspire you for this season, the Alain Prost's legend. First world champion title in 1985, the first of the four. Tell us Alain

AP : I've had already miss some title for 0,5 point, 2 points. And then at Brands Hatch (GB GP), I had to finish in the first four and I did everything to finish fourth. It was a real deliverance.

-And the last title in 1993 ?

AP : that was Renault's years. On the video, last race of the year in Australia, I was 2nd behind Ayrton Senna

-What makes you do it, you're confronting to death all the time, the fear is the best engine ?

AP : that's paradoxal because in my generation we knew a lot of accidents, with a lot of friends who infortunally died or got hurt. So we had an approach about it wich was certainly more complicated, at least different (from new generation)

-F1 is safer now ?

AP : since the last mortal accident, we unfortunatly know it, of Ayrton Senna and Ratzenberger the same week-end in 1994, since there were no really big accident. So good for them they don't know that, they've a risk's vision wich is different.

-We can't about your legend without speaking of Ayrton Senna, because there was this really strong relationship wich united you. Ayrton Senna who had tributed you when you stopped F1. That was a beautiful moment, he was in his car.

#video#

-it makes you something to see this moment he had not a long time before his death ?

AP : this sentence sum up absolutly everything we lived, because it was really hard, sometimes we were at the limits but we had a total respect and mainly a changement in his behaviour when I stopped driving. He had no more his motivation, his landmark and he was another man. And our relationship was totally different then. That's a really human story so this is nice.

-What does represent Alain Prost for you ?

JEV : I was 4, so when I was old enough to watch F1, I interest myself to the past. For me Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna are the F1 and are History with a big H of F1. It means a lot and it was exceptionnal moments.

CP : he's the last french driver who won championship in F1, and not only once.

-You both began driving really early, we have videos

[total mess, they all talk together, I don't get who began at four, who began at ten. But heee, JEV at 10, so cute]

#video : « of one side it's a pleasure of course, and also stress. »#

JEV : it's something I always had, it was a certitude, so years after years I had to have results to prove that I was able to go in the higher category. And even today in F1, it's the same thing, you need to always prove you're at your place and that you can win the championship.

-It's funny this certitude, isn't F1 a little bit a selfish/egoistic sport ?

ML : we're alone in our car and we work for ourselves

-And the team ? And the family ?

AP : for the family it can be hard, we're in a world where we're focus on ourselves, on our job. But I think it's not only in F1.

-Alain and Charles, come to the car. There is something wich is pretty impressing when you've never seen a F1 car really closely, it's the driving wheel, all the buttons, you drive at a crazy speed, sometimes 250/300 km ; and when you enter in a corner, you've sometimes have to do some settings, show us for example the button you must turn when you enter in the corner.

/Jev : the wheeling

-aha, that's good. The only think I remember is the blue scrollwheel.

CP : so this three scrollwheel are for the differential gear, it set the balance of the car. This one is the « multifonctions », it's more for engineers.

-It's like a game console, except you're risking your life

JEV : we don't really risk our lifes, we're lucky today to be in this kind of cars with a hudge security compare to the one 20 years ago. So it's not a risk we measure when we're driving, then yeah we can see it like a video game, a little bit more physic.

-So settings are important ? It plays a such big role ? You can play your race, your career on this ?

AP : we finally play all on this. It's true there is a big difference between today and 20 years ago, we see it on the driving wheel, things have evoluate.

-You said you've never like sport cars

AP : on the road. When you knew F1, with all the pleasures of speed, technology,... there is no car on road which can make me really thrill.

-I don't see you in a Renault Twingo on the parisian ring road !

#the guy comes, makes fun about the fact that AP lives in Swiss and not in France + the fact that the channel got the F1 rights. Not really interessant for you, talk only about AP anyway.#

-It's a men world, we've videos where you're driving. It's rare to see women in F1

ML : there are different reasons, first it's really hard physically, they can talk about it, and because there are not a lot of women who begins early in kart. So you've to learn to live in a men world but that's not really unpleasant.

-(talking to boys) women who drive … ? (it's a french expression : woman who drive, death at the end)

both : nooo

#talking about a book wich seem boring#

-Who got all his points on his driving licence (we got 12points on our driving licence, we lost them if we drive to fast, do dangerous stuff...). Who got his driving licence first, because you don't need it to be in F1.

AP : I've a swiss driving licence, we don't have points

CP : I've got it but I don't have all my points (booouh Charles, not good).

-So we're going to remind you the highway code (we got an exam on it in France, we need it to begin to learn how to drive).

#picture one : what does mean this sign ? A-cross-road, b- forbidden road before 18 c-obligation of driving naked.

Everyone : A (yeah, really difficult and not really funny, even in french)

#picture two : a-forbidden to native american and rom, b-beware to the native american and caravan

c-camping (beware to the crabs).

#picture three : an old lady is on the road, what do I do : a-I wait she goes across, b- I honk to motivate her c- I get around her.

JEV : Answer B !

#video

#other video, nothing important/funny.