Valtteri Bottas & Guanyu Zhou ON PITSTOP PODCAST !!

Welcome back to the Pitstop Podcast!! This is hands down our most epic episode to date. We don't know how we've managed this one, but we are joined by none other than both Alfa Romeo drivers.. VALTTERI BOTTAS & GUANYU ZHOU! Our flight to Switzerland was canceled after a 5 hour wait in the airport, and we took the executive decision to drive 12 hours to Switzerland, straight to Alfa Romeo HQ, and still do it! Thanks to the guys for sitting down with us and chatting, we'll remember this one forever! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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**Episode Overview: Crash at Silverstone, Driver Experiences, and Personal Interests**

* **Crash at Silverstone:**

* Zhou Guanyu recounts his terrifying crash at the British Grand Prix, emphasizing that he remained conscious throughout the ordeal.
* He describes the helplessness of the situation, waiting for the final impact and praying for the best.
* Zhou commends the safety improvements in Formula One, particularly the halo device, which he credits with saving his life.
* He recalls switching off the engine himself, fearing a fire due to the car's backward position and leaking fluids.
* Zhou expresses gratitude for the marshals' swift response and acknowledges the importance of enhanced safety measures in the sport.

* **Early Experiences:**

* Zhou shares his initial fear of go-karting, leading him to ride with his father in a two-seater kart.
* He gradually overcame his fear and developed a love for the sport.

* **Bouncing Back:**

* Jake Boys and Fabio Bocca express their admiration for Zhou's resilience in bouncing back from the crash and returning to racing the following week.
* Zhou attributes his ability to cope with the trauma to his gradual exposure to various challenges and crashes throughout his career.

* **Personal Interests:**

* Valtteri Bottas discusses his passion for cycling, which he uses to explore new places and stay active.
* He reveals his love for good food and coffee, expressing a desire to visit Joe's hometown of Shanghai for its renowned cuisine.
* Zhou shares his interest in fashion and his desire to design his own clothing line, emphasizing the importance of expressing personal style.
* He mentions his girlfriend's involvement in designing his racing helmets, highlighting their collaborative efforts.

* **Other Topics:**

* Bottas reflects on his rookie year in Formula One, acknowledging the differences in the sport's popularity and media coverage compared to today.
* He notes the increased fan recognition he experiences, particularly in the United States, due to the popularity of Netflix's "Drive to Survive" series.
* Zhou expresses his appreciation for the support he has received from fans and the Formula One community following his crash. **Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu: Teamwork and Progress at Alfa Romeo**

In this podcast episode, Formula One drivers Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu of Alfa Romeo join hosts Jake Boys and Fabio Bocca for an engaging conversation about their experiences, teamwork, and aspirations for the season.

**Key Insights and Perspectives:**

- **Zhou's Adaptation to Formula One:** Zhou, in his rookie season, acknowledges his initial lack of experience in Formula One cars. He emphasizes the importance of learning from Bottas, a veteran driver with experience in different teams, to improve the team's performance.

- **Teamwork and Collaboration:** Both drivers recognize the significance of teamwork and collaboration in driving the team forward. They acknowledge their competitive nature as drivers but stress the need to share information, maintain a positive team spirit, and work together to motivate the team and achieve progress.

- **Performance Coaches:** Bottas and Zhou discuss the role of their performance coaches, who have accompanied them from previous teams. They highlight the challenges of integrating new coaches into the team, but appreciate the support and guidance they provide throughout the season.

- **Alfa Romeo's Progress:** The drivers express satisfaction with the progress Alfa Romeo has made this season. They acknowledge initial difficulties with reliability but are encouraged by the team's motivation and dedication to improvement.

- **Bottas Burger:** Bottas reveals the existence of a "Bottas Burger" in his hometown, Nastola, Finland. He describes it as a traditional beef burger with special sauce and other toppings, available at a local grill where he used to buy candies as a child.

**Overall Takeaway:**

Bottas and Zhou emphasize the importance of teamwork, collaboration, and continuous improvement in driving Alfa Romeo's progress this season. They acknowledge the challenges of a new driver lineup and the need to work together to motivate the team and achieve success.

