THOMB: From A Controller On His Bed... To Driving An Actual Formula 1 Car

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But then I got an email.
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Congratulations, you qualified for F4.
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I'm like, what's going on, man?
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My day is made, my year is made, my flipping life is made.
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Max Verstappen.
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Actually, he overtook me around the outside.
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And he started last and I started Peter N.
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And he won the race.
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Hello everyone and welcome to Titan Talks, a podcast where we connect sim racing enthusiasts just like you to people within the industry.
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From content creators to business owners or stim racers who are moving towards real-world competition.
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You can get to know them, you can understand how they broke into their motorsport world and learn what helped them to stand out in their field.
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They smashed their stim racing goals, and their advice might just help you in your stim racing journey as well.
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Whether that be personally or professionally, today's guest, our first ever guest, is someone very special.
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He began streaming the F1 game from his bedroom while studying at university.
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And somehow this has led him to driving a real Formula One car on track at Paul Ricard.
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You'll find out more a little bit later.
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He's built up a staggering 124,000 subscribers on YouTube and a pretty similar number over on Twitch as well.
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He's become an F1 consultant for Track Titan earlier this year, and he joins us here today in the studio to fill in the pieces as to how he went from a cockpit in his bedroom to a real life F1 cockpit.
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I hope you all thoroughly enjoy this episode with the legend, and that is Tom Brown.
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I'm doing amazing.
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I'm uh really looking forward to having a bit of a chit-chat, talk about everything I've done, and uh talk about what we're doing with Trek Titan as well.
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So uh yeah, can't wait, can't wait.
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Starting off, generally, your channel name.
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Yeah.
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Now your name is Tom, but your channel name is Tom with a B.
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Now, is that anything to do with thumbs?
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Or can you go up to my collection?
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Every time somebody mentions my thumbs, I have to explain that I got a hammered thumb right there.
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My left thumb uh I always have to explain how did that get about like that?
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Uh is that why you uh you're flipping good your name?
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Uh no, it's not.
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No, it's not, but uh I always say I settled my tongue when I was when I was young, but uh I did not, just to just to be clear.
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No, my first name is Tom T H O M, and then my last name starts with a B.
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So I we always say Tom, you know?
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Not like Tomb from the Tomb Raider, just Tom.
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Okay.
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There's a lot of there's a lot of misconception about the name, but uh no tombs, no thumbs.
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Exactly.
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Just Tom.
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Yeah.
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Okay, cool.
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And obviously, you are very well known in and amongst the sim racing space, but especially the Formula One sim racing space.
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Has that always been the focus for you, the F1 game?
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Has that always been the thing that's brought you the most excitement?
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I started out watching racing because um, well, my parents got me into it.
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In fact, they were actually super big F1 fans for like a long, long time.
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When I wasn't even alive, they did watch alongs, not uh not on social media, but but in their homes with friends.
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Uh they actually organized those.
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Um, and then since Mac Verstappen came back to Formula One, obviously I'm Dutch, you might be able to hear it already in my voice a bit.
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But um I got back into to watching F1 for the first time.
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My parents got back into it, and uh yeah, I kind of uh got super I got bit by the bug.
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Yeah.
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I uh I actually participated in a in a little giveaway which was quite funny of the Abu Dhabi circuit, and of course I ended up winning it, which is pretty crazy.
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And back then I wasn't actually doing any content or anything like that.
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So I went to the Grand Prix with my dad for the very first time in 2016 of all of all years with Nico Rosberg.
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Yeah.
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Um and then he won the flipping championship.
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I mean, spoiler alert, won the championship.
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It was 10 years ago.
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True, true.
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You got that you got enough time now to but um yeah, I got there and and then I mean I got I got bit by the bug.
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I uh I watched every single race, and then at some point I decided to well to uh to do a bit of content.
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Okay, well we get we're sort of getting into that initial startup then of how you got into Formula One.
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So parents are the ones that have sort of uh solidified that you've caught the bug and you're involved.
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But then, of course, with the gaming side, how did that transition?
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Was what which was your first Formula One game?
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I think it's my first question.
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Uh in fact, uh right along that time as well.
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Okay.
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Uh I've always been a gamer, always been a gamer, but not racing games as well, back in the day, like Ground Turismo, all those kind of games on the PlayStation 3, even uh Xbox 360 back in the day, uh playing uh the games that my dad had on this on his console.
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So I've always been a gamer, but I've not really been a racing kind of gamer only from the very start.
