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Vettel did well I thought to keep talking over him though, often you hear guests stop and let him speak.

I think it was an awkward interview for Seb but he handled it quite well. He managed to get across a bit of his jokey side.

I have no doubt that maybe 1% of the audience knew who he was or have heard of F1 in my experience Americans are generally only interested in things taking place in America or where Americans compete. some people ive met have had little understanding of what goes on in other parts of the world. Like I say that has been my experience from meeting people in America and chatting about regular stuff, I met someone who had no idea where Europe was and thought it was a country! not that I want to start an argument about Americans as I have some good friends from there but it was always going to be a tough interview.

I have watched us chat shows before and they never seem to let the guests talk, it makes you wonder why they go on half the time. We wouldn’t have tv like that over here but to americans it’s funny. They also seem to have a lot of running jokes and skits about people you probably haven’t heard of outside the US.

I did learn a few things I hadn’t heard about Seb’s dad being a racer and the home movie was cute! I’d like to see Seb do a chat show in the uk where he would get more of a word in edge ways!

I hope that it sparked some interest for F1 in the US which was obviously the point of the interview, maybe he should have got MSC on instead/ as well as he wanted to talk about him so much!

But I don’t think Letterman was there to promote New Jersey, that was Vettel’s job.

Well looking at it again, he does give Vettel an opening at about the 8.55 mark – and he did check his card, so obviously he’d been given some information about it. But it’s just like if an actor’s on, Letterman is obliged to maybe ask one question about their film, but he doesn’t have to focus on it.

If anyone I’d say Vettel didn’t really advertise the New Jersey race particularly well, but I guess it’s hard for him to say anything meaningful. I think he was enjoying the moment.

@ed24f1 why would Vettel even be obliged to advertise it? He was obliged to do a glory run of the circuit, not advertise it on the Letterman show.

@damonsmedley yes but in a way you could get any old f1 pundit to do that. You had a double world champion – a rare breed of the top echelon of F1 drivers – and you ask him about the menial definitions of something that isn’t even “integral” to the cars? Why not at least ask about how quick the cars corner? How the cars drive? etc. Things that are more “fundamental” to the core of F1?

Wow, Letterman is such an arsehole O.o (And I don’t apologies for the language because I’m quite sure it’s valid)

From about the big balls comment when Vettel started to take the limelight Letterman became obtusely aggressive… .. It seems very clear to me that Letterman does not like F1.

Vettel did a great job considering…
Although, I think someone with more natural flair would have been a better match for that type of show.

Yeah, to me (someone that doesn’t watch American chat shows) Letterman came off as a terrible interviewer. Seb obviously had things to say and just got cut off, then Letterman started going on about KERS (sounded like a hybrid plug) and slating DRS without bothering to let Vettel explain it. Not to mention the whole Indy vendetta, Vettel obviously agreed with him in the end just to get him to shut up about it. Why would you go on about a race that ended years ago when you have two new circuits being built specifically for F1 in the next few years?

Just terrible.