@CARSaLaCarta asks Manish Pandey

At the exclusive interview @CARSaLaCarta had with the film director and scriptwriter Manish Pandey (Lucky — Senna — Heroes — Grand Prix drivers), Edgardo S. Berg asked him:

-“If you have to choose an F1 driver since 1950 up to today to do a documentary about him who would that driver be?”

Manish thinks a bit and raising the bet answers:

“I’d like to give you three drivers. In reverse order, nobody has done a story like this on Alonso. I think he is so intelligent, so fast, in Formula 1 he was so unlucky. If it weren’t by a couple of points, he would have been a five-time champion. Two with Ferrari and the other driving for McLaren. I could see that.

The next for me would be Reutemann, Carlos Reutemann. There is only one word to describe him, beautiful. The way he drove a car was beautiful. He was a bit neurotic like me. He was obsessed with his work, a perfectionist. If he could not get something right, he was completely upset with himself, which I love. I love people like that. Bernie once said that he was too hard to himself, that was the problem, he was just too hard.

I think that the story that has never been told properly is Fangio. That would be a beautiful story to tell as well. He was this tiny man whose career started in his late thirties. It was a different time. He was able to jump into any car and make it go quickly. He was so brave, people around him are dying, and somehow, he had a mental discipline to just drive about that and make him stop before his death. Then he realised he had to leave. Those would be great stories to tell”.

Three stories spoken in Spanish on three fantastic drivers. One of the greatest drivers ever, who won five titles on four different car makes in an eight-year period: Juan Manuel Fangio; The other, Fangio’s fellow countryman born in Santa Fe and who lost his dreamed title by a single point in favour of Nelson Piquet, Carlos Reutemann. The last one can still be enjoyed on track. From Asturias, Spain, the 2005–2006 World champion, and the latest Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One hired driver, Fernando Alonso. These three men are the chosen to be the core to film a documentary.

Images: Formula 1

Links to complement this article:

Interview on radio: https://go.ivoox.com/rf/102557695

YouTube programme: https://youtu.be/Yh8aLgDCWDw

A two-episode comment on Bernie Ecclestone:

Link 1: https://go.ivoox.com/rf/101838834

Link 2: https://go.ivoox.com/rf/102227046

Article related: Bernie ‘Lucky’ Ecclestone, a blue-ribbon documentary by Manish Pandey (Jiva Maya Productions)