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But then when we got into Formula One together with my parents, I started doing a bit more uh F1 since 2015 was my first game, F1.
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Um and then I got a wheel, I had split it with my dad back then.
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Like I always get the question, oh Tom, uh how do you get to where you are?
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And then I always have to explain.
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I started out the exact same way as everybody else with a controller, and then I got my first wheel.
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In fact, I I had to split it with my dad because I didn't have enough money for for the wheel yet.
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You know, I was like 15-16 years old, I was uh still in school and uh working a little, not even working to be honest.
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So um yeah, I got into that, and then as I progressed, every year I got the F1 game, and yeah, uh in 2019 it really started as a hobby to be able to go and go live as well.
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Okay.
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And you mentioned as well, getting on towards 2019 was when you then started sort of creating some content around racing as well.
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But how did that start?
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Because I know people in sort of around our age range, that was when all content was all starting to come up, and you sort of thought I could I could get involved and do this.
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Why did you decide to go down the route of Formula One and sim racing content rather than say beauty vlogs or something like that?
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Well, thank you very much for considering for the beauty vlogs.
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I appreciate it, I appreciate it.
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Um well, basically I did some Formula One gaming myself, right?
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Racing, and I saw on Twitch there was a live streamer from South Africa, his name was Wesa, um, and I joined in, he was doing online races, and as a viewer, you could join in to those online races.
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So I was like, you know, I'll give it a try.
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There was a around August 2019, around that time.
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I'll give it a try, join in, have some fun racing while I'm in the chat laughing at him or or overtaking him.
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Ah, I overtook you, like all that kind of stuff.
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And uh at some point I was like, because I've always been a guy that I was that annoying guy in in in school that that enjoyed the pre doing presentations.
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Okay.
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You know, like uh everybody was like nervous, and I was like, oh no, I'm looking forward, let's put on a show, you know.
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So I was like, maybe I can do it a bit differently, maybe I can do some bring something new, but it was never intended to be become my full-time job in the end, which uh which it now is.
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But so yeah, I just started out doing some live streams, it was really, really easy going, and then slowly but surely, especially because like you said, it was kind of the start, there was not a lot of people doing it yet, especially on the F1 uh game, but also on auto racing games.
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So it started growing and growing, and slowly but surely I could cancel my side job cleaning cars and uh filling the supermarkets up, as everybody almost has done in their life at some point.
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And then it kind of started my to be my full-time job, but I didn't earn a lot a lot yet because I was still studying, I was doing uh marketing studies on the side.
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Um so it was kind of perfect timing for me to try that out.
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Perfect.
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Right, we're gonna move on.
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We're gonna carry on with your career.
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Of course, to a uh a pretty big moment in in your career when uh a certain Formula One jumped into your live stream chat and we're encouraging you to check your DMs.
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Yeah.
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Let's give a bit more information on that story.
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That was a while ago, to be honest.
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That was uh 2020, yeah.
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I was just you're just sitting on live and suddenly they pop up.
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To be honest, so much has happened.
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So much has happened that sometimes I forget what I've done, you know.
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Uh but yeah, that was 2020, I believe.
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Yes.
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I was doing, I was still, it was still very early days.
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I was doing live shows, um, you know, entertaining the viewers, and then all of a sudden I got an email.
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And that email was Tom, do you want the would you like to go and try to qualify for F1 esports?
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I'm like, well, what's going on here?
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Somebody's trying to troll me or something, uh trying to make fun of me.
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Exactly.
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Click this link and you can qualify for F1 Esports.
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I was like, you know what, let's click it.
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Let's click it.
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Luckily, it wasn't a link.
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But uh but the problem is I only had two to three days to be able to qualify.
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And it was an event, it was a it was an invite-only event, but there was a lot of people invited and only quick people, obviously.
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Yeah.
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And they had a week.
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I only had two days or three days, something like that.
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So I was going in the middle of the night, and I was honestly not not really an esports driver back then.
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I was just having fun, I wasn't slow, I just put off all the assists in the F1 game.
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Okay.
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So it was I was I was I was still brand new, right?
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It was 2020.
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Uh I got a little bit under under under my hand with uh how much I've played the game, but uh qualifying for F4 Esports being in the top two times, that wasn't gonna be very easy.