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[01:04.460 -> 01:05.360] in random towns, like, hey, you're the guy from Netflix. From Netflix. Yeah, every now and then you get somebody, if I'm in the US, walking the streets, even in random towns, like
[01:05.360 -> 01:07.360] Hey, you're that guy from Netflix!
[01:07.360 -> 01:09.360] From Netflix?
[01:09.360 -> 01:11.360] Yeah, that character!
[01:11.360 -> 01:13.360] Exactly!
[01:20.000 -> 01:24.800] Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of the Pit Stop Podcast!
[01:24.800 -> 01:25.040] Thanks to everyone tuning in, listening, subscribing to another episode of the Pit Stop Podcast.
[01:28.800 -> 01:29.680] Thanks to everyone tuning in, listening, subscribing to the YouTube. We really appreciate it.
[01:29.680 -> 01:34.680] Of course, anyone who's been checking out our TikTok or our Instagram
[01:34.680 -> 01:37.560] recently will know that we've been on some travels, haven't we?
[01:37.680 -> 01:40.480] Well, yeah, it's been quite an eventful 24 hours,
[01:40.480 -> 01:42.720] but we have ended up where we said we were going to be.
[01:42.720 -> 01:44.000] And we have got the guest.
[01:44.000 -> 01:48.120] Well, we said one guest. We've actually got two so right in front of us. We told them
[01:48.120 -> 01:52.840] we had one and we have got Valtteri Bottas and Guan Yu Zhou. Thank you very much for
[01:52.840 -> 01:58.240] being here guys. Thank you for being here. It's been a crazy journey. So what's happened?
[01:58.240 -> 02:03.040] Right let's start from the beginning. You know Luton Airport in London? Yep. So we were
[02:03.040 -> 02:06.840] going from Luton and we were there at what time?
[02:06.840 -> 02:10.560] We got to Luton at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
[02:10.560 -> 02:11.560] Flight was at 6.
[02:11.560 -> 02:12.560] So like enough time.
[02:12.560 -> 02:13.560] So a while in time, yeah.
[02:13.560 -> 02:14.920] Yeah, yeah.
[02:14.920 -> 02:18.360] Go through check-in, like check all of our bags, everything's all sweet.
[02:18.360 -> 02:20.000] Get to the, where were we?
[02:20.000 -> 02:22.560] Just in like the departure lounge and then we see that it's been delayed.
[02:22.560 -> 02:25.320] So we're like, okay, we'll chill, have a few drinks, whatever.
[02:25.640 -> 02:27.000] And it's delayed, delayed, delayed.
[02:27.000 -> 02:29.160] And then it says, I think it says 8.30.
[02:29.440 -> 02:31.440] So we finally go to our gate at 8.30.
[02:31.960 -> 02:33.520] Canceled. Yeah.
[02:33.520 -> 02:35.440] So after a four hour delay, canceled.
[02:35.440 -> 02:38.280] And then obviously we had to get here because we've been telling everyone
[02:38.280 -> 02:41.200] this whole time that we had, you know, guests, everyone, drivers,
[02:41.200 -> 02:43.120] which is massive for us.
[02:43.120 -> 02:44.920] So we, flights canceled.
[02:44.920 -> 02:45.960] We looked last night,
[02:45.960 -> 02:47.820] no way of getting here.
[02:47.820 -> 02:49.700] So we literally went straight from Luton,
[02:49.700 -> 02:51.400] in the car, down to Dover.
[02:51.400 -> 02:53.160] We couldn't get our baggage for a start.
[02:53.160 -> 02:55.800] We waited for about an hour to get our bags.
[02:55.800 -> 02:57.600] Finally got them, we get out to the car
[02:57.600 -> 02:58.720] and I'm looking at Jake and we're like,
[02:58.720 -> 03:00.220] what are we gonna do?
[03:00.220 -> 03:01.720] There's no more flights that night,
[03:01.720 -> 03:07.600] there's no flights today, we're gonna have to cancel it. And we're just like, what have we dried? So we haven't slept, we've come straight here,
[03:07.600 -> 03:10.080] so we do need the coffee. That's commitment.
[03:11.600 -> 03:13.120] Thank you so much. That was worth it.
[03:13.120 -> 03:15.680] That's why we look a bit haggard by the way, if anyone's wondering.
[03:15.680 -> 03:18.160] He looks alright, just a bit more coffee. Yeah.
[03:18.160 -> 03:20.240] Trouble espresso will do that job. Yeah.
[03:20.800 -> 03:23.360] I don't know about this, it's not your coffee though.
[03:23.360 -> 03:25.200] No, unfortunately not. They don't have your coffee here, that would be great if they did. It's not your coffee though. No, unfortunately not.
[03:25.200 -> 03:27.920] They don't have your coffee here? That would be great if they did.
[03:27.920 -> 03:29.360] Do they have your gin here?
[03:29.360 -> 03:33.920] No, not yet. It's not yet in Switzerland. Eventually we'll have all of those things.
[03:33.920 -> 03:37.200] Where is it? I saw you do a post about your gin earlier. How did you get onto that?
[03:37.920 -> 03:43.840] So yeah, like gin has been my drink to go to like for a long time and with my girlfriend,
[03:45.720 -> 03:50.140] like throughout our travels, we've collected like for a long time and with my girlfriend we've like throughout our travels we've collected gin for a long time and then one day
[03:50.140 -> 03:57.280] sitting outside on the porch sipping gin tonic we decided that we want to do our
[03:57.280 -> 04:02.160] own gin so finally this year we launched after planning and starting it up for
[04:02.160 -> 04:05.680] like two years. A lot of time in a distillery then and making it perfect, I guess.
[04:05.680 -> 04:08.000] Yeah, we've been working with this distillery in Finland
[04:08.000 -> 04:09.520] and it's been really, really interesting.
[04:09.520 -> 04:12.760] And yeah, hopefully it's going to be in the UK soon.
[04:12.760 -> 04:13.600] That'd be amazing.
[04:13.600 -> 04:15.360] And Joe, I know you releasing some merch.
[04:15.360 -> 04:17.720] I was listening to your episode on-
[04:17.720 -> 04:18.560] Beyond the Grid, right?
[04:18.560 -> 04:19.380] Beyond the Grid.
[04:19.380 -> 04:20.220] I was listening to that on the way here
[04:20.220 -> 04:21.060] because we were in the car for ages.
[04:21.060 -> 04:22.160] So we listened to all the podcasts.
[04:22.160 -> 04:23.000] Every single podcast.
[04:23.000 -> 04:24.360] We should listen to everything.
[04:24.360 -> 04:25.000] Do the same questions.
[04:25.000 -> 04:27.760] Yeah, you said you were thinking about bringing out some merch at some point.
[04:27.760 -> 04:28.760] Is that happening yet?
[04:28.760 -> 04:31.760] Yeah, I mean it's not yet but of course it's coming.
[04:31.760 -> 04:37.840] Of course this month we'll be having firstly my mini helmets coming from the current F1
[04:37.840 -> 04:41.280] designs and it's good and then of course there's more coming.
[04:41.280 -> 04:43.800] I'm too far away to get anything with alcohol yet.
[04:43.800 -> 04:49.600] Yeah. there's more coming I'm too far away to get anything with alcohol yet yeah I'm more interested into like clothes sets so hopefully get some merchandise you know
[04:49.600 -> 04:54.560] not just like the fans will wear in the in the track it's something like I want
[04:54.560 -> 04:58.800] to get into like straight wears fashion wear just designing your cool ideas and
