P1 with Matt and Tommy - Meeting F1’s biggest impressionist, Conor Moore!

Episode Date: April 11, 2023

What do you do when all the drivers are away? Speak to the man who can impersonate them all, that’s what! Matt sits down with F1’s biggest impressionist, Conor Moore, for our first EVER guest edition of the pod! Follow us on socials! You can find us on Twitter, Instagram, Twitch, YouTube and TikTok.***Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello, everybody and welcome back to the P-1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. However, without Tommy, because Tommy's gone on holiday and left me on my lonesome, which means I had to get some kind of special guest on during this weird month break, after only three races, still trying to get used to that. So, without further ado, with the fact that we're all missing the drivers, I thought, what better than to get someone that can literally do all of them? Connor Moore Connor welcome

my name is Conor Moore Brickley or Ferrari so I wasn't going to say straight out the bat do a voice

because I know that's literally probably your entire life whenever you step out of your of your house but

Carlos Sines hit it with the strong one yeah I hit always start off with the best yeah

the best foot forward as they say yeah well thanks for having me Matt if I knew we were just

in it if I knew Tommy wasn't going to be here I would have spent the last week or two practicing them

so that it just felt is. Don't worry. It's all good. Tommy, I'm sure we'll actually be glad that you're not doing an impression of him because I might well replace him if it's good enough. So, so yeah, how are you? Welcome. Are you a big F1 fan?

I have to admit that I was a fan when I was a kid. Eddie Jordan, Eddie Irvine, like back in the late 90s, kind of early 2000s. And then in Ireland, they kind of just went off the airwaves then. The lads were gone. That was it. So I didn't really watch it for years. And then how I got into this was guess what TV show led me to this.

I think it begins with D. It begins with D and ends with Ive to survive. Yeah, it was during COVID and all my wife's mates were, and they're not really, I wouldn't consider them like overly sporty or anything. And they started talking about the Grand Prix and I was like, who the hell talks about the Grand Prix? Like, what's all this Formula One talk? And then they explained to me about Drive to Survive.

So I went home that evening, we watched three episodes. And literally, at the end of the third episode, I think it might have been the Monte Carlo episode. I just looked at my wife and I'm like, I'm doing this. This is like what golf was a couple of years ago. And now, like, am I a big F1 fan? I'm huge. Like, it isn't like I'm just doing it like I'm doing the voices or whatever.

Like, I always tell people like, I can't actually do a sport unless I love the sport because then it's just like hard work. it's like I won't like and it won't be as good because it'll be hard for me to listen to podcast it'll be hard for me to like follow what's going on if I'm not interested in it so yeah I'm an absolute manic f1 fan now well this is the thing right it it takes a lot of time for you to hone a voice an impression it's not just the voice either of course you do sketches on on instagram corner underscore sketches if you're wondering where to find him and yeah it's everything it's the mannerisms you try and do every final

detail. I bet you've watched the same clips of people far too many times that it's almost burned into your brain. Oh, it's incredibly born. Do you know who I was actually doing this morning? It's my first day looking at him. Well, Bernie, the old F1 boss, Bernie X.

And I was looking at him this morning and I was like, geez, he is definitely such a good character to do. But like it'll take me a long time to get him. Some people think, oh, like, you know, I can just pick somebody up and oh, do this fella and that fella. And that it's kind of natural and it's not like that at all really.

But yeah, it can take me like, Toto's taking me such a long time. I'm still working on him. And the dog as well? That's fine. Look, it's almost like Tommy's not gone because it's usually Frank in the background barking away. Is that your dog or is that a neighbor's dog? That's my dog. Do you want me to go down and just put him outside?

Because I don't know what he's barking. It's okay. What dog is it? He's a cockapoo. Well, either put him outside or bring him in. We don't really mind here. We love dogs on this podcast. This is Emma.

Here we go. What's his name? Arthur. I named them after Arthur Gilles. Yes, we've still got, I think this could be a running theme. You're, of course, our first ever guest on P1, but maybe it's like a criteria that they have to have a dog that barks during the podcast in order for it to feel right, you know.

But yes, I guess moving swiftly back onto Formula One. So you've got your back into it after driving. to survive, would you consider yourself a neutral or have you got a particular team or driver? Because we're quite biased here. I'm a big Charles LeClair fan. Tommy's a big Max Verstappan fan. Where do your allegiances lie? It's weird. After I was like Red Bull and then I went to the Austin Grand Prix and Mercedes were so good to me and then I was in the Mercedes. So whoever's good to you. Whoever treats me well.

It's the same actually in football and it's the same in golf. Because when I work in it, for me, I feel like I'm a bit of a journalist. I'm looking for storylines. So like I wanted Max to win the championship two years ago. Like everybody, you wanted to see something to change. Would I love to see Lewis win it right now? Absolutely. You'd be just like, absolutely.

You know, so I'm always just, I'm very neutral. I'm very neutral with soccer, golf, Formula One. I don't really have favourites. I'm just looking for the best story for me. And the crazier the story is and the better it is, or the more mundane it is, the worse it is for me. It's quite similar for us, really, because on one hand, I'm a big Charlotte Clair fan.