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So I went until the middle of the night, I put my time in, and then two days later I was like, I'm not gonna get an email back, and and they're not gonna tell me Tom, you you qualified or something like that, because it was supposed to be a pro draft where the fastest 30 drivers would be qualified to go to London in the G Finity Arena, I think it was called, to go and race against each other to get picked by the F1 teams.
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So there was a pick per team.
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Uh so then you you'd still have to go do a good job to get picked.
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Okay.
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But yeah, I was like, I'm not gonna get I'm not gonna get it.
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But then I got an email, congratulations! You qualified for F1 e Sports.
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I'm like, What's going on, man?
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My day is made, my year is made, my flippin' life is made, what's going on?
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So I qualified.
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So when you were saying those laps, you had no idea what anyone else was doing in terms of lap time.
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You just sort of like, that's a uh that's my best lap, there you go.
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No, and I wasn't involved in the in the F1 esports community back then either.
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I've watched F1 esports since the very start.
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Uh, when it came out, 2017, I believe, was the first season.
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Brendan Lee won.
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I I know I know all of it.
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And nowadays I I have very good contact with those guys as well.
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Um But that meant I had to go to London to go and race against each other.
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Unfortunately, that didn't happen because of all the lockdown and all that stuff, but that meant we had to do interviews and I did one interview, one team wanted to have me, or at least maybe try to see if I was a good fit, and that was uh was Alpine back in the day.
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They uh they they they they put me in a try-out race, and I suck balls.
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I absolutely suck balls.
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Is that a technical talent?
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Yeah, very technical.
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Yeah, I mean I was not technical at all in that race.
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I was at the back, uh people were laughing at me, it was amazing.
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Um so but but I told them if you pick me, I will give it my very best.
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I will sacrifice everything and I will do it.
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However, being an F1E sports driver would never be my goal because what I really loved doing, even then already, is what I talked about before entertaining people, uh presenting, uh making a show.
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So then we go around talking, maybe doing something different.
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And that was what was one of the very first ambassadors for a simracing team, an F1 Sim Racing team.
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Uh and and and I ended up signing with with Alpine Sim Racing to uh to become an ambassador for them.
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Uh and that happened uh in 2021 when of course Alpine started, so I was there vr from the very start, uh all the way up until uh the start of this year actually, uh when I when I announced my departure.
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But in the meantime, I've done so many things, and we'll talk about a couple of them, I think.
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But yeah.
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But in terms of that, so with the okay, so the draft in person didn't end up happening, and then you went through that process.
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So was it a case of you didn't get offered the esports drive, but you did get offered the ambassadorship.
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So was there never a moment where you thought, oh, this is all blown up and has all gone out of my hands?
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Was it a quite a quick transition, or was it you didn't get it, then you waited a few months thinking, oh no, it's all gone, and then you got the ambassador.
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No, it was a very quick transition because we kind of stared towards that already at the start.
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Gotcha.
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Because obviously uh I knew from inside out already that I was never going to sit there for eight hours a day.
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But listen, like this comes out of like a like a like a place where I have a lot of respect for those for those sim racing drivers because they sacrifice everything, eight hours a day, sometimes less, sometimes more, to be the best at what they do.
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And that was never my my goal, let's say, my dream.
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Um or even to become a real life driver was never my dream because sometimes, of course, people want to start in sim racing and go to real life driving.
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Uh my my goal was to kind of bridge the gaps from normal from um real life racing to sim racing through hopefully what people think is amazing content.
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Hopefully.
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Now come on, let's say it is amazing content.
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They must do, makes you you you've got the follow the followers to back it up.
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So people stick around for it, so I think we can uh I think we can safely assume that.
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Okay, we know that you've you've gone through all that esports stuff, you've you've got into the Alpine sim racing, but how in the world does it go from being an ambassador for them to being, hey Tom, do you want to fancy dropping in the car?
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To be honest, I don't know how that happened either, to be honest.
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But obviously, back then, like the the the story and still is, right, is like, can we get a sim racer into a real F1 car or even a real race car, and can they drive the car?
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Ever since then it's happened a few times, but this was truly the first time that someone with no racing experience went and drove a real F1 car.
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So it's always going to be really cool for a team to be able to do that, right?
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So the idea was there to do some cool stuff, and then that opportunity came along because they organize uh F1 driving experiences every now and then, and then yeah, there was an opportunity for me to hook on to that as well.
