Jeremy Iglesias is fast, damn he’s fast. The results of the most important international races over the last 10 years say it. And his teammates, who have been by his side in all his various experiences, which saw the French driver wearing the Intrepid, LenzoKart, Sodikart and Formula K colours, confirm it.
However, Jeremy has never won the big title, the world championship. He’s been in contention for it many times, he started more than one final in the top positions and with the right speed to bring it home, but nothing. Not even a podium. Just enough to classify him as one of those drivers who, at the moment of betting on who wins the final, you discard by default. And then Jeremy has a problem, which is called age. He’s 33 years old, which are the years of maximum strength and vigour for mere mortals, but are a sort of entrance in the last career stages for go-kart drivers. Because maybe the motivations are no longer those you had when you were 18 years old and because you find yourself fighting with people who are also 15 years younger than you and who will probably be in F1 in a few years’ time. For this reason, when October 2020 comes, Jeremy is indeed happy for being able to take part to the KZ world championship at South Garda Karting, but, at the same time, he’s a bit sad, because he knows that there will no longer be so many occasions to battle for “the race”. But in Lonato something special happens, something that you would never expect. Jeremy puts on his usual world championship weekend: fast and always in front with the best drivers. But this time he has something more. He knows it, maybe his mechanic knows it and a few other people know it. It’s a matter of fact that 20 minutes are sufficient, just the time of the final, and that “something more” he has is known by all the world.

You did everything well this year, but you won the world championship in the final and in my opinion with an overtake. That overtake there, how did it come? For the Jeremy Iglesias I know, with the overtake you had suffered, the race was over. Instead you invented your victory.

“This overtake came thanks to the old Jeremy Iglesias”, he answers, convinced. And how was Jeremy before? Simple, a perfectionist who always questions himself, as he himself admits: “I have a character for which, for example, today I’m world champion, but I don’t want to say that I know everything about everything and I have nothing more to learn. I always tell myself: ‘even when you will be eighty years old you will learn some things’. Surely within me I think that I’m the best, because otherwise I wouldn’t go on track. No one goes on track saying: ‘I’m not as good as the others’. However, I’ve always admitted my strengths and my weaknesses. And one of my weaknesses was being too kind. Furthermore, I’ve lost many races because for me the driver who won always had to be the fastest”.