This conversation wasn't on the agenda.

After Dick and Sabrina wrapped a conversation with Joe Saward about parents supporting young racers, Joe made an offhand comment that turned into its own episode: what drivers, and their parents, actually need to understand about the press.

Joe describes the driver-media relationship as exactly that, a relationship, not a transaction, and walks through what separates the drivers the press trusts from the ones they don't. He talks about the British-dominated media landscape, the danger of media training that just teaches drivers what not to say, and a story about a driver he met at thirteen that shaped a decades-long relationship.

Dick brings the parent's perspective, and the three of them get into where trust actually breaks down, and how hard it is to rebuild once it does.

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• Grand Prix+
• The Green Notebook

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