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And uh, yeah, that was obviously when I heard that I was like, I had to go to the eye test, I was like, please tell me I have eyes, please tell me I have eyes, and and then I had to go and uh obviously uh get my driver license, like uh I had to get everything ready, and then obviously on the day, you also need to prove that you can drive the F1 car because it wasn't just driving in the F1 car, it was also getting into it and doing a couple Formula 4 sessions with actual well, an actual team helping you and also observing you of whether you can actually drive the car.
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So beforehand, obviously I had to go grand, I had to announce it.
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I was I was saying, Tom is gonna drive the Alpin F1 car, it's going to happen this and this day.
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And the cool thing is, we were gonna be the first one ever to live stream it as well.
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So live in the F1 car.
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Awesome.
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Um, but that also brings a lot of risks, yeah.
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Especially for me.
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Yeah.
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Because this guy was very nervous and I didn't want to crash or I didn't want to spin.
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You're the first man to crash an F1 car live on their own Twitch stream.
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There you go, yeah.
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Yeah.
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But even then, even worse, they had to observe me in the Formula 4 sessions, and if I wasn't good enough, or if I did some uh stupid things, then I couldn't drive the F1 car, and that would have been well, then I'm then I don't think I could have shown my face right here with you.
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That would have been bad.
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Yeah, all those announcements and then having to go on and go, yeah, they said I wasn't good enough.
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Yeah.
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That wouldn't have been ideal.
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But they didn't.
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They didn't, they said you were good enough.
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I will say, they almost did.
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They almost they almost did.
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It's like a minor in a driving test.
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They almost did.
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They almost did, yeah.
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Because when I was driving the Formula 4 car, obviously they give you uh telemetry.
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In fact, I have the telemetry right here.
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We can take a look at it together.
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Um and they said, Tom, turn one, it was an alternate alternative circuit in uh Paul Ricard, the track that I drove.
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So the first turn went to the right, cutting the full first sector.
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Okay.
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And uh they said, Tom, turn one, you gotta break a little bit earlier on the first lap.
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Because, you know, I know you wanna go quick, but your tires, you know, you need to you need to warm them up a little bit.
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And of course, my instructor was standing on the inside of turn one.
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First lap, I go there.
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I was like, okay, this is early enough, right?
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This is early enough.
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Let's go a little bit later.
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Pop! Full on the brakes, full locked up, I'm fully locked up.
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The quad lock.
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Quad lock.
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And and I was, oh my goodness, this is it.
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I in the car, I was like, this is it, and I had to do a full session still.
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This is it.
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I'm gonna get out of the car and he's gonna run at me and and hit me or something.
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Right?
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So um, yeah, I got back out of the car.
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I obviously went was I was very, very uh, you know, like kind of and I bet on your legs.
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He came to he came to me, he said, Tom, what did you just do there?
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What did I just say?
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And I said, I am so sorry, I will never ever ever ever ever ever not listen to you anymore.
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So uh yeah, then luckily they gave me a second chance.
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Uh or I don't know if it was necessarily a second chance.
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I was doing a decent job, but that was the one moment I really, really uh yeah, almost uh pooped rainbow colors.
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Uh but uh yeah, luckily it went through.
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Thankfully it was okay.
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Thankfully it was okay, and yeah, what a crazy experience.
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We'll go through that data in a second, but just before that, in terms of of course you get told you're gonna do it, and then you have however long weeks, months, or whatever to prepare.
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How do you prepare?
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Someone that's never driven a car like that before, how do you get yourself ready?
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To be honest, I've always been the guy that likes to do uh sports.
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Um but uh yeah, I didn't really like I'm not you can see I don't lift or whatever, but but like I did I did a little bit of running, uh, tried to stay in a in a bit of shape.
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I probably should do a little bit of running again soon, but um uh yeah, the thing is I'm one meter eighty-seven, and uh back then the the weight limit was 80, 80 kilos.
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Or 19, sorry, 19, 90 kilos.
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I think it's 90 kilos.
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80 or 90 kilos.
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Okay.
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And I was just about below the weight limit, and just about be below the the length limit as well.
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So yeah, obviously it was always gonna be a tight fit.
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I've literally got a question here, which is just how did you fit?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Well, we could talk about it now because yeah, I w that was the one thing I was like, oh, I'm already tall, I'm already, well, not the lightest, but back then I was yeah, always I was not I was a bit younger.
00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:20.559
I was 20, 20, it was twenty I was 22 years old, so four years ago.
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So uh I still had that uh that kind of buddy from doing a lot of sports back from back in the day.
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Of course, and yeah, you did the F4s and then you moved on to the F1 car.