[04:58.800 -> 05:02.560] wear your own clothes is sounds pretty interesting that's cool I love that
[05:02.560 -> 05:06.440] similar to what Lewis Hamilton's just done right with this. Is it plus 44?
[05:06.440 -> 05:12.840] I think he's done like a clothing range or something. Yeah, I don't see any of that. I don't think it's out yet
[05:12.840 -> 05:14.120] I don't think it's out yet
[05:14.120 -> 05:19.460] But we want to do the same because these are actually our pit stop hoodies that we had designed and we just want to make
[05:19.460 -> 05:21.720] Like a whole clothing range out of it eventually. Yeah
[05:22.960 -> 05:27.720] Just to give you a tiny bit of backstory. We got into the four into Formula One at the end of last year
[05:27.760 -> 05:34.800] Okay, so we're like new we know stuff. We know about all your amazing history. We know that you were rookie this year
[05:34.800 -> 05:40.760] Yeah points on your debut. Absolutely unbelievable. How are you finding it out for a mayor coming in and working with Bottas?
[05:40.760 -> 05:42.760] You know, you've got such a great teammate here. Yeah
[05:43.280 -> 05:49.680] It's you know huge honor've got such a great teammate here. How do you work together? For me it's a huge honour to have Valtteri because obviously, you know, from last year in Abu Dhabi,
[05:49.680 -> 05:54.960] post-season test was the first time we actually met or talked in person and then yeah, Valtteri
[05:54.960 -> 05:59.680] being actually very supportive, helpful for my journey, especially at the beginning, you know,
[05:59.680 -> 06:06.600] when I was so nervous, like for example in Bahrain, my debut weekend and I think Valtteri clearly saw how nervous I was
[06:06.760 -> 06:10.920] Especially before the Grand Prix, you know, yeah, you're like you are one of the 20 drivers on grid
[06:10.920 -> 06:16.240] You always was watching in the past. So it's pretty sensational and to be throw back to it
[06:16.240 -> 06:20.920] but overall it's been extremely a big family together with Alpha Romeo team and
[06:21.720 -> 06:22.920] Everyone has been you know
[06:22.920 -> 06:29.080] having the same passion with what's coming and we try to always try to get better and I just very supportive
[06:29.080 -> 06:33.640] in the team and I feel a huge warmth welcomed and yeah it's been going well
[06:33.640 -> 06:37.760] so far. That's what you need, Alfa Romeo have treated us like absolute kings to
[06:37.760 -> 06:40.640] be fair since we've been working with the guys so they're definitely like the
[06:40.640 -> 06:47.440] best team on the grid to work with. I thought you were going to get a pair of jets on your face. That's what I was going to say! I don't have
[06:47.440 -> 06:52.320] one yet. I was going to say I'd have to make this run of you boys and get the jet. No yeah
[06:52.320 -> 06:56.880] we were driving over, it took a little while. Honestly I'm literally, I probably look like
[06:56.880 -> 07:01.440] a zombie right now but that's 12 hours of driving does you. But Valtteri what is it
[07:01.440 -> 07:06.320] like for you, from your side of the picture, like joining a team,
[07:06.320 -> 07:09.760] like a new team really for the first time you're at Mercedes-Benz for so long, what is it like
[07:09.760 -> 07:14.960] being a different team? It is different, you know, it's definitely quite refreshing in a way
[07:14.960 -> 07:21.440] because five years already in a single team is quite a long time in Formula One. And I think
[07:21.440 -> 07:28.000] also like the situation I was in, like within the team, for me it was really, I felt like it was Ja myös siinä, että olin joukkueessa, minusta se oli tarpeeksi.
[07:28.000 -> 07:32.000] Muutos oli tarpeeksi ja se on aika normaali elämällä.
[07:32.000 -> 07:35.000] Se on ollut todella hauskaa.
[07:35.000 -> 07:39.000] Tietenkin minun piti muuttua tavoitteeni, ainakin tämän vuoden aikana.
[07:39.000 -> 07:47.940] Mutta minulla oli aikaa menteellisesti valmistella sitä. And, but I had time to kind of mentally to prepare for that. And now actually, you know, being successful
[07:47.940 -> 07:50.040] doesn't necessarily mean just winning the race.
[07:50.040 -> 07:53.440] It might mean that we've made progress on the single area
[07:53.440 -> 07:56.860] or we can clearly see improvements here and there.
[07:56.860 -> 07:58.560] That's what gives me the satisfaction.
[07:58.560 -> 08:03.560] And because we're, I'm also like aiming for long-term,
[08:04.000 -> 08:04.960] not just for this year.
[08:04.960 -> 08:07.280] So I- Yeah, I liked it when you said down the pot that made perfect sense
[08:07.280 -> 08:10.580] Yeah, I thought the same thing like having this ability of knowing where you're gonna be
[08:10.580 -> 08:12.560] It makes so much more sense to me
[08:12.560 -> 08:14.560] I thought that would just made me perform better
[08:14.560 -> 08:18.000] You can work towards the target of you know, and you're there for that period of time
[08:18.000 -> 08:23.320] I never really thought the Formula One would even be like one year one year one year. That's the one thing I've learned
[08:23.320 -> 08:27.320] I know that's like because we are new like you just assume that people are with teams
[08:27.880 -> 08:33.820] Sort of yeah, not forever, but for a long period of time, but we didn't realize how much people move between the teams
[08:34.040 -> 08:38.040] Yeah, which is yeah, it's just crazy. It is highly competitive
[08:38.040 -> 08:42.760] Yeah, and everyone stays friends be well a lot of people stay friends between the teams, which is great as well
[08:42.760 -> 08:43.200] Yeah
[08:43.200 -> 08:46.320] because you guys know like you were you were saying in your episode,
[08:46.320 -> 08:49.120] when you know like those ZF2 drivers from working your way up,
[08:49.120 -> 08:51.360] and everyone kind of knows everyone.
[08:51.360 -> 08:52.320] Yeah, exactly.
[08:52.320 -> 08:55.840] I mean, of course, like for now, especially the recent years,
[08:55.840 -> 08:59.520] there's more like people have been racing or younger generation.
[08:59.520 -> 09:03.600] So it's like the ones you grew up like racing against them all the time, you know?
[09:03.600 -> 09:08.360] Like, let's say 10 years ago, I was was or even more that I was in karting I was like
[09:08.360 -> 09:13.320] how is it possible you know these top f1 drivers know each other so well and then
[09:13.320 -> 09:18.320] when you grow up following the normal path platinum and you realize that is
[09:18.320 -> 09:23.280] actually the kids the drivers you have been racing all the time so people like
[09:23.280 -> 09:25.640] Lando you know Mick I have been with them since time. So people like Lando, Mick,
[09:25.640 -> 09:27.880] I have been with them since karting days.
[09:27.880 -> 09:29.120] So it's crazy.
[09:29.120 -> 09:30.240] Like a little family almost.
[09:30.240 -> 09:31.080] Yeah.
