Meeting with Henry. Juice Bar | 09:45 - 10:45 AM

Henry: I'm a performance engineer. That means my job is to help Oscar maximise how he interacts with the car. So that's how he drives the car in qualifying, looking at lots of data comparisons to our teammates, whether drivers around the field, understand how we can drive faster. Everything we do is through computers and IT based. There's very little that doesn't touch some sort of data analysis and kind of our day-to-day work.

Oscar: That's how I learn, looking through speed graphs, the throttle inputs, braking inputs. That's how we prepare and try and hit the ground running. Obviously the simulator itself is a massively advanced piece of technology and a lot of hard work and effort has gone into that to try and make it as realistic as possible.

Sim Session. Top Secret | 11:15 - 16:00 PM

Oscar: The simulator is the only real testing tool that we have. We're allowed to practice in real life anywhere near as much as we want. So the simulator being as close to reality as possible is the key for us.

It is very realistic in a lot of ways. The modelling, the physics behind it are very, very detailed and incredibly realistic. The g-forces are the one thing that you will never be able to replicate very well, unfortunately, but we get as close as we can. We have some motion, so we try to replicate it as best as we can.

Sim Debrief. Still Top Secret | 16:00 - 16:45 PM

Oscar: We debrief throughout the day. We've got a bunch of various different items we want to tick off, whether it be driving style things for me, car setup, new upgrades or developments, all kinds of things. So we're ticking off lots of different tasks the engineers will go away, look at some of the data and then normally we'll talk about it on the Thursday of a race weekend.

Meeting with Amir. Meeting Room 7 | 17:00 - 17:45 PM

Amir: I'm Amir, one of Oscar's performance engineers. Joined the Oscar team this year.

Oscar: So Amir is new on car 81. A bit of a baptism of fire. It's been a big regulation set but it's been settling very well.

Amir: So this is just some data for the next race. We're just talking through driving goals and what we think we need to do to approach it in the right way.

Amir: You should drive a bit faster here.

Oscar: I actually need to drive a bit slower here so I can go faster here.

Amir: He's normally quite receptive to what we're telling him because we're often telling him lots and lots of things and he's quite chilled out given there's a lot to think about.

Oscar: It's a kind of new role in some ways for Amir because of the regulation changes this year, but it's been really good. Obviously there's a team of engineers around and making sure that everyone's working together cohesively is very important right from the start.