Oscar Piastri

It would have been quite easy for her to turn around and say that but she didn't.

She let me do it and kind of...

did her best to make it work.

So I think that side of things was one thing.

But I did a race the year before in 2014, which was kind of the litmus test for basically whether my dad was going to put in the time and the money to try and give me a crack at racing in Europe.

And that race went well.

I finished third.

And then I did a few more races the following year in 2015.

which also went reasonably well, but we could kind of see that

compared to the guys that were you know i did the european championships and i think one other race and you know all the other guys all the other kids were racing every second weekend basically and you you could kind of tell that we're doing a good job for the amount of kind of effort and time we're putting in but to do it properly or you know to get ultimate success we needed to do it properly and the only way to do it properly is to commit to it and move to europe so um

For me at the time, you know, there was kind of the weighing up of, you know, I'm going to be leaving Australia, I'm going to be leaving my friends behind, you know, not being able to see my sisters in particular, not seeing my mum that much.

My dad was there for the first six months pretty much full time and then I went to boarding school after that.

So the idea of going to live at school wasn't the most appealing at 14 years old.

But I knew that...

You know, I had to weigh up, do I want to continue on this path?

Firstly, racing against the best guys in the world, which I'm really enjoying.

And, you know, at this fork in the road, either I keep doing this and kind of keep making those sacrifices or I go back to Australia and probably try and race V8 supercars.

That probably would have been the plan.

But I had the...

I guess the passion my family was supportive in in what they were supporting me both with time you know effort with with my sisters and making it work and financially as well so I kind of thought well if they're willing to to help me with this and I really want to do it then