On the other hand, I just want to see a great race, great drama, and just have a great close championship season. So Australia was a great example of that where we do our Twitch live stream watchalongs and for the race. And you've got both the Mercedes getting past for Stappen at the start. so I'm absolutely buzzing. And then in the background, I see Charlotte Clark going backwards

into a gravel trap. So my brain is going, is this, what's going on? Is this good or bad? So I was trying to process it live. And people quite enjoyed that. But yeah,

I'm exactly the same. If you have a decent race, it's enjoyable. Unless you are at hardcore, back in the day, I was a Michael Schumacher fanboy. And when I was growing up, if he was out the race,

I'd turn off. But now, as you get older, you go, actually, just like the race, you know, and a close fight for first would be lovely. Yeah, that's what I find

kind of astonishing with, not astonishing, but like what's brilliant about it is like even like watching the race is like the last race. You're like, it's over, you know, or not the last race, sorry, Australia, not the one before was a Jeddah.

It was over after two minutes. You knew Max was going to win unless like something like, you know, a safety car, red flag or something came out. But then you're looking at like fifth and sixth or third and fourth. And you're looking at Alonzo and Lewis going at it

it's like even though like our Williams scored a point and it's huge like it's very hard to replicate that in any other sport

like and I'm a big golf fan and soccer fan but like you know if the game is over after a few minutes you forget about

a golf tournament if someone's leading it no one cares who came third four fifth to sixth or some guy got a top 10 like just it's irrelevant

but in Formula 1 like it it's actually interesting to see you know if has score points Ganta will fuck everybody in the paddock it's fucking a

I'm enjoying how you're integrating the voices rather than me going, do this one now, do this one. It's great. It's really good. And that's the thing as well. I guess on one side, yeah, you have these underdog teams that you just want to see do well. And also, I guess, it activates our imagination slightly where we go, well, let's just pretend Max is so far down the road. He just doesn't exist right now. And it is actually Hamilton and Alonzo for the win. And then you think about how that would actually be. And yeah, there's going to be plenty more where that came from, hopefully, with Hamilton and Alonzo. I just love those two going back and forward.

It's just all the little snide comments. It's just amazing, isn't it? I'm working on Fernando at the minute, like I'm trying to get up. I've used them before I would be usually comfortable using them. You know, I feel it's really good to get the race out there. I feel like before the bid Lewis. You know, and I kind of have to work a little bit more on him, but I'm loving the whole

just he's the number one driver at Aston Martin at the minute and obviously he's got Lance and Lawrence and that he is now the favourite son and all this like I have so many ideas. Your Lawrence is amazing by the way

like your Lawrence stroll but sometimes it's good and sometimes like it's my voice if I if I've eaten or something or whatever I need quite a deep voice for him so my voice has to be very clear and I can't do anything so if I'm doing Lawrence

but I just love the glasses of the hair you have 15 minutes of my time please hurry up Matt okay I can't wait I actually I was hoping I would have met him he's the fella I just love to meet he had like at a Grand Prix when I was there in Austin

I seen some chopper coming in and someone said it was him coming in or something but he's definitely one I want to see yeah he's gonna be load of content between him Lance Fernando just in that team it's like and it's great to see another team challenging the big three as well, you know, so someone else is coming in and like,

well, in fairness now, McLarenmore are too far off, but they've obviously dropped this year. Yeah. I'm still absolutely convinced that when we get to the cost cap totting up of who spent what, I just feel like Lawrence Strahl spent $5 billion more than everyone else just to see Fernando at the front, just so that we can have a bit of fun, you can get loads of trophies. Oh, at the end, oh, well, we'll get a penalty, it's fine, but. A little bit of wind tunnel time to take off. Oh, we left it on. Sorry.

No, we left the wind tunnel on that. We didn't actually use it. I would love to see Lawrence's reaction to you doing an impression of him, especially with the wig on, because some of these outfits that you have are quite out there and obviously quite visually hilarious. And just to see how he would react to that. Would he hire a hitman to just delete you from existence?

Would he take you in as one of his own? Would you be driving in Formula One in a few years? Who knows? Give me a chair. I don't know. Or a seat, I should say. Yeah, no, I don't know what, sometimes I kind of find with some people that are very relaxed

and everything else, they can be a little bit like, oh, I don't know if they like that. And then the guys, the real hard asses that you think are really, like people you wouldn't mess with. Usually, from my experience, I'm obviously doing this a few years in different sports, usually them lads love it. They love a bit of it. Really? Yeah.

