Speaker 2
Do you think you've gone better as the cars have got quicker during your career? Do you feel more at one with the quicker the car, the better
Speaker 1
it feels? I think yes and no, I think I was probably more at home in the Formula Renault car than I was in the F3 car, but the F2 car was, it just seemed to suit me very well, I would say. So I don't know if it's necessarily the speed of the car, but I think as you go up the championships, even in carting, it was a bit of a similar trend. The quicker the car was, I seem to generally get stronger. But I think the further up you go, the more technical everything gets. You know, jump from F3 to F2, the car had much more power, was much heavier and a big difference was the carbon brakes, carbon crimp steel brakes, which was, took a little bit of getting used to, but you know, getting on top of that, getting on top of the tyre management, doing pit stops, different compounds and stuff like that, adding in all those variables, I think for me, plays to my strengths, I would say. So I think when you add in something new and the year I won Formula Renault, it was the first year of that car as well. So it was a brand new car and I think having a focus on improving the car as well as my driving is, for some reason, quite important for me and, you know, helps me, I guess, focus on what feels good with the car, how I need to drive it to extract the most out of it as well. So I think, you know, in F1, obviously the cars are constantly evolving, they're new every year and every, you know, four or five years, they're completely different with the rec's changes, so I think adding in the variables seems to help me, I would say, more than the speed.