Oscar Piastri
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I just wanted to race cars for a living.
I try and look at it from a very realistic point of view.
I knew that as long as I got close to my potential, that I could win races.
Having respect for one another and being friends with one another are two very different things.
Realistically, I probably only had to beat Lando.
Obviously, Max was back in the picture later in the year.
24 times a year, you've got to go on track and prove that you're better than him.
Um, there's a lot of elements that are just as cool as you would think.
Like, you know, when you generally take a step back and think about what I'm doing, it's pretty cool.
I'm driving the fastest cars in the world.
I think what is different, like there's a lot of behind the scenes work.
There's obviously the hard work that goes in on kind of an engineering and performance side of things.
There's obviously all the kind of marketing and media and sponsorship side of stuff as well which, you know, when you're an 11-year-old kid, you basically just jump in your go-kart, do laps and go home again and that's kind of it.
So that part is certainly different to what you, I guess, dream of as a kid but it's all part of it.
I think the other biggest difference is...
like when you're actually in the situation you have to consciously take a step back to appreciate what you're doing like when you're in the moment now I go okay I'm driving my car like I kind of ignore the fact that it's an F1 car and the fastest car in the world and I just go this is my job I'm trying to do the best job that I can like the feeling of sitting in the car and what I'm trying to achieve is the same as when I was 10 years old but
10-year-old me would be looking at that going, this is the best thing ever.
So that's probably the biggest difference is you have to consciously take that step back because once you're in F1, obviously you aim for race wins and championships, but they're not so far off in the distance.
They're kind of within touching distance.
Definitely, yes.