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Yeah.
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What just taught me through that experience?
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So you sat in it, and then I I assume I assume it's already on once you've got in because you it's having to warm up and whatnot.
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So it's already rumbling as you get in.
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Yeah.
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And then as you sit down, you're getting strapped in, what's going through your head?
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Well, what makes it even more nervous, or what makes you even more nervous, is that there's a whole team there.
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Like it's almost as You've been swarmed with people.
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You're an F1 driver, right?
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And then you start realizing it.
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You put your helmet on, you put everything on, and all the guys and girls for the team, they are getting the car ready, starting up with the you know, the motor at the back, and then uh and then they reel you out.
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I mean, my heart was pounding, absolutely pounding, but I think you need that as well.
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You need the adrenaline adrenaline, otherwise you pass out or something.
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I don't know.
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Your heart rate must be going through the roof.
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Yeah, yeah, especially because there were so many eyes on me as well.
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If I was doing it private, then it would have probably been a bit better, but still, I mean, you're about to drive the content creator machine.
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They're gonna get content of you, is the issue.
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Yeah, and I mean, yeah, the fastest machine in the world, right?
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Like, this is this is this is a beast.
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It's a car that won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
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I could still smell Kimbi Riken and sweat in the F1 car almost, almost.
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Or it was my sweat, that could be the case too.
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But yeah, and then you get out, they they push you out, you have an earplug-in, and the engineer comes on the radio.
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Alright, Tom, you called me Tom.
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I was like, You call me Tom, let's go.
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Alright, Tom, slowly but surely, release the clutch.
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And then I release the clutch slowly but surely.
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Alright, a bit more, a bit more, a bit more, a bit more.
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And then I start rolling.
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You get out.
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The the clutch, you can get out, get off the clutch.
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You didn't stall it.
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I did not stall it, no, but I was very, very, very careful.
00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:19.119
It was a bit easier to not stall it than the Formula 4 car.
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I did stall that one a few times.
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So I was very nervous.
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Do not stall it because these guys are not gonna be happy with that.
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But I didn't stall it, and then you get on the power and you hear the V8 of the car, and then I went so slow out of the pit lane.
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Bro said, Tom, speed up a little, man.
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Speed up a little.
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I was like, oh my god!
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I was going out.
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I was like, because there was no pit limiter, and I didn't want to go over the speed limit.
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I had no clue how quick I was going.
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Uh, because in an F1 car, you don't know what the sense of speed is because you're you feel all the wind getting against your face, it feels so much quicker.
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But I was going like 30 kilometers an hour or something.
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And he was saying, okay, Tom, speed up a bit.
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The engine doesn't like it when you go so slow.
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Okay, okay, I'll go a bit quicker.
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And then you get out of the pit lane.
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I was like, okay, now I can get out of the pit lane.
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There's no more speed limit that I have to adhere by.
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Get a little bit of speed, first turn, and then try more and more and more as I go, and then just goosebumps.
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Absolute goosebumps.
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And the first time there was there was this little straight in the third sector of Polar Car, I just floored it.
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It was just and I just got pushed into the seat, into the belt.
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I was oh my good, my my eyes widened like this.
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And it it was as if I was driving by myself almost.
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Like everything I've learned on the sim, it all felt so natural.
00:21:44.960 --> 00:21:52.640
And the funny thing is, driving an F one car, at least how they set it up, because obviously it was the F one car that Kimmy Riker drove.
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Uh they uh restricted the seven gear, so there was no seven gear.
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Okay.
00:21:56.400 --> 00:21:59.759
Still, like what is the difference between twenty kilometers an hour on the on the straight?
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When the acceleration is the exact same.
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Yeah.
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That wasn't a big deal.
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I mean, you can try it once again in a road car and you can go that quick.
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But the acceleration and the braking, that is what makes an F1 car so incredibly, incredibly like even when I think about it now, like I I remember how it felt.
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Like on the acceleration, fully got pushed in, then on the brakes, bop, fully to the front.
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And just it took a second.
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It took a second to to process everything.
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Every time you went on the acceleration, every time you went on the on the brake, and mainly on the braking, it was it was so crazy that yeah, you just had to take a moment for yourself.
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And then I could start enjoying it towards the second lap.
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And then I was really enjoying it towards the third lap.
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And then they said, Tom, you gotta go back in because of course then that's when you get confident.
00:22:49.119 --> 00:22:50.000
Yeah, too confident.
