Hideki Noda Interview

[minrdi]

Hi there F1 Rejects readers!

I have been off-line for a little while, but I wanted to let you know that I've had the privilege of interviewing one of our favourite F1 Rejects - and the man who was described by Nelson Piquet Jr as "inexperienced"! - Hideki Noda! The interview can be accessed via this link:

http://richardsf1.com/2010/03/30/exclus ... deki-noda/

I thought you might be interested in checking it out: I've managed to run several interviews since I last promoted my Gianni Morbidelli interview on the Forum (refer to a separate topic in the HWNSNBM Forum), which include Alex Caffi, Hans-Joachim Stuck and Mario Andretti.

We have further interview in the pipeline, one of which will be with another F1 Reject (and SpeedTV F1 commentator) David Hobbs, which I'm conducting tomorrow morning and hope to have published before the Malaysian GP.

(Jamie and Enoch: I am horribly conflicted about interviewing or having interviewed drivers who would qualify as Rejects as per the terms of the site. You guys do an amazing job I have been a loyal devotee of the site since its inception.

I could only hope to replicate your success on my site in time, and it is not my intention to "mow your grass" with this interview at all. Please accept my apologies in advance, but I hope the readers will enjoy the interview anyway. I also hope there isn't any issue with sourcing a couple of the Noda images from your site (I have acknowledged the copyright claims), but pictures of Hideki pre-2001 are literally impossible to find and yours is the only websiter I could find that had any of him from around this time. If you have any issue with my use of the images, I will happy remove them.)

[watka]

Nice one, I think that you approached it very well and asked all the right questions. I never knew he drove for Forti in F3000 either!

[FullMetalJack]

I never knew he outqualified Comas in his second race, that's impressive as Comas was a decent driver.

[LucaPacchiarini]

Nice interview, seems a nice guy!

Didn't know he also raced in F.Atlantic, that was a good series