""Excuse me?" I ask, slightly perplexed at the informality of the scene ahead. "I've got an interview with Alex..." At the far end of the Rodin Motorsport truck, which houses a few tables, a dozen personnel poring over data on laptops and a built-in racing simulator, the Irish teenager pops his head out, next to the makeshift cockpit. "Hi... yep let's do it.""
"And so, Alex Dunne leads me into a brightly lit meeting room opposite and closes the doors. No team representative is present with us. No time limits on the interview, either. Just a journalist and the driver, with a desk in between. It is all rather refreshing. Certainly, compared to the heavily controlled environment of the modern F1 paddock, it is like night and day."
Alex Dunne is an Irish teenage racing driver who impressed as a test driver for McLaren and is competing in Formula 2 with Rodin Motorsport. He hopes to finish the season strongly after recent successes and experiences. The paddock environment around his team is informal and low-key, with team personnel working around laptops and a racing simulator. Interviews with Dunne can be unhurried and candid, often occurring without team representatives present. The contrast between this relaxed setting and the tightly controlled Formula 1 paddock is striking.
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