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nathalie jansen Celebrity socialite Paris Hilton fits in with girls on the grid Nathalie Jansen (centre) with her colleagues Liza Junele (left) and Rachael Howard the teams and the sponsors and for companies like mine to work, and it keeps on going from strength to strength. BIG BUSINESS F1 is a global sport and you never know where or when you might do business. I once stopped for a coffee at The Manderin Oriental hotel in Knightsbridge and started talking with an Indian businessman at the bar. When I explained to him that I owned an employment agency staffing models for Formula One he told me that he “owned Formula One in India”. Assuming that he was joking, I left him my business card not really expecting to hear from him again. The next day I checked the internet and indeed Mr Sameer Gaur from Jaypee Group had constructed the F1 racetrack and brought Formula One to India – as it turns out he was in London to visit Mr Ecclestone for a meeting. I received a request the following week from him to bring a group of 20 models to India to not only assist at the track with the sales of tickets, but also to help organise the Lady Gaga concert at the grand prix after party. She really is a mega star and watching her perform live was amazing. There are so many memorable experiences from being involved in F1, but meeting her has to be up there with the best. However, that event was not without its drama. After flying 20 models and a team of five coordinators to India to work alongside Arjun Rampal (one of the best known Bollywood actors in India), we had 400 people crammed into a VIP area designed for 50 people. It was a basketball hall converted into a concert hall, so we were all nervous about it collapsing. The event itself was fine in the end, but afterward the models were the last to leave and with the location being 30 minutes away from the “IT IS IMPRESSIVE TO WITNESS THE EXPANSION OF THE SPORT TO MORE COUNTRIES” 46 FORMULA FORMULA 47
nathalie jansen Liza Junele works in front of the camera as well as behind the scenes hotel and no taxis left, we were stuck in what is a pretty dangerous area of India to be at night as woman. Then, on the side of the road stood Fernando Alonso, his manager and also Rubens Barichello. It was 4am on a Sunday, but we all decided to walk back to the hotel together, singing Spanish songs while the sun was coming up in the streets of India. It was a pretty special moment for all of us. JET-SETTING After another similar event, one of the team owners was so happy with our services working at the track for him that we were approached to come to his 30-bedroom, £15 million residence in London and organise a casting to find him a PA. We had another casting in our Kings Road office that day to select a group of grid girls for the Force India team, so we sent all of the models over after the casting to his absolutely mind-blowing residential apartment in the centre of London. At the end the team owner personally interviewed a group of blonde models to work as personal flight attendants on one of his private 767 jets. The models have all relocated to his country and are still working for him now. Over the years we have worked with a number of teams from Force India, F1 Renault and Marussia to Pirelli the tyre manufacturers. Pirelli are particularly fun to work with as they are Italians, and like all good Italians, they love food. Whenever we go to visit them we are always offered too much. One of the great things about the sport is that it is so intimate you get to know the people and “we sang spanish songs with alonso and barichello; it was a pretty special moment” FORMULA 49
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