It would be the one example. It doesn't even have to be Formula One, where you were kind of surprised that they liked it. surprised that they liked it a lot of it I suppose in golf like Tiger Woods absolutely loved it and everyone was like oh he he definitely won't like that kind of thing

you know I've heard like Joseph Reno when he like he really really enjoyed it and then I recently heard that Roy Keen has seen a couple of the videos and he quite enjoys it so that was like and he's he's the toughest character you can possibly get isn't it how is that for you I suppose

because you're a big football, golf fan, to then be meeting Tiger Woods or to be meeting these people that you've watched on television and of course, you're honing your craft, you love doing it. But to actually do it in front of them must be such a surreal experience. Yeah, the only good thing about doing it in front of them is that like, it's not like I randomly bumped into them and I'm doing it in front of them because that would be a little bit like, oh, geez, I hope this goes okay. But anytime it's ever happened, they've agreed to be there to do it. So that actually, kind of just alleviates any sort of fears that they might not like it because if they didn't like

it they wouldn't show up or they would just say I'm not doing that I don't want to do that or whatever and like I remember the day I got the I got a tweet of Bridgettong Golf saying hey we have this opportunity we'd like to talk to you about and my brother was like I wonder what that's about and I don't know what I'm going to get some free golf balls anyway it turned out to be a bloody ad with Tiger Woods no I still got the golf balls thank God um but it was insane and then they said I said have you told asked Tiger about this they were like No, we haven't broached it with him yet, but we will, and we know in about three days.

And that evening, they came back and they were like, now, Tiger's up for it. He'd love to do it, blah, blah, blah. So it kind of, for me, that just relaxes me going in there because I'm like, well, they already kind of, they must like it, like, because he definitely wouldn't do it if he didn't do it. It was like Carlos as well when I met him at,

when I met him at the Austin Grand Prix, where he just came down. And I want to hear, I want to hear your voice. What do you sound like? He's incredible, I think. And he was like, which is your favorite one to do? I was kind of going, are you? No, well, mine is definitely the funniest time.

It's like, it was such a good, because on the skypad, wasn't it? They had Ann Davidson interviewing as if you were Carlos. And then, because the Carlos voice is so unique and so distinct, isn't it? How long did it take for you to master that one? What? Maybe three or four minutes or something like that. That always one of them. sometimes it can just pop out.

And then other times it's like, the two that kind of were really fast. I was sitting with my wife watching it. And I just turned to her and this is where I got this line from. I was like, my name is Carlos Seitz. I'm a driver with Ferrari. And she's like,

oh my God, that is amazing. And she's kind of like a tough critic. Like she's always like, I don't know, I can't really hear that one. Blah, blah, blah. So she's always really honest.

And she was like, you know when it's good. She was like, that's amazing. And I will say, Carlos, there is a little twin. of Kermit the Frog in that voice.

Someone said this to me recently. They're like, hey, German. So a lot of people have that kind of voice or what they can do it. So like it was kind of, yeah, he just came to me. And then Daniel came to me pretty quick as well. Oh, my God. It's amazing, you know, to get out there. It was a tough year, but hopefully I'll be back, you know.

I just have the raged man right now where he's just, he's trying to like, I don't know. knock off Max and Checo to take the seat. I love those skits where it was a sandwich, wasn't it? And then it's brilliant. Because he, of course, doesn't look like a psychopath when he's laughing around and chatting. But if you just add that tiny bit of just evil into him, all of a sudden his whole character changes, isn't it?

It's been a lie all this time. He's a complete cycle behind it all. I just knew it. Have you met him? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I met him at the Austin Grand Prix. as well. That was one where I randomly met him.

So I was nervy. So when he came over, I was like, oh, whatever. And I was kind of just joking. I was being sarcastic. I was like, oh, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, you know, joking with him. He's like, oh, mate, don't apologize. It's great. You know, and I was like, all right, oh, see you later. Whenever I walk off then it. And I don't say, oh, see you later.

Best a look. And then he goes, yeah, yeah, slice shit about me again and see what happens. That's where I got that kind of idea, where he threatened me. And then he just goes, I was like He's just like Daniel is we've been lucky enough

to film with him over the years but he is honestly like just he is what you what you see is what you get with him right even off camera

I think he's even more mental because he can say whatever he wants and I love how you've kind of incorporated that into into some skits because that's the part as well

it's not just learning the mannerisms and the voice it's also putting them into skits where Formula 1 fans I guess it's not like oh Daniel Ocano would try and poison Max

just happen, but it's in a, in a, the whole story of it, right? And knowing where he's been dropped and so on, it's, it all just kind of adds together into this really nice scene. What I like to think is like, obviously all the sketches are like BS, you know what I mean? It's like again, I have so many ideas of, for Daniel, for him to do stuff to Max and to Checo over the next couple of weeks, which I will do. But it's obviously silly stuff. But in my head, it's like, this is what I would love, drive to survive to come out with you just find out all this stuff is in the wackiest world possible imagine if this stuff was

kind of real and that's where I kind of am like oh yeah maybe that will that there is a sketch of a succession sketch in my head for maybe Red Bull or Aston Martin I'm thinking like Logan Roy and so yeah not just and for me a lot of people go on about like

the impressions are like funnyish you know they're funny the first time and everybody gets their first video like always does really well whether it's golf or whatever do and but it's after that then it's like all right where's the content this has to be a lot better than just doing the voices and stuff because people get fairly sick and that fairly quick i kind i kind of think yeah it's a good it's a good point it's like i don't know why it came into my head but when someone does something really unique on britain's got talent for example and then they go

through to the next round and you're like well what are you going to do now because we've seen that yeah and and i guess it's changing the the scenes or the skits and and that's where you know you do a great job, not just with Formula One, but with football and golf, it's great to watch. So how many voices can you do in Formula One? How many of the grid have you got locked in? How many of the grid have I locked in? I'm here on my computer right now. I want to see if this is open.