00:22:50.400 --> 00:22:50.720
Exactly.
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That's when they are like, you know what, it's time to end it.
00:22:54.240 --> 00:23:00.640
But I got out of the car and I saw my dad because I took my dad there to make some videos for me.
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And I got out of the car and I just burst in tears.
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I just burst in tears of happiness.
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My dad started crying because he just saw his son drive around with 280.
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I think it was 280.
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I don't know the exact uh uh top speeds, but that wasn't that wasn't what it was about.
00:23:16.480 --> 00:23:26.160
It was more so about experiencing what a crazy machine it is: the grip, the acceleration, and the braking, and that was just I mean, I'm never gonna forget that.
00:23:26.480 --> 00:23:28.640
An absolute attack on the senses, I can imagine.
00:23:28.720 --> 00:23:32.160
Just three minutes were probably the longest, but also the shortest three minutes of your life.
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Yeah.
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Did you did the engineer ever tell you what kind of brake pressure you got to?
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Because I know that's a big thing that people barely can get to like 20-30%.
00:23:38.720 --> 00:23:38.960
Yes.
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This is actually quite funny.
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Because uh obviously, because I do sim racing, we got a load cell brake at home, we got an active pedal at home, you know, all those things.
00:23:48.960 --> 00:23:52.799
Zach who I was about to ask you in terms of like the years of sim racing prior to it.
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How did you find that that helped you during the experience?
00:23:56.079 --> 00:23:57.279
It sounds really weird.
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Obviously, it's completely different, and and I didn't go through the corners as quick as I would go in the game.
00:24:01.920 --> 00:24:02.559
No, I'd hope not.
00:24:02.799 --> 00:24:08.319
Specifically because I do not have a uh flipping Kimi Antonelli neck or whatever.
00:24:08.559 --> 00:24:20.160
Um but it was almost identical to what I've learned, and a lot of people give some bad words about the F1 game that is too arcade or that's not too realistic, or whatever.
00:24:20.240 --> 00:24:41.279
And fair, it's not always the you know the most realistic thing, but the techniques you learn or that I've learned and the kind of skills that I've learned through it almost directly translated into driving the real-life F1 car, and the way that I kind of collared in and steered with the wheel as well was it all felt supernatural to me.
00:24:41.359 --> 00:24:50.720
Uh so yeah, and with the power steering and stuff, like it almost felt like I was driving the game, obviously, with a lot bigger consequences if you uh just yeah, just a little bit.
00:24:50.960 --> 00:25:14.559
Yeah, like um I had to make sure that I did not uh do anything crazy there, and obviously you're not there to prove the world that you're the quickest in the world, yeah, because then you'd have to yeah, like uh really uh have a lot of money to get ready to uh but uh yeah, I don't come from a um from a fan family like that, so to be able to have an opportunity like that was was already something incredible.
00:25:15.200 --> 00:25:17.039
A genuine once-in-a-lifetime experience.
00:25:17.279 --> 00:25:18.160
Yeah, I'm not gonna do it again.
00:25:18.960 --> 00:25:19.839
I'm not gonna do it again.
00:25:20.480 --> 00:25:21.599
Not out of choice though.
00:25:21.759 --> 00:25:23.519
If you were offered, would you do it again?
00:25:23.839 --> 00:25:25.039
I would have to go to the gym.
00:25:25.200 --> 00:25:25.519
That's true.
00:25:25.759 --> 00:25:26.559
Or run a lot.
00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:27.599
We'll have to get one of those.
00:25:27.920 --> 00:25:29.440
Maybe run to bowl the car.
00:25:29.599 --> 00:25:32.400
Maybe then I'm uh run back to the Netherlands.
00:25:32.559 --> 00:25:33.519
Yeah, then it'll be fine.
00:25:33.680 --> 00:25:39.599
Maybe next next time you head down, we'll see if we can get one of those, the head apparatus they have to wear and where we can tug on it really hard.
00:25:39.759 --> 00:25:41.440
We'll see what kind of pressure you can get to.
00:25:41.839 --> 00:25:43.759
Um but yeah, what an experience, man.
00:25:43.839 --> 00:25:50.880
I can't imagine what that's like as someone, you know, as you say, that hasn't hasn't come up through the motorsport ranks to then get the opportunity to drive such a thing.
00:25:50.960 --> 00:25:52.400
It's just it's just crazy.
