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and confidence boosting hair. Tees and sees apply, booked today at headmasters.com. Welcome back to our 30 day countdown to the new series of F1 Beyond the Grid. There are just two weeks to go until our first new

full episode of 2024 and on day 17 I wanted to re-share an in-depth conversation with a potential world champion in the

making. He scored his first Grand Prix podium at round 17 of the 2023 season.

It is of course Australian Sensation, Australia. of the

Australian Sensation Oscar Piestry.

I chatted to Oscar Piestry. I chatted to Oscar last March

ahead of his first home race at the Australian Grand Prix.

Now, I'm not saying I'm a lucky charm,

but he did actually end up scoring his first F1 points in Melbourne.

So Oscar, you're very welcome.

Oscar tells me all about his very successful junior career. very school in the UK and playing cricket. And he also discusses the influence of

his Australian idols Mark Weber and Daniel Ricardo on his F1 dreams and how his

motorsport career actually began with remote controlled car racing and much much more.

I hope you on the show. How are things?

Very good, thank you. Very good.

And of course it's still early days, but how are you finding F1 so far?

Yeah, I've been enjoying it.

It's been exciting and obviously something I've worked towards for a very, very long time.

I think I started racing about 12 years ago now. So yeah, just enjoying it. It's been busy, but it's very cool to say I'm an F1 driver that's for sure.

Now can we throw it back and talk about your early life and how you came to be a racing driver because

when you look at the other young guns on the grid it's been all

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