I have a little list. I literally have a list of golfers, Formula One guys. Formula One, at the minute that I would say I'm one, two, three, four, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirty, of about fifteen. Of the grid. Not of the grid, sorry. Of the best, like just general Formula One. Team principles will.

I mean, this is the best Formula One podcast I've ever been on. That is actually so good as well. Like that is top notch. Did that take a while? A bit like, and I definitely think I could even. can get it a bit better. And I remember throwing him in, but he was such a big part of Drive to Survive. And he's after setting the tone for even like this new full swing thing with golf,

they brought in a couple of reporters into that like journalists. And they tell you the really obvious stuff. So for me like when I was watching the Drive to Survive stuff at the start, like I didn't notice the obvious stuff that he was doing. You know, but like I do notice in golf because I know it so well. And I'm a bit like, Jesus, like, I know that. I know what the code is. I know what whatever is.

But then. You want to get it in the hole. Yeah, yeah. And then so after the, yeah, first or second season, then I realized I was like, oh, yeah, he kind of just tells you the really, really obvious stuff. And then you see all the memes. So many memes. Yeah.

So many memes. I've met him and stuff. And he is the nicest guy ever. Yeah. And he's such a legend. Like, you know, I've had a drink with him over in America. yeah. I was actually supposed to meet him there a couple of weeks ago in New York, but I ended up having a flight

to Florida. We never met up, but yeah, he's been a great one. Like, Kimmy has just left, and I actually, just this morning I was writing the kind of thing. I'm thinking about doing like a radio Kimmy thing. Yeah. It's going to be a radio show, and it's just Kimmy. And he's just there with the glasses on. I got afternoon, you're welcome to Radio Kimi.

We're talking all things for a Milam. Man. And then just have the boys ringing in. That's so good. Complaining. And so yeah. It's kind of just trying to use whoever I can use, whenever I can use them. I think Kimmy is one of those that will always just be in the hearts of Formula One fans, even though he's gone. People will still appreciate an impression from him because he, I mean,

the fact that you would actually speak more than what he would speak anyway is great. So we feel like we're getting more Kimmy, even though it's not him. Yeah, it's like that psychology thing, one-on-one. You know, when you like a girl, she doesn't like you, you like her more. It's obviously, Kimmy just doesn't want anything to do when anybody in form. Formula One, but everybody in Formula One just loves him because he just doesn't care. It's like, just leave me alone. It's amazing.

Yeah, literally, I mean, that's what he's asked many times for him to be left alone. So what do you think is your best impression of the lot in Formula One? Is it Carlos Seines? I would have to say it is definitely Carlos Seins, the driver with Ferrari. I think Max is not too bad either. Max can be good. Still needs maybe a little bit of work. Working on Checo.

Who else? Horner. I think your horn is really good. Well, that's it. You know, it is obviously, you know, we've got a lot of penalties this year. It's very difficult. I think Daniel, he may try to kill Checo this year. Listen, we're prepared for any eventuality, you know, and that's it.

I met him a couple of weeks ago, and I met Max and that at a gig for Red Bull there before Christmas, and it was great. Did you do the, the horror impression to him? I did it in front of everybody. I just did it. It was like, during the season party. I had no idea what I was going over to it. I thought like when I heard it was their end of season party that it was a sit down dinner.

It was the end of year. It was all the engineers and all these people, whatever, that run the show for them. But it was actually like their entire UK workforce at this venue at the O2. And England were just after losing the France in the World Cup. And then I had a couple of gags about them losing. And then I walk in and I realize like it's a lot of young people and I'm like, I'm Irish. you know, I could be taking a big huge risk, taking the piss out of England,

getting knocked out of the World Cup. So I left all those jokes aside. And it was like those people with glow sticks. It was kind of the craziest gig ever. It was just like... How many people were there then? I'd say there must have been a thousand people there or whatever. Like it was just packed.

And then after I finished, Christian and Max came onto the stage. And we shook hands. It was very professional. Max was like, that's very good. Well done. that sounds very max yeah and then that was it yeah uh and they were just backstage or whatever like and just chatting to all them and and check on that check was just such a legend like what

a nice guy like really yeah he's he's solid so i love how you actually thought it was a did was that quite a quick shift that you had to make mentally to be like oh okay well hold on there's a there's a lot more people than i expected yeah like everything is about the room and i would like if you go into a room like that, you got to be a lot more high energy. And the kind of gig that I prepared for was a lot more of like sit down kind of interview thing. And while if I kind of knew it was like that, you'd probably go in there with a little bit more a song or two. I'm actually like making a couple of songs at the minute. You know those like head swaps that they do. But I have, I've got a Ferrari team meeting where Carlos, I don't want to give way too much. Carlos and Shards are

coming out. And you know, Elton John's song. song, don't go breaking my heart. Yeah. So they're singing to the Ferrari guys. You're like, please stop breaking my car. I love that. I love that. So yeah, I have a couple of spice numbers in my head as well.

