Hello everyone, welcome to the first episode of the channel

X podcast. I'm Victor Krim the host. Let’s build-up for the new beginning of

our podcast and the brand new show presented to you by Channel X

    I hope that everyone’s staying indoors

and staying safe and we have followed all the covid protocols and we were in a

bio bubble for a week and here we are for the first episode of our podcast  So, the first

guest of our podcast is a motor racing driver, he was born on 5th may, in Charlwood, Surrey, United Kingdom. Son of a former kart racing driver Rob Monger. His favourite motor racing driver is Sir Lewis Hamilton. Some of

his good friends call him Billy the Whizz.

Ladies and Gentlemen let join our

hands together and welcome Billy Monger!!

        Hey Billy, welcome to channel X podcast

         Thanks for having me here

        I hope your doing good Billy

       I’m doing good Victor. It’s good to see

you all again

       To all those who don’t know, it’s a podcast

for some of the special sportsmen and women who made their comeback into the

sport after a horrifying incident  There is only a few people who made a comeback into Formula One and they are the great Niki Lauda, Felipe Massa, Robert Kubica, Mika Hakkinen, Alex Zanardi and you Billy

Rob Monger.  Today we will get to understand Billy Monger and we are going to ask him some questions and a lot

about his motor racing career Billy Rob Monger, how

did you start your karting career and what made you fall in love with

motorsport..??

          My dad Rob Monger was a former go-kart racer and I think that racing was in my blood because I

used to watch my dad construct karts do my neighbours and my dad used to help

them in their Strategy and used to give them some good racing advice and he was

my mentor. He used to take me near the tracks that he was once a part of and

show me all the trophies that he won. My mom used to say to me that my dad used to

take his Mar in front of her house and he used to show his trophies to her

neighbours. And she even said to me that, my dad took her for a date on a

racing track the place where he won his first karting championship. My dad

arranged the date on a cockpit and it was a bit weird for my mom and the first

gift my dad gave her was a front wing.

Who gifts a front wing as a gift? Lol, man!!

 I asked my dad

about the gift, he gave to my mom and he said that he wanted to give a costly

gift so he gave her a front wing which is $300,000.

Your dad is just

insane man!!

Let’s come back to you Billy, at the age of 6 you got your first kart in guess

It was 3 then, where my dad brought me a go-kart. Not on my 6th birthday. My dad

used to say me a lot about Senna and his driving style and how he won his 3

drivers championships. I used to fight with my dad saying Michael Schumacher

and Fernando Alonso were better than Ayrton Senna. But deep down we all know

that Ayrton Senna was, is and will be the best driver of all the generation.

He’s a GOAT. And you shouldn’t expect our generation to say Senna was good. We

will say, Schumacher was best because he has won 7 championships  Lewis Hamilton has

won 7 championships.

Got to call Sir Lewis Hamilton.

At the age of 6,

you started participating in your local karting events and you have a record

over there you never finished below P3 in your entire local karting career. The

way you go wheel to wheel with your rivals is just brilliant and you like to

take the inside line and overtake him on your right side. There was not a

single guy near you on Saturday’s and we shouldn’t speak about Sunday’s if you

are on pole and you got a nickname Billy Whizz. The way you overtake your

opponent or squeeze past them in any race is pretty good.

      In 2009 you made your debut at the highest level of British Honda Cadet Karting. There were 19 participants; they are Jamie Caroline, Daniel Ticktum, Callum Ilott, Aaron Drusy, Joshua Cornwill, Dave Wooder, Jake Bartholomew, Peter Griffin, Billy Chaplin, Kyle Petrica, Robert Forsythe, Liam Murray, Jack Mitchel, Simon Carr, Tristan Charpentier, Jack Partidge, Piers Hickin and Billy Monger.