[09:31.080 -> 09:33.520] And the F1 paddock is such a small circle in the end.
[09:33.520 -> 09:35.680] Like there's not that many people there
[09:35.680 -> 09:40.080] and you travel to different places as a group almost.
[09:40.080 -> 09:42.760] That's the main thing that we've noticed.
[09:42.760 -> 09:45.320] So yeah, we were in Zandvoort
[09:45.400 -> 09:48.960] and just sitting outside the Alfa Romeo motorhome.
[09:49.040 -> 09:52.080] And on the first day, we see a load of people walk past that we know.
[09:52.160 -> 09:54.760] And then the next day, it's the same people again and again.
[09:54.840 -> 09:56.560] And it is like a little community that you guys have.
[09:56.640 -> 09:59.040] So, I think it's a cool working environment.
[09:59.120 -> 10:00.360] It is, yeah. It can be.
[10:00.440 -> 10:03.320] But also, sometimes it's nice to escape that environment.
[10:03.400 -> 10:06.200] Like, when you spend such a long time with similar people then it's nice to escape that environment. When you spend like such a long time
[10:06.200 -> 10:09.560] with similar people, it's good to disconnect sometimes.
[10:09.560 -> 10:10.920] So how do you escape?
[10:10.920 -> 10:11.760] What are your other outlets?
[10:11.760 -> 10:14.000] I have a few things.
[10:14.000 -> 10:14.840] Gin.
[10:14.840 -> 10:17.200] Cycling.
[10:17.200 -> 10:18.520] Yeah, we know you love cycling.
[10:18.520 -> 10:19.400] Yeah, I love it.
[10:19.400 -> 10:21.480] And also it has become actually a way for me
[10:21.480 -> 10:24.920] to explore places much more than what I've seen before.
[10:24.920 -> 10:25.460] Like I mostly travel with my bike, so then I can like see from the race locations, So it has become actually a way for me to explore places much more than what I've seen before.
[10:25.460 -> 10:29.600] I mostly travel with my bike so then I can see from the race locations different places
[10:29.600 -> 10:30.600] and stuff.
[10:30.600 -> 10:31.600] It's pretty cool.
[10:31.600 -> 10:32.600] I love traveling.
[10:32.600 -> 10:38.160] If I have free time, like in the August break, I want to see again some new places in the
[10:38.160 -> 10:39.160] US.
[10:39.160 -> 10:43.480] I like good food and coffee and stuff like that.
[10:43.480 -> 10:45.680] And you have your house in Finland that you've been building?
[10:45.680 -> 10:46.880] It's got one bedroom?
[10:46.880 -> 10:47.520] Correct.
[10:47.520 -> 10:48.480] It's like I know everything.
[10:48.480 -> 10:49.280] I've seen the floor plan.
[10:49.280 -> 10:49.920] Correct.
[10:49.920 -> 10:50.720] No guests.
[10:50.720 -> 10:51.760] I have a question.
[10:51.760 -> 10:55.040] So you have one bedroom because you like it being private, is that right?
[10:55.040 -> 10:58.720] So if you do have people come stay, they just all go on the sofas or you get an air bed or something?
[10:58.720 -> 11:00.560] No, that was the idea, not to have guests.
[11:00.560 -> 11:01.120] No one stays.
[11:01.120 -> 11:01.840] No one stays.
[11:01.840 -> 11:04.320] You can come to my place for a coffee or a drink.
[11:04.320 -> 11:05.080] Inside the house
[11:05.080 -> 11:05.760] Yes
[11:05.760 -> 11:06.400] Overnight
[11:06.400 -> 11:07.560] You can find something else
[11:07.560 -> 11:08.360] There's a little pub
[11:08.360 -> 11:09.120] Sleep outside
[11:09.120 -> 11:09.720] Because that
[11:09.720 -> 11:10.960] Haven't been to his house yet
[11:12.480 -> 11:13.520] You can come for a coffee
[11:13.880 -> 11:16.440] But yeah, the idea with that place in northern Finland
[11:16.440 -> 11:20.000] Is so remote that it is the place to disconnect and relax
[11:20.000 -> 11:20.920] So that was the reason
[11:20.920 -> 11:23.960] Isn't it like the most northern part of Finland that you can go to as well?
[11:23.960 -> 11:24.400] Yeah
[11:24.400 -> 11:25.160] Yeah, pretty much So do you like ski or do you snowboard? Do you get, I assume you get a lot of snow up there? That's the reason. Isn't it like the most northern part of Finland that you can go to as well? Yeah.
[11:25.160 -> 11:26.160] Yeah, pretty much.
[11:26.160 -> 11:27.160] So do you like ski or do you snowboard?
[11:27.160 -> 11:28.960] I assume you get a lot of snow up there.
[11:28.960 -> 11:32.960] Yeah, huge amount of snow, like ski-doos, snowshoeing.
[11:32.960 -> 11:36.000] I do snowboarding as well a little bit, but stuff like that.
[11:36.000 -> 11:37.680] It's a really, really cool place.
[11:37.680 -> 11:38.680] Nice.
[11:38.680 -> 11:39.680] How about you, Joe?
[11:39.680 -> 11:42.080] What do you do to escape when you're not training or working?
[11:42.080 -> 11:45.000] Yeah, obviously I try to, you know, get away,
[11:45.000 -> 11:48.000] but the problem is like my real escape is probably go back home,
[11:48.000 -> 11:49.000] but that's a bit too far.
[11:49.000 -> 11:53.000] It takes a bit, you know, 11 hours or even more.
[11:53.000 -> 11:56.000] But so yeah, last few years been missing home quite a bit
[11:56.000 -> 11:58.000] because don't have the chance to go back.
[11:58.000 -> 12:02.000] But personally, I like to, you know, listen to some rap music
[12:02.000 -> 12:07.500] and I did actually some stuff myself because my sister is very into hip-hop as well.
[12:07.500 -> 12:09.000] You've got some rap tunes have you?
[12:09.000 -> 12:19.500] Yeah, but I haven't made them myself. I'm just actually singing some rap that's already been made, quite famous songs back home in Chinese.
[12:19.500 -> 12:25.880] And then I tried to do that and also going through, you know, some fashion stuff because obviously where I'm living in London,
[12:25.880 -> 12:28.000] there's a lot of fashion shows,
[12:28.000 -> 12:29.680] environment for me to do that.
[12:29.680 -> 12:31.920] Because it's, it's feel like it's a huge difference
[12:31.920 -> 12:32.920] between me and the Vulture
[12:32.920 -> 12:36.440] because he like, likes quiet, quiet place, you know.
[12:36.440 -> 12:37.280] I like to-
[12:37.280 -> 12:38.100] I like that pumping rap music.
[12:38.100 -> 12:39.400] Yeah, I like to keep it busy
[12:39.400 -> 12:41.960] because like get to F1 this year
[12:41.960 -> 12:44.680] has been extremely another step of how busy I am.
[12:44.680 -> 12:49.120] But I'm used to it because for us like coming from China you know we're walking
[12:49.120 -> 12:54.440] 24 hours 24 7 so it's like you're used to this kind of just busy road things so
[12:54.440 -> 12:58.160] it makes it's quite quite quite good sense for me so far. Is home for you
[12:58.160 -> 13:03.240] Shanghai? Yeah. I love Shanghai it's an amazing place. Yeah I mean you can get
[13:03.240 -> 13:05.280] anything day life night life everything you can think of. Yeah, I mean you can get anything. Daylife, nightlife,
[13:05.280 -> 13:08.480] everything you can think of. The nightlife is pretty good over there. That's why you
[13:08.480 -> 13:15.880] like it. You need to show me around one. I'm planning actually, if it happens in the Chinese