00:25:52.559 --> 00:26:05.279
But of course, you've done all of your sim racing stuff all around Formula One, and okay, you've you've you've gone from a real cockpit of an F1 car, but for a lot of you racing and streaming, you're in the cockpit of what is almost an F1 car anyway.
00:26:05.440 --> 00:26:11.440
Did that that cockpit that you sit in for your live streaming, did that come about after you did all of that in terms of in a real F1 car?
00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:12.559
When did you buy that cockpit?
00:26:12.799 --> 00:26:14.319
It came uh it came after, for sure.
00:26:14.480 --> 00:26:16.960
Yeah, I did that in 2022, the F1 car drive.
00:26:17.440 --> 00:26:24.880
Um and I always had the well, like I said earlier, like I've always had a dream of doing some cool stuff that nobody's ever done before.
00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:34.559
I did it, I was on my uh my parents upstairs, like with a bed behind me and uh well a little divider to not see show my bed off, but like that was the setup I had.
00:26:34.720 --> 00:26:47.359
It was a really cool setup, it was a really good setup, like with everything sorted, but I wanted to do something different, something that nobody has ever done, and probably will never try to flip and uh do uh or try to replicate to because it's too hard.
00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:56.400
Yeah, so initially I wanted a full Formula One car to drive in, but where are you gonna find the space to put a full Formula One car?
00:26:56.480 --> 00:26:57.200
Yeah, right.
00:26:58.480 --> 00:27:01.920
And then I was like, I want I want to I want I want a cockpit.
00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:06.559
I want something that looks exactly like an F1 car, and then be able to do the live shows from there.
00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:07.440
Like, how cool is that?
00:27:07.599 --> 00:27:11.759
Also for the viewers to see something that it almost looks like I'm driving a real one because I've done it already.
00:27:12.240 --> 00:27:15.920
It's very eye-catching when you're like scrolling through the t uh the uh Twitch homepage.
00:27:16.079 --> 00:27:16.319
Yeah.
00:27:16.960 --> 00:27:21.599
So I found a house and I I was still living with my parents at that point.
00:27:21.759 --> 00:27:22.079
Okay.
00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:27.039
In fact, my parents have been so supportive of me uh since the very start.
00:27:27.200 --> 00:27:29.839
Without them, I would never have been able to do what I do now.
00:27:30.079 --> 00:27:33.359
Allowing me to play games, allowing me to do this on the side to try it out.
00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:41.279
That's lovely because a lot of obviously I don't know the age of your parents, but a lot of people from the older generations will kind of look at it and go, Were you just playing a game, mate, go and get an actual job?
00:27:41.359 --> 00:27:44.079
Yeah, it's lovely that they've actually supported you and sort of seen the vision.
00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:44.720
Exactly.
00:27:44.799 --> 00:27:48.720
And I mean, even if they sometimes didn't see the vision necessarily, they still supported me.
00:27:49.200 --> 00:27:55.519
Which allowed me, exactly, they still believed in me, and uh and that allowed me to to kind of make this into what I have now.
00:27:55.759 --> 00:28:05.279
But my mum came with the idea of she found a house, and in that house there was a possibility to make it two, so one side for them and one side for me.
00:28:05.839 --> 00:28:18.960
So we went into that together, and the cool thing about that house is that there was like a 42 square meters area, uh like six by seven uh meters, where I could put an F1 car, it was like a square.
00:28:19.200 --> 00:28:19.680
Nice.
00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:25.759
So they literally moved houses for me and with me.
00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:30.960
I mean they've they've got they've got a cool upgrade as well, so that's that's that's cool.
00:28:31.200 --> 00:28:40.559
But um, but yeah, basically for me, because otherwise they would have stayed where they were to be able to to to work out and and and w work on my dream.
00:28:40.720 --> 00:28:48.880
So I wouldn't call it a sacrifice, but like it's still sort of a sacrifice that they've done that for me to be able to to do that.
00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:51.839
And uh yeah, then then I started building.
00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:56.640
I I put everything everything apart in the studio, like it was a yoga studio back in the day.
00:28:56.720 --> 00:29:00.400
I still had a I still had a you didn't fancy carrying that on.
00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:02.880
No, well there was a wall, there was something on the wall.
00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:05.200
I'm not gonna say what it is because uh I did something bad.
00:29:05.279 --> 00:29:07.599
I put it up, I ripped it off the wall.
00:29:08.079 --> 00:29:09.440
Something on the wall.
