Name: F1賽車手世上僅20位！如何在高壓比賽下保持冷靜？訓練中什麼最重要？ Formula 1 Drivers Answer 7 Racing Questions｜GQ Taiwan
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Do you want me to sit down and say it straight away?

I'm Esteban Ocon, and I'm going to be talking to you about my experience in Formula 1.

I race because I love competition, first of all.

I love sitting in a race car and being on the limit, on the edge.

And I race because that's all I did my whole life.

I am a super competitive person, so I need to have competition in my life in anything I do.

I get to compete driving the fastest cars and racing the fastest cars in the world.

To me, there is no better life than that.

I want to be better than every other driver that I'm racing against.

I think if we had to have only one thing and one thing only, it's neck.

Everything in the car is supported very well.

I have a seat which is made for me, so it's very, very comfortable.

The only thing which is not supported is our head.

It's supported from behind, but it's not supported on the side.

So Formula 1 cars are extremely quick in the corners.

We pull 5.5, 6G, which is difficult to describe to a person that's never tried it, but it's like a jet, right?

You know, that warm-up is so important because you arrive, you're sat on the grid, those five lights are coming on, and it can be split-second decisions that make a huge difference.

So a good warm-up, getting the heart rate up, you know, not too close to the race so it has some fatigue, but close enough that you can carry that forward into that race start.

You know, one day properly training to get bogged up, and then the other day to do a bit of cardio.

It's two things that don't match together, but it's very important to be physically good all around in a Formula 1 car because you need to be reactive, you need to be strong, but you also need to have the endurance.

I would say being an athlete in general requires a lot of time, dedication, which means you've got to make sacrifices on other pleasures in life.

And if you want to be the best in your sport or even in your industry, just the amount of focus and dedication and commitment you've got to put into your work is huge.

You want me to talk about the whole thing?

I always call my parents, my parents call me.

Still, my mum always wants to hear my voice before I go and race, so that's number one.

I do some stretching, I do some quite simple things before I get in the car.

I take 15, 20 minutes, an hour before the race, and it's my way of switching off with any external source of energy.

Exhausts or pressure, I usually have a coffee right before I go to sleep, and then when I wake up 20 minutes later, I'm super switched on and feeling super strong and ready for the race.

Get a little bit of blood flowing through some movement, a little bit of adrenaline up, but not to a point where I'm actually starting to use it.

It's just prepping it, prepping it, so that by the race start, let's say firing, because the first lap of the race is the most important and most of the time the most critical part of our day.

The most important thing on race day is no distractions.

You've got to be in the zone, 110% focused on that one goal, which ultimately for all of us is to try and win.

I always jump from the right side into the cockpit.

The warm-up tends to be very similar as well.

I have a playlist also that I put during my warm-up, so always in the same order.

A few little things like this that has helped me to keep my routine, and once it works, you get the result where I keep it the same.

There are 20 Formula One drivers in the world, and I guess it's only us 20 who can really truly represent with one another because we are in this position together.

When the helmet's on, all of this disappears, and you have this warrior mindset and you have one goal, which is to go forward to attack.

If I was driving on my own, it would nowhere near be the same feeling.

There's no one really to push you to that next step, so the competition makes everything.

I mean, winning is the highest feeling you can have, but a close second is overtaking someone.

If you're able to pull off a massive overtake, it's a powerful feeling.

I think the thing which makes Formula One very competitive and very difficult and special, at all times, everyone is your competition.

There is, of course, the guy you want to beat, who is probably the champion from the previous year, but there's never one competition.

I guess maybe in this time where we are right now, it's Ferrari, but next year it might not.

Maybe it can be a Mercedes or it can be any other team.

It's definitely a bit of an alpha kind of feeling.

I wouldn't do it if the competition didn't exist.

I'm not going to give the name to all the other drivers, but I enjoy doing the races.

I've worked my whole life to get where I am today.

An aspect which I'm always trying to improve, really making a point to be completely switched on, have 100% clarity, and also a little bit of aggression and anger in the first 30, 60 seconds of the race.

That's where I want to be better than everyone, and that's what I'm working on getting better at.

To become world champion one day, so it is not one thing to improve.

It's a lot of different details that you need to get right to reach that level, but it is my ultimate target and that's what I want to be.

I think the biggest thing for me is having mistakes.

Making these mistakes allow you to learn, allow you to develop, and if you go through your career, especially as a youngster, making those mistakes, you can't learn from that, and mistakes will always happen later down the line, so not being afraid to make mistakes and learning from them, and I believe that is the best way to improve and develop your skills.

For many years, I had someone, a psychologist who I would speak to, because especially my first year of Formula One, there's so much pressure.

It can start to have quite a big impact on you as a person, so speaking to someone, opening up, seeing what you struggle with, then can really help you when you come into the races and when you need to think of so many things at the same time.

Most teams have between 500 and 1,000 people, so there's a lot of pressure on us drivers to perform and to deliver, let alone the world watching in a way, so that's a pressure in itself.

We get support from the pits and our team during the race, but ultimately, it's us behind the wheels, so you kind of have to break down all the externals and really just focus on the act, and I think use that pressure as a platform to show off, succeed, be the best.

I think if you get to a point where you can smile and laugh in those high-pressure moments, then you're two steps ahead of your competition.

There is, of course, a lot of pressure in Formula One when you are performing, when you are feeling surrounded well by the team, by your team, by the people that you care.

I think the entourage is probably the most important thing and that helps you to keep the stress level low.

There's one person who speaks to me at any time during the race.

There's one person, so he needs to know the right things to say to me sometimes because, of course, we get angry.

We have a lot of emotions when we're driving a Formula One car, so you can be happy, sad, frustrated, mad, angry, whatever.

Dealing with all of this and not letting it affect you is very important, so then also this one person who can speak to you, he needs to know the right things to say in order to make you focus, in order to make you calm, in order to make you do the best job that you can do.