Tom Clarkson

So what exactly did he work on last winter to become a better driver in 2025?

Before I got back to the team, it was what can I do outside of a race car that's going to help me when I'm in the race car?

And when you can't be with the team and you're on holiday, the only real thing you can do is relax and improve your fitness.

So trying to do that was an important thing for me.

And then once I got back to Europe and back with the team, the kind of conclusion we had was I needed a little bit more pace overall.

And if I could find that, then it would make things easier in qualifying and

It would make things easier in race pace and ultimately managing tires.

It would just make everything easier.

But it's one thing kind of identifying that you need to go faster.

And the next thing is how you go about it.

Then it's just going into all the incredibly small details of from a driving technique point of view, what can I do or what can I adapt to improve?

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.