Rather a distant dad, though; for most of her childhood, she saw him only three or four times a year, on his regular visits to England (where she lived with her mother, brothers and twin sister), and during the long summer holidays at the family home in Port Harcourt, where her father lived.
For my dad, though, this was it, and, the way I saw it, he should have been grateful.
"I didn't go back out in memory of my dad, though, I did it because I wanted to race," William, who was 22 at the time, tells BBC Sport.
I'm just very lucky to have him as a dad – even though I only had him as a dad for eight months".
There was a time, when I was an adolescent, when I didn't feel like I had a dad, even though he didn't live that far away, and I saw him on Sundays.
Watching old Gn'R footage and reading excerpts from Slash's autobiography makes you feel all nostalgic, like a dad going though old family photos while drinking expensive scotch at 1AM.
If you want her to think that you'll be a good dad though, grow out a nice hipster beard full facial hair got top marks in the study as an indicator of parenting ability.
And I'm not talking about lost time playing video games, or how it forces me to be a Bad Cop when I really want to be a Cool Dad (though scolding your kid for bewailing a homework assignment you're secretly bewailing is something you have to get used to).
We did get poignant looks at the mums and dads, though, their scenes hinting that home life, as per Feel, had got weird.
