- Yeah, first one,
yep, so it's basically a photo of me
slightly overweight as a kid.
(Alex laughs)
The cheeks were in full flow back then.
This was my first year in Red Bull.
I was actually a Red Bull driver when I was,
12, oh, what's this?
12 years old.
So, Red Bull and I go down memory lane
but yeah, I was Red Bull backed.
Yeah, I won the British Championships that year
so it was also quite a good year for me
but yeah, that was when we first made contact.
Second one, yikes.
This is the full Red Bull 2012 squad junior team.
I was a--
Not a great year for me, I think it's fair to say.
I figure there's so many of us
so people who obviously can't see this,
it's Daniil, Carlos.
Daniil Kvyat, Carlos Sainz
and then there's a few others.
I still remember Callan O'Keefe, Stefan Wackerbauer
Lewis Williamson and myself.
Three of them are now in F1.
Check that out, that's cool.
But again, thanks for the card
but it it wasn't a good year to remember.
Third one, okay.
I've seen this one a bit.
This is a cool one.
This is Charles and George,
Charles Leclerc and George Russell, sorry
and the guy who caught copped out here
is the guy who I went on holiday with
last weekend in Portugal.
So, it's so bad for him
because he gets copped out in all of this photos.
I mean we always tag him and tell him.
whenever there's a photo of him not copped out.
we say "Hey, there you go, mate."
But yeah, it was a cool time.
We were all teammates.
I was in in the category above them.
I was a slightly older than--
I am slightly older than George and Charles
but we used to, after every race or every session,
we used to hook up what's called VS Racing
It was an app and we'd all play online
with each other on Bluetooth
and it was like the best times of our lives.
I think we were more excited to finish a session
and play a racing game on our phone than to drive.
No, I'm just joking.
Oh, nice one.
This is myself, Max and O'Keefe.
So O'Keefe was the guy I talked about the first one.
So he later on - [Man] He had the car?
He later on became a Red Bull junior driver.
This was the world championships of 2010.
I was still with Red Bull at this time.
Again more so the tie side but still this was when they say
connecting more towards the junior team.
So Dr. Marcoh would start to call me at this point
and obviously beating young Max.
Max was--
We were both a little bit chubby back then.
I think Max was, that is quite fair to say.
But we were, yeah, I remember this weekend.
We had a big crash in one of the races.
He started third or fourth
because he got the penalty for that,
for naughty driving and he finished second
and I won the race.
But it was a close race, actually.
I think I only finished a second
or something in front of him.
And then final one, this was a nice one.
This is GP3 2016 on the podium,
a hell of a young Charles Leclerc.
We really had a good year.
That was the year I wasn't really very well-known at all,
so 2015 I was racing in Formula 3,
so I was competing against Charles, anyway.
We were both in Formula 3 together
but I was with a new team.
It was called Signature.
and I finished seventh in the championship that year
which isn't that bad considering Formula 3
is very dominated by two teams
Prema and Carlin at the time
and I got this chance to join the Formula 1 show
let's say with GP3 with ART, a top team.
I had Charles as my teammate
so we were kind of--
I don't think people really expected me to do well
and it ended up us fighting to the championship
to the last race, actually.
I was leading the race as well
and had a crash,
had a crash with another driver, not Charles
and two minutes Charles was already quick, I mean.
We were both fighting pretty much every race
but a really good time
and I really enjoyed it actually
I think he was one of the few times
when you have a really big rivalry but still good friends.
Am still with Charles now, I'm good friends with him.
And yeah, it was nice.
It was this weird atmosphere
where there was two other teammates.
We had four drivers in a team
us to a guy called Naraku Kazumi.
He was like the next Japanese Honda driver
and Nyck de Vries who is now in Formula 2
leading the championship right now
and yeah, we all had this kind of a super team,
you could call it.
And it was amazing when you could see
data from four different drivers,
four completely different driving styles
and yeah, it was just a really cool experience.
Hi, I'm Alex Albon
and you're listening to the Talking Bull podcast.