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Long-standing Sky Sports F1 presenter Natalie Pinkham has detailed her first-ever Formula 1 interview, which happened to be with seven-time F1 champion
Starting her career in F1 in 2011 with BBC Radio 5 before joining Sky Sports F1 in 2012—Schumacher’s final year in the sport before his retirement—Pinkham was thrown in at the deep end when she had to interview the German driver after his race ended early at the Australian Grand Prix.
the presenter opened up about her stressful experience, explaining:
“The hardest would have been Michael Schumacher. I cannot tell you how scared I was of interviewing him—it was a joke.
“That was my very, very first interview ever in Formula 1 [and it] was with Michael Schumacher. It was the Australian Grand Prix, and he finished his race prematurely.
They were just in my ear and I inadvertently grabbed him. I don’t know what the hell I was doing but I just grabbed him. I was squeezing his arm and he looked down at his arm and looked back at me to say ‘why are you touching me?’
“I was then like ‘Oh, I am so sorry’. At this point I am live. That was such a baptism of fire. It was ridiculous.”
