#belgian gp

“where do you feel you have taken another step forward if possible compared to the other years?” 

lando: “i think there's two things. one is just my ability to adapt to more situations, read situations better. from like how to drive these cars this year and understand the tyres, the car, the balance, drive a car that i don't like as much. you become just more capable of driving in different situations. and i think that comes with experience, that comes with just more laps, more times driving and trying different things, acknowledging different things.

but two, also just becoming more relaxed and more confident in myself. i've always been a driver who, even since i was a kid, i always had to prove things to myself for me to really believe in them. i was never the person who would wake up and believe it before i ever did it. so i wouldn't wake up in the morning and go 'today i'm gonna win the race.' i would wake up and go 'okay, i need to try and win the race today' and i'll do what i can to win the race. if i then won the race, that gives me the confidence and i'm like 'okay, i can do it again' and then i go from there.

but certainly not the opposite way around where i'm over confidence, i let myself down and then it kind of has a bad effect. so, i kind of always set myself up to fail. but then over exceed my own expectations and that's something i've almost enjoyed doing in my career and i've never let myself down because of it.

Nigel Mansell during the 1990 Belgian GP!!