You guys ready?

Sorry, always into the camera or...?

Yeah.

Take three, take one.

I'm George Russell.

Hi, I'm Daniel Ricciardo.

I'm Landon Harris.

My name is Pierre Gasly.

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

Why do I race?

I wish I knew.

I race because of a thrill of speed.

That adrenaline rush is just incredible.

I race because I love competition, first of all.

I race because I love speed.

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 the best driver there is.

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

And I love it.

Simple as that.

Next question.

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

It's our neck strength.

I have a strong neck.

Big neck.

Everything in the car is supported very well.

So I have the seatbelts.

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?

It's like a jet flying in the air.

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.

Any more questions?

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 like to have a little bit of a sleep.

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

It's a busy Sunday morning.

I always do like a power nap.

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.

I wouldn't get the same satisfaction.

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

I love having battles.

I love having rivals.

I love going wheel-to-wheel.

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.

It's a lot of fun.

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.

There's so many things to think about.

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 this is the most important.

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.

For me personally, it's not overthinking it and treating it like it's any other session, whether it's a practice session, a qualifying session, a day in the simulator.

I'm driving.

It's just another day driving.

I think it's all up in your head and if you overthink it and you try and overcompensate, this is when the mistakes do happen.

I wouldn't say I'm the best with advice.

There's many other things I can do better than give advice, but one thing I've learned, which is always hard to admit, is if you think you're working hard, if you think you're spending a lot of time, there's probably always going to be someone who's spending even more time and trying to work even harder than you are.

Always trying to find that little bit more, putting that little bit more effort.

It always pays off eventually.

The most important is to always believe in your dreams no matter what happens.

I've faced the same situation where people come to you and tell you like, there are only 20 drivers in Formula 1 in the entire world, so basically you've got no chance.

Even if there is 0.0001% of chance, you'll make it.

That's the mentality that I followed and it wasn't always fun to listen to these guys, but it kind of fueled me up with so much energy to prove them that, yeah, that's not the right approach.

I think you should always fight for your dreams and try to make them true.

It might not work, but at least you try and then if it works, then you end up the happiest in your life.

My advice would be just enjoy what you do if you have the chance to race in go-kart already.

It is a big chance.

A lot of drivers that I know are not able to already race in karting, so take your time if you are racing.

Just don't stress about it.

Just be yourself.

It needs to remain fun.

You need to be having fun whilst doing it and I think that is a way that you'll keep enjoying it and find ways to succeed.

You need discipline.

You need motivation, determination, all these things to try to separate you from the rest because many can do it.

Many are talented to do it.

I think if you keep it fun and really have that as the core of why you're doing it, then I think that's kind of the easiest way to succeed with it.

Keep practicing.

Work as hard as possible.

It's never enough.

If you think it's enough, it's not and you need to go above and beyond and show everybody how willing you are to succeed.

Adios!