"It was the biggest challenge because I had no idea how to handle that."
That was Freddie Hunt during our interview on Newstalk's Inside F1. The son of late English Formula 1 cult hero and 1976 world champion James Hunt, Freddie is a racing driver in his own right, but as he admitted he felt overwhelming pressure when he entered the world of motorsport.
However, instead of taking the F1 route, Freddie has other ambitions, namely breaking into the world of endurance racing and Le Mans 24 hours categories as he explained to us.
But he also spoke to us about the legacy of his famous father and how that affected him as he tried to break into the sport.
"To come from me being Joe Bloggs playing polo going to a race track and I'm being swarmed by fans of Dad's and photographers and people pulling me left, right and centre for interviews, I was overwhelmed by it and on the track everyone expected me to deliver especially when they'd heard about my pace in testing," he said.
"And I thought, 'Christ, I've really got to deliver. If I don't get a Top 3 finish, people are going to think I'm a w*****."
Freddie also gave his take on the 2013 movie Rush, which portrays the rivalry between Hunt senior and triple world champion Niki Lauda, stating that: "there's a couple of silly mistakes they made and they left some things out which they should have put in."
Plus he described how he and Lauda's son Mathias ended up racing together as team-mates recently, decades on from when their fathers did battle on the track.
Listen to the full interview via the Inside F1 podcast:
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