Oscar Piastri

I think...

Yeah, for me, I take a lot of joy and happiness from being able to drive race cars for a living and fortunate enough to be in a competitive team, fighting for wins, podiums, championships.

That's the kind of stuff that you've always dreamed of as a racing driver.

Like you said, it doesn't come for free, especially if you're not from Europe.

You've got that added step of moving to Europe at some point.

For me, that came at the age of 14.

It was pretty early to be making that decision.

I think that was a good thing in some ways because,

I was young, naive of kind of, you know, as far as I knew, I was going overseas to go and race the best guys in the world and that was, you know, that sounded awesome to me.

But then, yeah, once you kind of look back on it, yeah, it's a pretty tough decision to make, you know, not being able to see your family very regularly.

You know, even now I go back home for...

couple of weeks a year over Christmas.

So you know it's in that in those how long it's been now 10 years I've probably spent in total

seven or eight months seeing my family away from a racetrack.

You know, I've seen them at the racetrack, but it's a bit different when you're at a racetrack versus just relaxing at home.

So there's definitely decisions you have to make along the way.

But at the end of the day, I decided that I wanted to be an F1 driver and that I was willing to give up certain things to make that happen.

And I'm certainly glad that I was able to accomplish that.

But

Yeah, I'm pretty happy driving race cars.