        In the like of these drivers you finished P5 overall and it was your debut season. P1 Jamie Caroline, Red bull Racing Academy’s Daniel Ticktum finished P2, P3 Luke Knott, Callum Ilott Ferrari’s reserve driver Finished P4 and P5 Billy Monger. Wow!!

     Did you imagine, at your debut season that you are going to Finish P5? It might have increased your confidence

     Ya, in 2008 when Sir Lewis Hamilton won his first drivers championship and I got some confidence by watching my idol win

    In 2010, you participated again in the Honda Cadet super one British Karting championship with ambition motorsport and what a way to win the championship. You dominated the whole championship

with your unique driving style. What would you like to say about the British karting championship?

     It was a great championship to participate in. The 2009 championship where I finished P5 It increased my confidence and my dad helped me in developing my kart from fast to super fast and they used to call me Billy Whizz, my dad’s support was always with me and some good strategies from my dad and team principal helped me in dominating the whole season.

    Dave Wooder, who finished P2 in 2010 has said that it ewes impossible to overtake you in straights and even said that you were 10 times quicker than others at turns and they were unable to cover the gap between you and others and it was impossible to stop you when it’s raining and Billy completely deserved to win the championship. Congrats Billy our next Lewis Hamilton. These were his words.

    I read them in an article and he’s a great guy to be around, he has a positive attitude with a lot of his background. Thank you, Dave

    In 2011, you made your debut outside the UK. In the WSK final cup in the 60 mini-class with Prima racing

     You were included in group A for Qualifying sessions and you didn’t give your best in the session. You qualified P12 were you could have been a bit more than P12. And you were too slow compared to your previous qualifying records.

     I was a bit nervous and was a lot slower compared to my previous races in the UK and I got qualified for the next round

     You were placed in Group D. They say that Group D is a group of death but there was not even a single person from your group who could challenge you for the title

     In your first race of the championship, you qualified P15 and you gained 9 positions in the race and finished P6 at the end of the race. It was a great comeback from you Billy after a disasters qualifying session.

    You again had a bad qualifying session. By qualifying P15 again! In the likes of Callum Ilott Ferrari’s Reserve driver who was on the podium finished P3, Robert Shwartzman Prema Formula 2 driver and Ferrari’s reserve driver finished P18 and Christian Lungaard Renault Formula 2 driver and Renault’s reserve driver finished P22 and you finished P4, you again proved your worthy and Callum Ilott took the fastest lap

     In round 3 of the championship, you qualified P15 and Hass formula, 1 driver, Nikita Mazepin.

Mazepin finished P22 and you were too good to challenge him and you finished P5

    In round 4 you didn’t have the best of you Finished P14. Even thou you finished outside the

points you got qualified for the next round

    I won’t consider myself lucky because I finished P9 in the driver's championship and got qualified for

the pre-finale

    In the Prefinal round 1, you pushed a bit hard and got qualified inP6 and in the 3rd of the grid. You took your first podium of the champ by finishing P3 and you were flying again in the corners. The gap between you and Berkay who finished in P1 was +0.061.

       In the final round, you qualified P5. Callum Ilott and Martinez Merono Eliree will start the race in the second row of the gird. Vartanyan Alexander and Bestir Berkay in the front row, a 10 lap race and you overtook everyone and won the race with ease. It was your first win outside the UK and what a way to do it and you finished 4th overall in the driver’s championship and got qualified for KF3.

In 2012-13 you got promoted to KF3 class racing against the best drivers in Europe and the UK.

The championship featured a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded drivers, aged between 14 and 17, competing in GinettaG40sthat conformed to the technical regulations for the championship. It formed part of the extensive program of support categories built up around the British Touring Car Championship centrepiece. It was the ninth Ginetta Junior Championship, and commenced on 4 April 2015 at Brands Hatch – on the circuit's Indy configuration – and concluded on 11 October 2015 at the same venue, utilising the Grand Prix circuit, after twenty races held at ten meetings, all in support of the 2015 British Touring Car Championship season.

