Oscar Piastri

We look through the data traces, whether it be the mental work we do, the physical training.

I think the physical training people probably understand because people can relate to that a lot more.

But sitting in a simulator for five hours, testing different

roll bars or downforce levels and stuff.

It's very hard for people that haven't driven a race car to relate to that or, you know, trying this driving style change or whatever.

So I think it's just the amount of kind of...

in some ways, the mental effort that goes into preparing the limited physical time you have in a race car.

Yeah.

Because, you know, even on a race weekend, especially a sprint race weekend, for example, and especially with these new regulations of cars...

If you go into the session going, okay, let's see what happens and we'll go from there, you're going to be absolutely nowhere.

And you need to do that time in the simulator.

You need to discuss through different setup ideas.

You need to discuss through different driving ideas so that when you're on that track for an hour –

And I guess what people also maybe sometimes don't see is we have a one-hour practice session, but we've got two sets of tires per practice session essentially.

One of them is generally a soft tyre, which is good for one lap or two laps.

So maybe two.

So you've got all that preparation time to prepare qualifying is going into effectively, let's say, three minutes on the track.

And you've got to be so prepared and put so much effort into...

being able to do that in real time alongside trying to drive a race car at however many hundreds of kilometers an hour.

So I think that's probably the shit that no one sees.