Jules Bianchi and the glorious future that Formula 1 never saw
Twelve years after the rain-soaked 2014 Japanese Grand Prix, the memory of Jules Bianchi - and the extraordinary future he might have enjoyed - remains painfully vivid for Matt Bishop
On Tuesday 28th the podcast team of Roebuck, Widdows, Arron and myself journeyed north to the suburbs of Northampton to call on the ex-F1, sports car, rally and Indycar designer Tony Southgate.
Greeted with fresh coffee and biscuits we tried to condense his four decades in the sport into an hour. There were one or two things we didn’t have time to discuss…
We did, however, talk about his beginnings in motor racing with Lola, his move to Brabham and then his subsequent stints at Lola (again), Shadow, Arrows, Lotus, Audi… The list is as long as it is varied.

Just the average podcast: Tony signing his book while Roebuck makes friends with Tony’s daughter’s pug
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Twelve years after the rain-soaked 2014 Japanese Grand Prix, the memory of Jules Bianchi - and the extraordinary future he might have enjoyed - remains painfully vivid for Matt Bishop
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