Welcome back to the pit stop podcast. We hope you enjoyed part one

Here we are with part two with everyone met

Kalan Nicholas the big dog Kalan Nicholas absolute legend by the way that first part was sick

I enjoyed every every single second of it

It's so cool the fact that we watch him on TV we pulled him into our flat and we had that chat with him

Amazing guy. Hope you see you again soon Kalan. We hope you enjoy part two

And we'll see you guys again on Thursday wicked

Let's roll it enjoy it

Brad was saying last year at the end of last year there was a like a bit of tension between you guys and Mercedes

I do know what I think last year

With the way it was like for me last year was so hard mentally like it's

Physically, it's it's a tuck. They're all tough seasons now, and they're only gonna get tougher physically

But I think mentally for me I spent the back half of last year

I felt like we were just being hunted week on week

You know week on week they're closing this gap and things aren't going right for us and you felt like you were being hunted

And you just constantly just trying to stay ahead and stay ahead and it was it was tough

You know it's the first time in all my time in the paddock where I struggled to sort of wind down from it

You know like normally like you can have a bad day

You know it's a bad day and you're gonna wake up the next day and you're gonna fix it

You know last year there were times where it was just so tough like even on your days off

You know like the day off you get between a double-header or even the week off you get at home last year like I was it was a real struggle to wind down and

Try and actually rest and get you know, you just yeah, it was so intense

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