Nice. So when can we expect to see those? The Ferrari one, I'm hoping next week, just before Baku. Yeah, no, definitely. Otherwise then, you never know. They might turn things around and then I can't. I wouldn't think that they would sort it out anytime soon if my heart has anything.

go by. Do you have like a team of people that you work with then to get that sort of sorted? How much do you manage yourself? I do an awful lot of it myself. Like sometimes too much. I do have a guy that works with me, Gary, that I used to when I started working in

Joe.coma.ukau. Yes. I started out there and I worked very closely with him. So he kind of knows it's very hard to cut comedy, edit comedy and do things like that. So Gary kind of knows me best. So he does, and he's a genius of doing stuff like that. So he does a, he cuts a lot of the videos and, and he kind of does the magic in him,

you know, like to be posters behind me and stuff like that, that wouldn't be mind making. That'd be him coming in with that type of stuff. And so yeah, we're just trying to get like more, because I really, of all the games that I'm in, like, I love golf. I've been in a few years and Formula One is the one I really want to focus on this year and I want to just pump out loads of good content, but different content. I want to, like, I'd be the first person to say, oh, you're getting boring. Not like some troll on

Twitter or something. I'd be like, all right, is that getting a bit repetitive? Am I doing the same thing? Even sometimes you can do the same thing, but once it looks different and it's done in a different setting or context, even that can be enough.

But so yeah, at the minute I'm just trying to brainstorm and make sure I've, because I've learned a lot, obviously, doing golf and soccer over the years and try and kind of do the best job I can in Formula One.

Well, thankfully, the storyline changes quite a lot, doesn't it? So you can put quite a bit of context into your sketches and your scenes. And I guess that keeps it fresh enough, right, for the time being. And then until you have to completely swap the way you do things. Yeah, yeah, big, big time. But like soccer, for example, is getting just so hard. Because it's hard to follow it.

Because I need to follow everything that's happening. And in soccer, there could be like three or four big games at a weekend. Each of them are like two hours or something long. Golf then is four days and it's like, to be fair, not a whole lot happens. And when they lose, they're like, oh, you know, well done to Matt who bet me there. And, you know, he's a credit and he's a gentleman and blah, blah, blah, blah. But Formula One, it's like, you know, I know you got like practice, but you've got like qualifying on Saturday.

Not much happens. You just find out what way they're going to line up on the grate. And then Sunday, all bets are off. The tension is high. And then when people lose, they're like pissed off and they'll say anything. and the team principals will say stuff to each other and stuff like that. So for me, it couldn't be a better game to be in.

I would say it's the most fruitful when it comes to content, it's the best one to be in. It's just so... And this, Ian Poulter told me this like three years ago. I was doing a gig in his house and he's like, mate, you need to do Formula One. It's amazing.

I mean, it's just... It's like golf, except they really go at it. You know what I mean? And if they lose, they're going to attack each other, everything. It's amazing. And I was kind of like,

yeah, yeah, yeah. But I kind of gave them that should be a little. that night. I was like, I just have to be interested in it. If I'm not interested in it, well then I just don't want to go in there. And only because I'd drive to survive and then, like I would say, it's probably the sport I'd most follow now. I would fall through. Really? Wow. That's, yeah, because Ian's a big F1 nut. He was involved in a lot of the COVID virtual Grand Prix gaming stuff. And yeah, it's funny how he spoke to you and you and you weren't ready then, but now look at you. I know. I actually want to,

I was, who was I talking recently? I'm going to get myself, I'm building the house and I'm going to get myself a sim, an F1 sim. Yeah. I got to just start doing that. Racing people as Carlos, racing people as Max, just like getting the headphones in, abusing everybody. I'm definitely doing it.

That would be amazing. Have you seen nowadays on TikTok and Instagram there are these crazy AI voices? Have you seen much of that? It's insane. Ridiculous. Like, they could put me out of a job. No, surely not. No one has that.

You can't, as much as it's like, oh my God, that's crazy. It's an AI. So there's almost that immediate sort of, at least for me, that turn off of, that's not a person doing it, though. Well, I suppose, yeah. And it's like doing the faces and doing different things. It's like even that, I'm actually, me and Gary are actually kind of drawn up a bit of an animation at the minute, like to maybe do some like a two minute sketch right after a race.

It'll take us a day or two to get it out, but it could be just a brief summary of the race. You know the way F1 put out like the seven minutes like of the race, the highlights? Yeah. Two minutes due to two commentators, do then lads in the end up, animated like and just have a kind of like,

well, if you miss the race, here's what happened. Have you tried doing Crofty as an impression? It's light out and away we go. Max mustappen around the inside. It's all right. I have to still work on it. And then I did Martin Brundle there over at the open.