[13:15.880 -> 13:27.000] Grand Prix in the future, then invite Valtteri to a very spicy hotpot place. Next day he will be in the toilet.
[13:27.000 -> 13:28.280] Are you a spicy food fan?
[13:28.280 -> 13:29.280] Yeah, actually I am.
[13:29.280 -> 13:30.280] You are?
[13:30.280 -> 13:31.280] Yeah, I do. I love spice.
[13:31.280 -> 13:37.080] Yeah, because I bought a team to one of the hot pot in Montreal. Next day, like, I think
[13:37.080 -> 13:40.520] they couldn't get out the next morning.
[13:40.520 -> 13:41.520] I take the challenge.
[13:41.520 -> 13:45.680] I had a hot pot in Shanghai and I can agree. Yeah, it's pretty wild.
[13:45.680 -> 13:47.000] Yeah, it's nice.
[13:47.000 -> 13:47.840] I like it.
[13:47.840 -> 13:49.960] Did there used to be a race in China before?
[13:49.960 -> 13:50.800] Yeah, there always been.
[13:50.800 -> 13:51.640] Yeah, yeah.
[13:51.640 -> 13:52.560] It's still here.
[13:52.560 -> 13:56.200] It's been renewed the contracts three years ago into 2025.
[13:56.200 -> 13:58.360] But the problem is the last two, three years
[13:58.360 -> 13:59.800] has been the COVID restriction.
[13:59.800 -> 14:00.640] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[14:00.640 -> 14:01.480] Of course.
[14:01.480 -> 14:02.320] The last one was 2019.
[14:02.320 -> 14:03.160] Yeah.
[14:03.160 -> 14:04.160] Hopefully they get better racing.
[14:04.160 -> 14:06.000] Yeah, I mean, it's coming all together.
[14:06.000 -> 14:10.000] Last year was still 21 days quarantine, this year now they reduced to seven.
[14:10.000 -> 14:13.000] So everything hopefully, you know, get a home race.
[14:13.000 -> 14:17.000] Valtteri, do you think you like to keep it quiet now in your life
[14:17.000 -> 14:21.000] and have your time away like that because you've been doing it for longer?
[14:21.000 -> 14:24.000] Like, do you remember your rookie year and would you have been as crazy as Joe
[14:24.000 -> 14:29.120] and do all this stuff and, I don't stuff and put yourself out there a bit more? Do you hide away now because
[14:29.120 -> 14:32.000] you've done it for longer and you want the quiet space?
[14:32.000 -> 14:37.040] I think I've always kind of been the same. I think it's just where I come from and I
[14:37.040 -> 14:41.520] love nature and stuff so for me it's quite important sometimes to have quiet time. But
[14:41.520 -> 14:46.200] yeah, don't get me wrong, I also am pretty busy, but then when I have a chance,
[14:46.200 -> 14:50.040] then I do like to disconnect and to other things.
[14:50.040 -> 14:52.400] And I think I've done it from the very beginning
[14:52.400 -> 14:56.260] of my career, but for sure now with a bit more experience,
[14:56.260 -> 14:57.840] I know exactly like what works for me.
[14:57.840 -> 15:02.800] And yeah, and I remember like yesterday being a rookie
[15:02.800 -> 15:05.680] in F1 and for sure it's like you have this extra
[15:06.120 -> 15:08.120] Energy and you can almost yeah
[15:09.240 -> 15:12.760] Have you two spoke about your rookie experiences before like what it was like
[15:12.760 -> 15:18.080] I wonder how they could how they're different because the sport has changed so much in that period of time, right?
[15:18.080 -> 15:21.960] You've got drive survive. You've got so many different things that made this sport different now
[15:21.960 -> 15:26.720] Oh, the big thing that we spoke about was that no halo driving with no halo and obviously you've always
[15:26.720 -> 15:31.560] driven with a halo so yeah what are the... Well in lower F-series... Yeah we did drive actually
[15:31.560 -> 15:40.360] both even for me I drove without halo in F3. Yeah maybe not F2 but F3, F4 was out but
[15:40.360 -> 15:44.500] honestly there's no difference because one day... As a driver it's nice to have it
[15:44.500 -> 15:45.920] obviously yeah like for the safety,
[15:45.920 -> 15:49.280] but actually like visually and stuff it doesn't really change much.
[15:49.280 -> 15:50.720] It's in your blind spot, right?
[15:50.720 -> 15:53.840] Yeah, it's right in the middle, you get used to it.
[15:53.840 -> 15:56.400] Really? Wow. Even in the game when I play with it I can't...
[15:56.400 -> 15:58.560] In games it's more annoying than in real life.
[15:58.560 -> 16:00.000] It's a big difference.
[16:00.000 -> 16:03.760] Because it's right in the middle, right? But we never look straight.
[16:03.760 -> 16:06.400] We always look like 100 meters, 200 meters ahead.
[16:06.400 -> 16:06.900] Yeah.
[16:06.900 -> 16:11.120] So when you put the, I don't know if you had saw some eye camera of other drivers,
[16:11.120 -> 16:14.600] they always looked apex and when they are at apex, they're looking at the exit.
[16:14.600 -> 16:18.520] So the halo is right in the middle, which you never, you always just escape it.
[16:18.520 -> 16:22.140] Yeah, and obviously what I was saying is Drive Survivors changed the media into the sport.
[16:22.360 -> 16:24.520] You've joined and it's like a peak now.
[16:24.280 -> 16:28.560] Survivor has changed the media into the sport. You've joined and it's like a peak now. Obviously you've joined after one of the biggest things ever. The sport is
[16:28.560 -> 16:33.480] massive and when you joined Valtteri it was it was a smaller for sure like I'm
[16:33.480 -> 16:37.800] wasn't as worldwide. Do you go around the world now and are you spotted in places
[16:37.800 -> 16:40.840] that you like were never spotted before? Is it harder to find
[16:40.840 -> 16:47.000] privacy now? Yes I would say biggest difference what I've noticed with the Netflix drive to survive
[16:47.000 -> 16:48.720] is the US.
[16:48.720 -> 16:50.960] It was placed in like earlier in my career
[16:50.960 -> 16:53.600] that if I went, I could do pretty much whatever
[16:53.600 -> 16:55.320] and nobody would recognize me.
[16:55.320 -> 16:58.000] But now, yeah, every now and then you get somebody
[16:58.000 -> 17:00.240] if I'm in the US walking the streets,
[17:00.240 -> 17:01.520] even in random towns like,
[17:01.520 -> 17:03.360] hey, you're the guy from Netflix.
[17:03.360 -> 17:04.920] From Netflix?
[17:04.920 -> 17:05.800] Yeah, that character. Oh, brilliant. Yeah, I'm that character.
[17:05.800 -> 17:08.320] Yeah, exactly.
[17:08.320 -> 17:09.720] So that's happening.
[17:09.720 -> 17:12.520] And, but it is definitely changing.
[17:12.520 -> 17:14.240] And now for me this year,
[17:14.240 -> 17:17.920] if you kind of, if I get the feel of the atmosphere
[17:17.920 -> 17:20.080] at the Grand Prix and the amount of people,
[17:20.080 -> 17:21.240] it's never been so high.
[17:21.240 -> 17:23.960] Like everyone is definitely crying at the moment.
[17:23.960 -> 17:24.800] Yeah.
[17:24.800 -> 17:25.480] Sports exploded.
[17:25.480 -> 17:27.920] It made me laugh when you say that you enjoy your quiet time,
[17:27.920 -> 17:31.760] yet you drive one of the fastest, loudest cars
