Tom Clarkson

What can I do to get the most out of the car from a setup point of view, but also, you know, we've got so many things we can change on the steering wheel in terms of the diff, brake bias, engine braking, all those kind of things.

How do I get the perfect settings for me?

That one specifically is you don't have before F1.

You know, all the other things you can – it's kind of a continual process.

But really optimizing things for yourself, that's taken a little bit of time to get my head around and just how much freedom I have around that.

But all of those are quite equally weighted.

There's not been one big thing that's been the magical –

thing that's made oscar piastri better this year it's been trying to find those little bits everywhere and when you when you find that you just naturally give yourself more confidence you naturally put yourself in a position where you effectively lessen the pressure because you don't feel like you have to go and do something spectacular you just have to do the best that you can do and and trust that it's enough and i think that's been

A big thing this year is for pretty much every weekend I've gone to, I've been able to trust that if I put my best foot forward, if I get the most out of myself here, it's going to be enough to qualify and pole or win races.

And, you know, that added confidence this year is something that's really helped.

By two tenths of a second, Piastri roars past to take pole.

No dramas for Oscar Piastri.

Piastri takes the Spanish Grand Prix.

Spanish Grand Prix.

Does that epitomize all the improvements that you've talked about?

When you look at your progress from last year at that race, where I think you qualified 10th and finished 7th, and then you dominate it from the front this year.

Did that sort of sum up all the improvements that you've made?

I definitely think that's a good example, yes.

I mean, there's been a few good examples of where I felt kind of the most obvious difference from this year, but I think the interesting thing has been that for quite a lot of races this year that were tough last season have actually been my best from this year.

China is probably the best example of that.