Martin Brundle, I, like, I did it on, for Sky. I don't know if you've seen that where I went around. That was actually my next question was to tell me about that shoot because it looked pretty hilarious to film. They were the coolest bunch of people. Like, I'd rocked over. I had a problem. I was after doing three nights of gigging in Ireland, three live shows, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

And on the Sunday night in the second half of the gig, my voice was kind of going and I was doing McGregor and I was like I realized I was like you know it was kind of turned into Katie Taylor I was like you know what I'm saying you know me McGregers kind of like what's super we swear to God I'd slop the face of the whole paddock and all of a sudden I was standing up there was like you know what I'm saying well so I'm stuck the wise all paddock and I was like I consider then I woke up in the morning I was talking to like Andy like looks after all this stuff like organizing up the sky and stuff and I'm like my voice ain't great man and I was like my Martin Brundle isn't the best impression anyway

And I'm like, now it's like, I bit like rough. I like, you know, I didn't want to go over and let them down. But thankfully, the Sky team were so good at what they were doing and just so, they were like, here, what do you need us to do? Every one of them were just brilliant. Like, they were just such a laugh. And, but, yeah, like, we did this. Like, my Martin, I couldn't get over how well it was received. Because for me, I'm like, I don't think it was the best impression in the world.

And that's been generous to me. self. And so when I put it out, I was a little bit like, and I don't really read comments too often anymore. Like I'm at it too long kind of to be at that. So I usually throw it out and that's it. But like if it's for somebody else and it's important, like, and I was doing it with sky, I do look at the comments and I was looking at them and everybody loved it. And this one guy was like, my God, is Martin Brundle is shit. And usually you're like, oh, he's a troll. But I was looking at that going, that guy spot on. it was you kind of like sleep typing you're just telling yourself that yeah I was like but it it was just

and then martin coming in doing what he did ted everyone and we're all just brilliant like I like it was it was a laugh doing it you know yeah it looked it it very much from the get go just looked like they all took you in and just said yeah well as you say we'll help you anyway any which way you want, we'll do little sketches here and there, rather than them just all sat in a room and you're doing something a little bit more awkward, the fact that they all got involved was amazing. And then Martin at the end is just, yeah, it was just like the cherry on the, on the top of the cake. Oh, brilliant. That's such a legend, you know. I did the impression too, and we kind of looked at me. He was like, hmm, it's a bit cockney. I think all my impressions are

a bit cockney. But it's one, yeah, I have to kind of, I want to do it a bit better because I'll be at someone at Grand Prix and I'd love to go. go on the, I'd love to go on the grid and actually do Martin on the grid. Oh my God, that would be incredible. Imagine me going just trying to piss him off. Martin, Martin, Martin, Martin. Martin. It's gone, Ronald. It's going to want. I would love, I mean, whoever you'd need to take out for dinner to sign that off,

get it, get it sorted because I think it would go down a storm. But I can just imagine all the F1 drivers trying to get in to the zone. And then you're dressed up in this crazy Martin Brundall, like, outfit or something, it would be, it would almost be, yeah, a bit of a fever dream for them, I think. Oh, yeah, no, it would be great one. I just want to make sure I work on the impression a bit more. I was like going to, I'm at Monaco for the Grand Prix, yes, next month, the end of the next month. So, yeah, I can't wait for that. It's amazing. It's almost like you've seen the stuff I want to talk about because you've

segued into the Sky HQ stuff. My next thing was, is there anything exciting you've got lined up with F1 this year? So you've got Monaco, anything else? I've got Miami, Monaco, and then, no, a lot of it does, like, I've got gigs in these places, so I'm just over there and then you get, like, tickets or whatever, but it's not actually with F1. But, yeah, just that. Like, I've been that busy the last couple of weeks with different things. I'm looking to kind of just calm it down a little bit and just kind of do a bit more golf and F1 and focus on doing them and getting content out and YouTube and stuff like that and making content when I get over there.

But, yeah, I have no idea what to expect. in Monaco. I've got like of a hotel in Nice. People are telling me like if they say it's like 20 minutes away but they're like, oh no, during the Grand Prix it's going to be like two hours away. Yeah, good luck. Yeah, good luck. Everyone stays in Nice unless you can seriously afford

it, which not a lot of people can. Yeah, yeah, things aren't that good for me either. But now, I mean, in Monaco will be mega. I've been lucky enough to go a few years ago in 20, I think it was 17 or 18, but it was only for the Friday. But yeah, just Just seeing and hearing the cars around Monaco is just an experience that you just can't,

you can't imagine it until you hear it because it just echoes around everywhere. Oh, and this was my thing. When I went to Austin, I just wasn't expecting. Like, I was going there and it was all like pretty businesslike and I was going over. I was going over to get this content and stuff and I was very focused on that. And then on the Sunday, like we walked the grid and why. the race and stuff and it was one of the best things I've ever seen the noise the smell everything I was completely blown away by how much I enjoyed it and how much

I like like I felt I was nearly I was sitting on a couch after the race I'm not messing I was there with my wife I was getting emotional I was like how do we end up I was like was this not the best thing we've ever been at it was just incredible and I didn't think I would take to this much but being there just it made me fall in love I spent the winter then watching documentaries and the history of everyone reading books and everything. It's just been like, I really fall in love to. Yeah, once you get the F1 bug, you ain't leaving any time soon. I don't think it might take maybe 10 years of domination for some people to turn away.