[17:31.760 -> 17:32.800] I've ever heard in my life.
[17:32.800 -> 17:34.520] How, this is a question for both of you,
[17:34.520 -> 17:37.760] what made you want to be a driver in the first place?
[17:37.760 -> 17:40.360] Yeah, for my side of the,
[17:40.360 -> 17:43.000] you know, I think when I was a kid,
[17:43.000 -> 17:44.800] let's say five years old,
[17:44.800 -> 17:49.680] knowing nothing about motorsport racing, China doesn't have an F1 race yet.
[17:50.000 -> 17:56.980] But I just always wanted to be in the driving seat position and just when the car stopped, obviously not
[17:57.340 -> 18:00.520] moving, I just hold the steering wheel and just virtually do that
[18:01.120 -> 18:05.560] imagination. And then my first Grand Prix I watched in 2004 it was the
[18:05.560 -> 18:09.400] first Chinese Grand Prix I saw that noise like you guys heard it for the
[18:09.400 -> 18:13.400] first time. It was so much louder. Yeah, the band was even louder you need to have a
[18:13.400 -> 18:19.080] headset to be to be avoided but it was crazy I was like okay I want to be like
[18:19.080 -> 18:22.840] like them like these F1 drivers one day so everything just come together but
[18:22.840 -> 18:26.000] then I don't realize how tough this journey
[18:26.000 -> 18:28.600] would have been, but yeah, it's great.
[18:28.600 -> 18:31.720] And from my side, the passion about racing,
[18:31.720 -> 18:35.240] or about motorsports has been always inside my DNA
[18:35.240 -> 18:37.200] since like at the very beginning.
[18:37.200 -> 18:42.200] For me, I just accidentally went to see a go-kart race.
[18:44.080 -> 18:47.440] There was a Finnish championship race on the way to...
[18:47.520 -> 18:50.960] from the small town that I'm from to the city.
[18:51.040 -> 18:54.040] So, there was a sign that there was a go-kart race.
[18:54.120 -> 18:56.400] My dad went to watch.
[18:56.480 -> 18:58.960] Apparently, I was sitting still for many hours,
[18:59.040 -> 19:03.240] which never happened in my life before. Until that point, I was five years old.
[19:03.320 -> 19:08.840] Then we went to the club the next day day but all the cars they were too big so I couldn't reach the pedals in any of
[19:08.840 -> 19:13.760] the cars so then the winter came I had to wait for the whole winter my granddad
[19:13.760 -> 19:18.040] at that time told me to eat porridge every morning so then magic could happen
[19:18.040 -> 19:21.920] and I could reach the pedals yeah and I had porridge every single morning for
[19:21.920 -> 19:27.600] the whole winter yeah and then yeah when Yeah. And then, yeah, when springtime, snow was gone,
[19:27.600 -> 19:29.240] I could fit the go-kart.
[19:29.240 -> 19:30.600] I could reach the pedals.
[19:30.600 -> 19:34.320] I had my first lap and first run.
[19:34.320 -> 19:37.040] And immediately, it was like something unreal
[19:37.040 -> 19:39.680] that I never felt before, the feeling of the speed
[19:39.680 -> 19:42.600] and being in control of a vehicle like that.
[19:42.600 -> 19:45.600] So that's when I jumped out of the car I told
[19:45.600 -> 19:47.840] everybody that I'm going to be F1 driver.
[19:47.840 -> 19:52.160] Oh wow, straight away? That's unbelievable.
[19:52.160 -> 19:56.920] So if you hadn't had that moment, what do you think you'd be doing now? Again, question
[19:56.920 -> 19:59.960] for both of you, like if you weren't a Formula One driver, where would you be?
[19:59.960 -> 20:01.280] I wanted to be a policeman.
[20:01.280 -> 20:03.280] I wanted to be a cop.
[20:03.280 -> 20:05.000] That would be cool. I wanted to be a policeman. I wanted to be a sheriff.
[20:09.000 -> 20:10.000] I think for me, I played already back then in the winters, I played ice hockey.
[20:10.000 -> 20:13.000] And still I continued in the summer driving go-karts
[20:13.000 -> 20:16.000] and winter playing ice hockey until I was like 15.
[20:17.000 -> 20:22.000] So I think I would say ice hockey would have been the sport.
[20:22.000 -> 20:25.660] I wouldn't be in any sports,
[20:25.660 -> 20:28.040] I would be like having my own brand
[20:28.040 -> 20:31.080] and then designing the fashion stuff.
[20:31.080 -> 20:32.440] So you are really into fashion then.
[20:32.440 -> 20:33.280] I love it.
[20:33.280 -> 20:36.320] And I love designing obviously Formula One or racing.
[20:36.320 -> 20:40.440] The helmet is kind of the stuff you can put your own ideas
[20:40.440 -> 20:41.760] and most of my helmets like.
[20:41.760 -> 20:42.880] How does it work with a helmet?
[20:42.880 -> 20:45.680] Do you literally get to design everything that goes on it?
[20:45.680 -> 20:49.520] Is it like yours to change and do what you want with whenever you want?
[20:49.520 -> 20:51.240] Yeah, I mean you have logos from the team.
[20:51.240 -> 20:51.760] Yeah, yeah.
[20:51.760 -> 20:53.200] You have to put it in the right position,
[20:53.200 -> 20:57.680] but then the overall view in whatever special edition you want to have
[20:57.680 -> 21:00.280] is all from your own ideas, so you can put everything together.
[21:00.280 -> 21:00.760] Wow.
[21:00.760 -> 21:04.120] And my girlfriend is designing my racing helmets.
[21:04.120 -> 21:06.000] Oh, no way! That's unbelievable. That's her. She's like a hobby designer, so it's pretty cool. That Oh no way, that's unbelievable.
[21:06.000 -> 21:08.000] She's like a hobby designer, so it's pretty cool.
[21:08.000 -> 21:09.000] That's really cool.
[21:09.000 -> 21:11.000] That's amazing, keeping it in the family. I like that.
[21:11.000 -> 21:17.000] I just want to dive into this question because it's been one that we really want to ask you.
[21:17.000 -> 21:22.000] We want to talk about the crash that you had at Silverstone, if you're happy to talk about it.
[21:22.000 -> 21:23.000] Yeah, sure.
[21:23.000 -> 21:26.000] I've been talking about it. Yeah, sure. Mainly because we'd never been to Silverstone before.
[21:26.000 -> 21:28.000] I've been talking about it for about 18 hours already.
[21:28.000 -> 21:29.000] Yeah, I'm going to pass on you really.
[21:29.000 -> 21:30.000] It's alright.
[21:30.000 -> 21:34.000] We'd never been to Silverstone before, and we'd never seen a big crash in Formula 1 at all.
[21:34.000 -> 21:35.000] Yeah.
[21:35.000 -> 21:38.000] And we were sat there, we were actually in the W Series paddock at the time,
[21:38.000 -> 21:43.000] and everyone was just staring at the screen with their mouths open and didn't know what to think or...
[21:43.000 -> 21:44.000] Yeah.
[21:44.000 -> 21:45.620] So, from your point of view,
[21:46.920 -> 21:49.320] what do you like even remember or what happened?
[21:49.320 -> 21:52.160] Like, I can't imagine in the moment what that's like.
[21:52.160 -> 21:53.860] We watch it back and there's like a halo
[21:53.860 -> 21:55.280] and a helmet scraping on along,
[21:55.280 -> 21:57.360] literally looking like a scraping on the floor.
[21:57.360 -> 21:59.000] Yeah, from my side of course,
