At July’s Belgian Grand Prix, Jansen was given the “dream” alternative to DJ on the grid for the very first time earlier than the dash race after any individual else dropped out. His ordinary set, closely influenced by the needs of the Orange Military, went out of the window.
“It is fully totally different. We have now to play, actually, for the VIPs and for the drivers, so it can’t be too loud, it can’t be too overestimated, so it’s totally business and a bit bit much less tempo,” he says.
Whereas the tunes is perhaps simpler on the ears, the drivers do take discover of what Jansen is taking part in. After acting on the grid on the following race in Hungary earlier than the summer season shutdown, Jansen acquired a non-public message.
“It was Charles Leclerc, asking, ‘I heard you play these two tracks, however I can’t discover them, are you able to ship them to me?’ And he was on pole place, so he was closest to me and heard the music. It was cool.”
Zandvoort shall be one other packed weekend for Jansen, however what do the followers make of its impending departure from F1? “Properly, we see with the Orange Military, a type of a lower with the folks,” he says.
And never simply at Zandvoort. Jansen highlights the rise in tickets costs as an element for the Verstappen stands on the Purple Bull Ring not promoting out this yr. There’s additionally a difficulty, as time goes by, with the place the grandstands are situated at every observe.
“They get the identical spot yearly,” says Jansen.
“When you’re only a normal F1 fan, you may go to the primary grandstand one yr, and you then go to Flip 4, and so forth. However the Max stands, persons are all the time in the identical spot – and it isn’t all the time the most effective spot on the observe.
“So, lots of people are questioning, ‘OK, why ought to I’m going, three or 4 years in a row to see the identical type of motion?'”
