“This is the great challenge that all F1 pilot faces”

Many F1 fans will be shallucinating if they see the list of activities that every ‘great circus’ pilot is lying on the wall of his hospitality, with twelve -two things to do on any day of the great prize. His day was divided not for many hours, but within minutes. And the list is endless.

It’s not just about voting. They have meetings with engineers, working with Physio, training, it should be added a lot of promises. 10 minutes here with the written press. Another 5 minutes with this television. Another 5 ‘with another. Recording a video for social networks around here, is now another and a gesture of 2, 3 or more hours with a sponsor at the end of the day, when everything seems to have ended. And all this, in your mind put on the track, knowing you won’t be disappointed.

Every minute is counted. In fact, many fans do not know that when this humble journalist sits before an F1 pilot to conduct an interview exclusivelyOn any Thursday of the Grand Prize, Usually it is only 10 minutes to ask twelve -mental questions. Most of them remained in a lack of time. And that is when Stopwatch marked 9’59 “, the head of the press for the talk to bring his athlete to the table next to him to do another interview, which re -places the stopwatch in zero, or in another gesture marking a tight pilot schedule, again, with time marked in the second.

During the day -to -day life of an F1 pilot, until you get up to sign autograph on the paddock it is an important time that can oppose it within the maelstrom of things to do with a big prize. Therefore, in most cases, they sign as they walk the other way, without standing, or making it more confined before the day begins, before placing their eyes on the endless list of things to do.

With the presentation of the F1 calendar of 2026, consisting of 24 races a year, two of them in Spain, with the massive interests of many places to renew or add to ‘great circus’, inevitably think about whether more appointments in an F1 seemed to reach its limit for logistics and staff. And to them, we should also add to their pilots. More importantly, after the pilot made by the Mercedes pilot, George Russell, in a recent interview with World Deportivo.

In it, the English is opened from PAR to talk about a problem that affects all pilots: Time management in a gpSomething that can drain them into thinking to the point of feeling just “free” when they ride in the car to conduct a training session.

“I like a lot of careers, but less than anything else”

“If I choose, I would like to have 30 calendar races. If my work consists only of competing, in voting, I will enjoy running 30 races a year. The problem is that they are not just a career”He announced in this newspaper last week in Barcelona.

“I flew on Thursday morning and I had an event with a sponsor. Another sponsor event on Friday night. I had a sponsor event on Saturday night. You have interviews all over the weekend. On Sunday there are activities with team members. That’s the most tiring part.

“When we get in the car is when we’re free. It’s when I’m itself. I’m free to the noise of everything around me. That’s my space. No one is disturbing me. I’m here to do what I like most. That’s what makes F1 so special. Without the fans, the F1 doesn’t have. But if I am sincere, my conversation with you does not make me faster. In the best case, I’m the same. Or maybe it needs energy and makes me slower“, He pointed out, well, with a lot of education, despite open recognition and looking into our eyes, that an interview took the preparation time for his single goal: flying on the track.

“I did an act of 6 hours of sponsorship on Thursday. Do I make it faster? No. Bring money to the team. It brings me money to me. But now when you need to find a balance. That’s the big challenge. Because you can’t appreciate how much it will take you. The team knows that on a day of sponsorship receives X value money. But I can’t tell you if going to that event makes it slower or 0.001, “he added.

And explained this: “Since I’m not practicing. I’m not resting. I’m not in the simulator. It takes me as I can allocate to vote faster.”

“This is the big challenge that all pilots face at this time. That’s why I want to run more races, but less than other things,” he added in a mirror In general support of all the pilots within a career -filled calendar, with incessant travel and groups of two and three consecutive quotes that drain all the staff, also the pilots, though their work can be seen as the most fun. Pilotar is. But many more.