[21:59.000 -> 22:01.040] like everything happens so quickly,
[22:01.040 -> 22:04.400] but thanksfully I actually was staying conscious.
[22:04.400 -> 22:10.540] I remember exactly what happened the whole start until I reached the fence so it
[22:10.540 -> 22:14.260] was good but then yeah when this happened everything so quick the only
[22:14.260 -> 22:17.900] thing you can do it just protect yourself as much as possible in like the
[22:17.900 -> 22:22.100] most safest solid position so of course release your hand off the steering wheel
[22:22.100 -> 22:28.480] while I was backwards I knew that there's nothing I can do anymore to recover with the car.
[22:28.480 -> 22:30.880] So it's all just waiting for the last impact.
[22:31.440 -> 22:36.080] Let's say the whole progress wasn't something nice,
[22:36.080 -> 22:40.960] especially the last like few seconds where you knew the car isn't stopping
[22:40.960 -> 22:42.640] and you are hitting something huge.
[22:43.280 -> 22:49.640] And yeah I just pray for everything will be okay so when I stopped so basically I just make sure
[22:49.640 -> 22:56.260] my legs, arms are still fine nothing was major broken it seems so yeah I
[22:56.260 -> 22:59.800] actually switched the car myself because for some reason my car was still running
[22:59.800 -> 23:07.120] with the engine and I feel something was leaking and I knew if I caught on fire, it would be not an easy situation
[23:07.120 -> 23:08.760] because I'm backwards.
[23:08.760 -> 23:11.160] So yeah, everything was fine then,
[23:11.160 -> 23:13.640] just waiting for, of course, the marshals
[23:13.640 -> 23:14.800] and they did a good job.
[23:14.800 -> 23:19.120] And as we saw, that's how important the halo
[23:19.120 -> 23:22.560] or the safety has been improved the recent years.
[23:22.560 -> 23:24.400] How did you, I remember listening to
[23:24.400 -> 23:25.840] on the Beyond the Grip when you say,
[23:25.840 -> 23:27.160] when you first got in a go-kart,
[23:27.160 -> 23:29.160] you actually went in with your dad, is that right?
[23:29.160 -> 23:30.000] And he drove?
[23:30.000 -> 23:30.840] Yeah, I was back.
[23:30.840 -> 23:32.160] You were in a two-seater,
[23:32.160 -> 23:34.120] because you didn't want to go in a go-kart on your own.
[23:34.120 -> 23:34.960] Yeah, I was scared.
[23:34.960 -> 23:35.920] You were scared.
[23:35.920 -> 23:38.000] So how do you go from that,
[23:38.000 -> 23:39.760] to then having a crash like that,
[23:39.760 -> 23:41.480] and then bouncing back the next week,
[23:41.480 -> 23:42.760] and being able to get in a car?
[23:42.760 -> 23:43.600] That was the most impressive thing.
[23:43.600 -> 23:45.880] I can't imagine doing that.
[23:45.880 -> 23:52.120] I think exactly, you know, from my side it felt quite okay because obviously from the
[23:52.120 -> 23:55.980] beginning of my career when I first started everything I felt like it was too fast for
[23:55.980 -> 24:00.440] me to control everything. I wasn't sure if I was able to control exactly what was happening
[24:00.440 -> 24:08.080] with the quick go-karts. But then yeah,, while I tried it, I loved it. And then with the career goes, gradually goes on,
[24:08.080 -> 24:10.440] you're facing quite a lot of different difficulty,
[24:10.440 -> 24:13.080] some crash as well, but let's say that was definitely
[24:13.080 -> 24:16.240] the biggest crash I ever had in a racing car
[24:16.240 -> 24:19.220] or in motorsports ever from the beginning.
[24:19.220 -> 24:22.920] But yeah, from my side, let's say that the mental strength
[24:22.920 -> 24:26.240] has been a good, or became a lot stronger in
[24:26.240 -> 24:31.640] these years so I didn't felt there was any fear to be back into it and I think
[24:31.640 -> 24:36.280] in the other hand is kind of good we have a race straight away next week
[24:36.280 -> 24:41.800] yeah because it gets you like to already forget or try to forget what's happened
[24:41.800 -> 24:45.880] in Silverstone so I haven't got time to dwell on it. It was more like in that sense.
[24:45.880 -> 24:48.320] And of course I stopped watching videos
[24:48.320 -> 24:49.720] from Sunday onwards about my crash
[24:49.720 -> 24:52.760] because it was across all over the world, you know,
[24:52.760 -> 24:53.600] internet.
[24:53.600 -> 24:55.680] So, and then I was, I was fine.
[24:55.680 -> 24:58.280] I was clear and I was happy to be back in the car.
[24:58.280 -> 24:59.960] Yeah. Came back and smashed it.
[24:59.960 -> 25:01.080] Yeah. You really did smash it.
[25:01.080 -> 25:03.360] Honestly, I think if I even pranged my golf,
[25:03.360 -> 25:04.880] I wouldn't want to go in it.
[25:04.880 -> 25:05.200] Your golf after the journey here is ruined. It's squeaking. Yeah, you really did smash it. Honestly, I think if I even pranged my Golf, I wouldn't want to go in it for the next two months.
[25:05.200 -> 25:07.080] Your Golf after the journey here is ruined.
[25:07.080 -> 25:08.440] It's squeaking.
[25:08.440 -> 25:09.280] This car is like, couldn't put up with this journey.
[25:09.280 -> 25:12.760] My Golf was meant to be serviced 300 miles ago.
[25:13.640 -> 25:14.960] And I've just driven 500 miles here
[25:14.960 -> 25:16.080] and she's done a blinding job.
[25:16.080 -> 25:16.920] So hopefully she can get herself-
[25:16.920 -> 25:17.920] Are you going to make it back?
[25:17.920 -> 25:18.760] I don't know.
[25:18.760 -> 25:19.580] I don't know.
[25:19.580 -> 25:20.420] We might need the jet.
[25:20.420 -> 25:22.120] Yeah, we're going to need the jet.
[25:23.760 -> 25:26.120] Is it true, Valtteri, there's a Bottas burger?
[25:26.560 -> 25:27.120] That is true.
[25:27.120 -> 25:27.720] It is true?
[25:27.720 -> 25:28.920] In my hometown, yeah.
[25:28.920 -> 25:31.080] So I have to go to Finland and I can get one?
[25:31.080 -> 25:31.760] Where can I get it?
[25:31.760 -> 25:34.320] Yeah, it's a town called Nastola,
[25:34.320 -> 25:36.960] which is where I was born and I'm from.
[25:36.960 -> 25:39.800] It's like, it's only one hour drive from Helsinki airport.
[25:39.800 -> 25:42.200] Did someone make it for you or did you design it?
[25:42.200 -> 25:49.040] No, actually it was like the local grill or kiosk that I used to go there as a kid to
[25:49.040 -> 25:50.920] buy candies and stuff.
[25:50.920 -> 25:56.280] And then just one, it was many many years ago, they asked could we do a burger called
[25:56.280 -> 25:57.760] Butters Burger?
[25:57.760 -> 25:59.680] And the price would be 7.7 euros.
[25:59.680 -> 26:00.680] Nice!
[26:00.680 -> 26:01.680] I like that.
[26:01.680 -> 26:02.680] And I said yeah, why not?
[26:02.680 -> 26:03.680] Apparently they are selling lots.
[26:03.680 -> 26:04.680] What's in it?
[26:04.680 -> 26:05.560] It's a... A jink. I said, yeah, why not? Apparently they're selling lots. What's in it?
[26:05.560 -> 26:06.720] It's a...
[26:06.720 -> 26:07.560] A jank.
[26:07.560 -> 26:09.840] Is that janky in the sauce?