For example, when Mercedes were winning a lot, a lot of people turned off. But I think, yeah, it's amazing to see Formula One at the stage that it is now where it is viable for you to make content out of. because when we first started all the way back in 2017, me and Tommy, it was a niche thing to have an F1 YouTube channel to talk about Formula One. And you'd still have friends that have no idea, you know, oh, formula, oh, it's just circles, in it, mate. Like, you know, it's just a bit boring, isn't it? It's just, you know, straight to the flag whoever wins.

Now, all of them are going, oh, just watch Drive to Survive, season five, absolutely loving it. Tell me more about it. Where can I get Silverstone tickets, Matt? No, no, if you were here in 2017, maybe. Not now. Don't come to us now. That is so, so true.

Even like, I noticed, like, I've got a bar over in New York. And, you know, you'd be there. And, like, if I'm walking through New York, the odd times someone might spot you in, it's usually golf. And I've been over the last two times I've been there. Like, the amount of times I've got noticed has increased. Now, don't. I'm not like what, like Brad did everything. think and but like I'm just so shocked that anybody that stops me now it's like F1 so which which are the

biggest clips have got uh have happened for you in in F1 that people go oh you're that guy from who did the blah blah blah impression there's not really one particular clip because all the videos like have all kind of they've all went into like seven figures between now all the different channels and stuff um but usually I get carlos like people just come up to me about Carlos and they've seen that bit like and then the Mercedes bit I get quite a good uh you know plenty people mentioned that to me about their toto and george thing and oh click can you do a bit of george because that is amazing well when you do george um you know if you're listening to this and you're not watching it you can't see the eyes they're just you're staring piercing

through mat you know and that's it so uh but very excited i really think uh you know we didn't give up this year not until the second lap of the first race and then we really Max were going to win the championship, but whatever. It's amazing. It's the eyes, I think, as well. It's actually piercing. But then you also go, yeah, no, George does look kind of like that

when he's being interviewed. It's only sometimes. Yeah. When he's talking and when he's in a good mood, like when something good happens to him, I'm always like, is he like about a second or two way from bursting into tears or something? It's like he's, I'm just watching it.

And then he's not. I realize he's not. It's just whatever way he kind of looks and talks. But yeah, no, he was a legend. He, like, Toto, legend, like, I... Yeah, because of course you did that skip with him, didn't you? You had the, was it the helmet on? And then he comes in the room.

What was that whole filming experience like? It was a bit crazy because I was told I was... Would you believe Ferrari had come and they were like, hey, Carlos is available at 11 o'clock here for 15 minutes. Like, you know, if you want to do something. And I'm standing there going, sorry, I'm actually doing some Mercedes. Like what me.

You have better hospitality and then my team this week. No, you see, it was a raid for so long and this thing with Ferrari, I'm like, is there any chance like we could do that like maybe after? And they're like, no, he's not around after. And I was like, oh, I knew the car loss one would be just so good because he's like one of the best impressions I have.

But they're like, maybe we'll do it tomorrow. And I'm like, all right, yeah. And then I get down there. And Mercedes, I had sent him over a couple of like, they says, we want to do something, but it's got to be quick. It's got to be short. And I'm like, perfect.

One minute, like something really simple. I wrote like six or seven little mini sketches and I was like there and they hadn't told me which one they wanted so I landed down there on the Friday and I'm like you know I've been asking back and forth to the guys at F1 I'm like which one is it that we're doing

and they're like oh yeah yeah yeah we're going to do one of them I'm like you know but I would like to know because like I want to make sure I'm ready and I get in there and your man's like you know Toto and George they're not actors all right you know your man's like they're not actors mate so you go go do the heavy lifting you know I mean

you just go to do it in, get out, you've got half an hour, then I had 20 minutes, then I had 10 minutes where Toto had a Zoom or something to do. And he might as like, you know, so just now Toto doesn't act, you know what I mean? So you got to do, I walk in then and who's sitting there only Brad Pitt in the hospitality?

And I'm like, has Toto brought Brad Pitt into L? Is that? So we get into it around, then they're like, oh, you only got 10 minutes now because Toto has this important Zoom like, you know, whatever it was, 12 o'clock. And I was like, all right, whatever, like you couldn't say at it. And then Toto I think just cancelled it, came in, sat down, absolute legend. Loved it, George came in and it was just the easiest thing in the world.

We literally done it in about 10 minutes. Amazing. One take, one take, bang, bang, bang, and we were out. Was it ready one takes just for all of it? Literally, I think we might have done maybe two takes for Toto with the helmet off. I was like, say it to me a little. I was like, say it to me a little bit slower and just kind of look at me more serious. Even he's like, take the helmet off.