Meetings are usually made up of two 15-minute races. The starting grids for the two races are determined by a 15-minute qualifying session. Each driver's fastest lap in this session sets their starting position for the first race, whilst their second-fastest lap sets their starting position for race two.

In, 2014 Ginetta junior championship u finished P15 overall in the championship. You were a part of Privateer for Round 1 and 2 and again for Round 4 to 8, Tollbar racing for round 3 and Total Control Racing for the last two rounds.

Round 1 was in Brands Hatch, Kent. Jack Mitchell was on the pole for the first race and second race, took the fastest lap and led every single lap and won both the races. You had a pretty bad qualifying session you qualified P22 and P17 respectively. You drive the car as a privateer and finished the race in P13 and P16 respectively.

Round 2 was in Donington Park Leicestershire Jack Mitchell was on the pole for the third race and the fourth race. He later went on to win both the races and he took the fastest lap of race 3 and Jamie Caroline took the fastest lap of race 4. You drive the car as a privateer. You finished the race in P14 and P14 respectively.

Round3 was in Thruxton circuit, Hampshire. Ben Pearson took the Pole in Race 5. Dan Zelos won the race and Jamie Caroline took the fastest lap. It was Jack Mitchell again on Pole for Race 6 and Jamie Caroline won the race and James Kellett took the fastest lap. TollBar Racing signed you for the third race and fourth race. You finished the race in P13 and Retired due to an engine issue.

Round 4 was in Oulton Park, Cheshire. Jack Mitchell was on the pole for race 7 and race8 and won both the Race. James Kellett took the fastest lap of Race 7and Race 8. You were a part of the privateer crew for both the races. You again had to join the privateer crew. You finished P11 and P9 respectively. It was your first top10 finish in the championship.

Round 5 was in Croft Circuit, North Yorkshire. Lando Norris was on the pole for the ninth race and for the tenth race. James Kellett won the ninth race and jack Mitchell took the fastest lap. Lando Norris won the tenth race and Ryan Hadfield Took the fastest lap of the race. You again had to join the privateer crew. You finished P17 and you had to retire the car after having some engine troubles.

Round 6 was in Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit, Norfolk. Lando Norris took the Pole position for the eleventh and twelfth race. James Kellett took the fastest lap and went on to win the eleventh race of the championship. Lando Norris, who was on Pole for the twelfth race, saw the chequered flag as a winner. Jack Mitchell took the fastest lap of the race. You finished P10 and P14 as a privateer and you qualified P25 in both the races.

Round 7 was in Knockhill Racing Circuit, Fife. Lando Norris took the Pole position for the 13th race led every lap of the race and won the race and he even took the fastest lap. James Kellett was on the pole for the 14th race of the championship and he dominated the whole race and won the race and he also took the fastest lap of the race. You finished P9 and P17 as a privateer

Round 8 was in Rockingham Motor Speedway, Northamptonshire. Lando Norris was on provisional Pole for the 15th race. Dan Zelos won the 15th race of the season and James Kellett took the fastest lap. James Kellett was on Pole for the 16th race and he went on to win the race and Lando Norris took the fastest lap of the race. You finished P10 and P15 as a privateer

Round 9 was in Silverstone, Northamptonshire. James Kellett was on Pole for both the races. Jack Mitchell won the first race of the round and James Kellett won the second race of the round. Senna Proctor took the fastest lap of 17th race and Jamie Caroline took the fastest lap of the 18th race. Total Control Racing signed you for the last two rounds of the season and you finished P9 and P16 respectively

Round 10 was in Brands Hatch, Kent. Lando Norris was on Pole for both the races and Jamie Caroline took the fastest lap of the first race and he overtook James Kellett in the last lap of the race and won it for your team. Lando Norris won the final race of the season and Jamie Caroline took the fastest lap. Total Control Racing signed you for the last two rounds of the season and you finished P16and P12 respectively