[26:09.840 -> 26:14.680] Jank like a few coffee beans, I wish.
[26:14.680 -> 26:16.400] It's pretty traditional actually,
[26:16.400 -> 26:18.800] but it's like a proper beef burger.
[26:18.800 -> 26:22.200] Like it's not like minced, the burger itself.
[26:22.200 -> 26:24.920] It's like proper, almost like a steak.
[26:24.920 -> 26:25.700] And then some onion
[26:26.520 -> 26:28.200] tomato
[26:28.200 -> 26:30.780] And they have a really special sauce in it and stuff like that. So
[26:31.520 -> 26:33.520] I'm so hungry
[26:34.120 -> 26:40.680] Where do you two feel like you're at this season of Alfa Romeo working together like both new and new into a team
[26:41.240 -> 26:48.640] Do you feel like there's a lot more to come from Alfa Romeo this season? We went into the garage for Zanvort which was really exciting, first
[26:48.640 -> 26:52.640] time we've ever seen it, saw you both in the car, learned so much. Just wonder what
[26:52.640 -> 26:55.760] it's like like in the garage and what you guys talk about because I heard
[26:55.760 -> 26:59.400] didn't you say you have similar driving styles? I'm pretty sure, like so do
[26:59.400 -> 27:03.480] you talk about certain bits on the track and how do you work together on that?
[27:03.480 -> 27:08.520] Yeah I mean from my side of course especially at the early part of the season
[27:08.520 -> 27:13.200] it's more try to gallery what Valtteri thinks about the car because I have
[27:13.200 -> 27:17.340] lack of experience in the Formula One car and then taking his experience
[27:17.340 -> 27:22.520] obviously from other teams as well to be get the team better and we clearly see
[27:22.520 -> 27:29.720] how the team has been made a progress and I think the most satisfied things to see is the whole factory here and on
[27:29.720 -> 27:34.000] track is being super motivated with the whole new line up because normally you
[27:34.000 -> 27:38.480] know in F1 you don't get two drivers new for the season, you only keep one.
[27:38.480 -> 27:42.520] So it's been a great learning curve for me as well also I think from the team
[27:42.520 -> 27:45.440] and the Valtteri has been extremely helpful in that and
[27:45.840 -> 27:49.740] Yeah, throughout the season we are facing some difficulty at the beginning with rehability
[27:50.080 -> 27:55.860] Then we kind of had some good results for both cars. And then again now we are
[27:56.400 -> 28:03.660] We had a bit more hard moment in Zandvoort. Now we are kind of coming back. So F1 is tough. You always try to
[28:06.640 -> 28:11.160] coming back so F1 is tough you always try to picking up you know little things that can make you know just be a little bit feel tense then you're in the point
[28:11.160 -> 28:16.980] so it's... And is teamwork and working together important to you guys like
[28:16.980 -> 28:20.280] we've I've seen drivers before when they're fighting each other two
[28:20.280 -> 28:28.560] teammates what are your views on that? It's of course, yeah, you know, every driver is in Formula One because you're competitive
[28:28.560 -> 28:34.720] and your almost life goal is winning, you know, so it's natural that the teammates also
[28:34.720 -> 28:41.640] like for sure, Joe and myself, we always want to be ahead of each other because it's in
[28:41.640 -> 28:46.960] the nature of a racing driver, but at the same time, to be able to work really as a team,
[28:47.720 -> 28:51.560] to share all the information and have a good team spirit
[28:51.560 -> 28:56.400] is so important for the team in terms of if you're looking to get further
[28:56.400 -> 29:01.040] and develop the car and motivate the people around and everything.
[29:01.040 -> 29:08.680] So, yeah, you need to have that right balance of course being competitive but the main thing is to you know be able to really work
[29:08.680 -> 29:11.240] together and push the team forward together.
[29:11.240 -> 29:15.560] Did you both bring your performance coaches from before into your team now?
[29:15.560 -> 29:18.040] I did yeah. You did yeah.
[29:18.040 -> 29:19.320] I've had mine for quite a while.
[29:19.320 -> 29:20.320] A physio now?
[29:20.320 -> 29:23.840] Yeah like a physio. I just wonder because we've had a few on the pod and they talk about how they like go
[29:23.840 -> 29:28.880] and they have to learn new team as well. I find it fascinating because you take like your group kind of over
[29:28.880 -> 29:36.000] My vision is actually walk with vouching his rookie few season in Williams because he was with Felipe Massa before
[29:36.000 -> 29:40.520] Yeah, and there's like kind of just coming together and then one Massa retired
[29:40.520 -> 29:42.840] He was with me for the whole f3 f2 journey
[29:42.840 -> 29:49.880] And then now it's like we're back together like now I'm in my rookie season and he's like experienced teammates. Yeah. Well
[29:52.840 -> 29:55.400] I like how it's all a little family. It's it's perfect
[29:55.400 -> 29:55.840] Yeah
[29:55.840 -> 30:01.760] We've had performance coaches on and we just find it fascinating that they they live the life as well really and they've spent like half
[30:01.760 -> 30:03.760] A half a year away
[30:03.760 -> 30:05.000] Going everywhere and
[30:05.000 -> 30:09.960] flying places I don't know I don't know how everyone does it but if you've got
[30:09.960 -> 30:13.520] your place in Finland you can go away and you can do your fashion then I guess
[30:13.520 -> 30:18.300] you can able to separate a little bit yeah but it's an exciting rookie season
[30:18.300 -> 30:22.960] you definitely got a great team mate I guess we should let you guys go because
[30:22.960 -> 30:25.400] you've had a busy day you You've been chatting to everyone.
[30:25.400 -> 30:27.400] You've literally just come straight from something else.
[30:27.400 -> 30:30.200] I appreciate your time guys, a lot.
[30:30.200 -> 30:32.200] No, I appreciate you getting here.
[30:32.200 -> 30:32.700] Yeah.
[30:32.700 -> 30:34.700] Still impressed by the commitment.
[30:34.700 -> 30:36.700] I don't know if we're going to get home, that's the worry.
[30:36.700 -> 30:38.700] Some people would have easily given up on that.
[30:38.700 -> 30:42.700] I saw you was coming from Europe and then there was coming from UK, I was like...
[30:42.700 -> 30:43.700] Yeah.
[30:43.700 -> 30:44.700] That's crazy.
[30:44.700 -> 30:47.960] We arrived like literally 30 minutes before we were about an hour
[30:47.960 -> 30:51.760] before we did this so we were cutting it really fine yeah we actually made the
[30:51.760 -> 30:56.560] early train didn't we yeah I had to drive forward at this at the speed yeah
[30:56.560 -> 31:35.000] obviously yeah obviously to make the earlier train yeah to get over to France. I understand. But we're here. Thank you very much for talking to us. Let's definitely do it again. Powered by Spirit Studios.
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