Boy, he was like, both brilliant, man. He was just laughing away. He was like, whatever you want me to say, just telling me. I was like, all right. Yeah, and again, it came across that way, didn't it? It was, it was brilliant to watch. And I hope we get to see more of those this season, whether with Mercedes or with other teams.

I love how Ferrari are literally just casually like, Hey, Conner, a year round. That doesn't happen, okay? Ferrari don't come to other people. So I hope you know how privileged of a position you're in Ghana. Oh, my God. God, and even when I was like, is there any chance to see me there tomorrow? And they're like, oh, we'll see.

And then they're like, yeah, yeah, he'll be around tomorrow. We'll come down to the sky cart. It's 12 o'clock or something. And that was it. And I was like, it's unbelievable. It really is amazing. And I couldn't get over as well when you, like, I don't know if you've done this, but you know when you've paddock tickets, like they just walked by you.

The guy's just walked by you. Like, it's like, you know, it's no big deal. It's like, oh, there's Max. Like even when Max, I met Max, I met Max in the paddock. I just turned around and I was like, oh hey, he was just right there. He's like, oh, hey, you're that guy. I was like, yeah, yeah. He's like, oh, cool.

They brought you out there, yeah? I'm just like the most random conversation ever. And like Carlos walked by me. I remember Fernando Alonzo walked by me and I remember just been a bit stunned by his, his facial definition. He looked at the way that you could just beat an iron off his head and he just wouldn't even flinch. His bone structure was just like of this tough, you know, just. so defined or something.

And then the only guy I have to say when he walked by you that you did feel like you're like, oh, like everybody walks by and it's like you'd barely kind of notice them. But like obviously you do notice them. But when Lewis walks by, it's like, oh. Like an oar, isn't it? There's an aura. There's something there. And even I would be have no problem walking up to all 19 guys in the paddock going, oh, hey, I'm Connor. But with Lewis, I was just like, I'm, I was looking that way.

I'm so grateful for you, Lewis, and that's it. The Lewis one's good as well. The Lewis one's really good. What's your next, what's your next one to conquer that you haven't yet? This morning I was, or not this morning, yeah, I was saying I was working on Bernie, and then I'm still working on Toto to get him a bit better because, like, I just need to get him better. And then with regards like doing a new guy, who was I? So I feel like the biggest, when I think of all the voices, I know you've done small bits of him, but

Charles Lecler must have one of the, the hardest voices to actually try and emulate. Yeah, it's, and I struggle with it. I obviously like make fun of it, like, where I'm like, guys, I told you, I cannot do it, you know, whatever. But he's got one of those strange voices that for me, when you listen to it, you're like, oh, I can easily do that one. And then you're like, oh, I can't. You're like, yeah.

And then the French accent is like. like it's kind of tough. It, it, the more exaggerated it is, the better, you know, but his isn't like, that's strong.

You know, it's, yeah, it's a struggle. He's another than one that I kind of just have to get done. I'm kind of just working on guys I have attempted before at the minute,

just to get them a bit better because, like, obviously the better you can do them. And then I often find, like, if you listen to the voice, listen to the voice, and then you're like, I've got the voice.

Then just watch the videos, turn the sound off, and then you get the other bits of them. so yeah Landstrol is not one I really want to get have you got Lando I did Lando before I did George

but then when I did George I found like Lando was like very it's quite a like the way they speak and then you get lost when you're doing one it was like do you know with Graham McDowell and golf

yes yeah and you got Rory McElroy so I would have been doing GMA first and GMA GAC kind of talks like that he's Northern Irish he's got some a kind of a little bit of Florida there.

And then Rory, when I started doing Rory, then I was like, yeah, you know, I think, you know, when, you know, Rory's living in, you know, American eye and he's sounding a little bit more American. Sometimes, like, I could be doing one. And I'm like, oh, shit, I'm not doing Rory, I'm doing G-MAC. And I just think, like, yeah. Like that, yeah.

It's fascinating. It really is. To say, we've had you for much longer than I actually expected, so I apologize for dissecting your brain on the impression scene. But just before we go, I want you to predict who is going to be well champion this year, although I have a feeling that your answer will be what I'm thinking, but in their voice as if they're accepting a championship trophy or something like that. I think Hulk is going to win a championship,

and he's going to fuck the entire paddock when he does it, okay? I think I would say that in Baku, I don't think it would be too stupid to just hand me the championship and let me just go from there, because I think if you just have a championship, let me go home. You can have good races. The rest of them can race,

and I can just go home with the championship because it's a foregone conclusion unless Checo tries to do something. But I think Daniel is going to try to kill Checo, so I have no problem there. That is amazing. Thank you so much, Connor. If you're wondering where to find, Connor,

it's Connor underscore sketches on social media. Are you on YouTube as well? You are, Connor? Yeah, Connor Moore on YouTube. I've several different. With one N-O-R. So yeah, look Connor up, and you will not be disappointed, trust me.

Thank you, Connor, for your time. And we'll catch up at some point later in the year maybe. Definitely, man. Honour to come on. Thanks a million. Big fan.

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