00:29:09.599 --> 00:29:14.079
Uh and then um yeah, basically it was no longer a yoga studio.
00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:17.039
So I I put everything in from the ground up.
00:29:17.200 --> 00:29:19.440
I worked through it with a whole design.
00:29:19.680 --> 00:29:28.799
Uh I had my contractor do put everything in the walls, like basically everything to make the perfect sim racing studio the best one in the world.
00:29:28.880 --> 00:29:30.079
That was my idea.
00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:31.519
I think I've done it.
00:29:31.839 --> 00:29:32.640
I think I've done it.
00:29:33.039 --> 00:29:35.279
I'll make sure to share some pictures so you can show it on the screen as well.
00:29:35.680 --> 00:29:35.920
100%.
00:29:36.400 --> 00:29:54.640
But yeah, basically F1 car on one side with curbstones, with grass to kind of make it feel like you're you're you're you're in that on that track in the F1 car as a viewer as well, seeing all that happen on the side, being able to then rep the F1 car as well, which I'll talk a little bit more about in a bit how we did that.
00:29:54.720 --> 00:29:55.920
That's really cool as well.
00:29:56.160 --> 00:30:09.039
And then on the other side, have a desk, a uh a light reaction test on the wall as well, where you can do some warm-ups or maybe do some uh some games against each other to kind of see who's quicker.
00:30:09.359 --> 00:30:11.680
They do this in real life as well, it's called BatTuck actually.
00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:14.960
They prepare for it with the lights, uh, the F1 drivers.
00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:32.079
And then on the side as well, have a uh a simulator for the GT stuff because obviously I come from Formula One, yeah, and I and I do a lot of Formula One shows, but the idea is also to explore other racing categories and get that on the on the GT simulator.
00:30:32.160 --> 00:30:38.000
So I got an insane GT simulator with motion, crazy motion, it goes up and down, left to right.
00:30:38.160 --> 00:30:48.960
I was on a on a call the other day, and I was like, let's let's see if they notice if I use the motion right now, and all of a sudden I was like this and they were like, Oh, what's going on with your seat though?
00:30:50.240 --> 00:30:51.680
So that was quite funny.
00:30:51.759 --> 00:30:54.799
Um but that one is like so insane that I have belts.
00:30:54.960 --> 00:30:56.319
Oh, right, it's that aggressive.
00:30:56.559 --> 00:30:57.920
Otherwise I fly out, yeah.
00:30:58.079 --> 00:31:00.400
Uh so uh and there's a big button there as well.
00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:02.079
If you're in trouble, you stop it.
00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:10.400
And then the F1 car also has motion, a little bit more smooth because obviously in an F1 car you don't want to jump up, otherwise the suspension breaks.
00:31:10.480 --> 00:31:12.559
So well, you could be replicating pulpociting.
00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:13.200
Yeah, exactly.
00:31:13.279 --> 00:31:14.960
Yeah, you could kind of do that as well, yeah.
00:31:15.119 --> 00:31:27.200
Uh and then the F1 car is super super cool because what I've done is I've created a um a kind of like a window from my couch, because on the other side of the studio is my couch with my TV, right?
00:31:27.440 --> 00:31:38.400
Where I also now do a lot of shows, like uh uh watch longs for the F1 races or non-racing live shows I've started delving into as well, like GTA when the new GTA comes out, it's gonna do that too.
00:31:38.640 --> 00:31:44.559
And then you can see from the side view the F1 car in the studio all the way through my whole house, I think.
00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:50.319
Which is yeah, it's like every time I put a lights on in the studio, I just smile.
00:31:50.400 --> 00:31:51.599
It's it's just incredible.
00:31:51.680 --> 00:32:02.640
And I've never I could have never imagined that that would be something that I would do, but it just shows that if you believe in something, then I mean it is possible, you just gotta keep believing in it.
00:32:03.039 --> 00:32:04.000
I think that's the most important.
00:32:04.079 --> 00:32:08.079
If I can give any advice, I mean I'm now I'm giving advice already the second time now, it's crazy.
00:32:08.240 --> 00:32:08.640
It's crazy.
00:32:08.880 --> 00:32:11.039
Maybe I'm a philosopher or something, I don't know.
00:32:11.279 --> 00:32:22.960
Um but if I can give any advice, if you believe in something truly, then there is a good reason that you believe in it, you gotta you gotta you gotta back yourself up because if you don't, then nobody does.
00:32:23.200 --> 00:32:24.960
So uh yeah, I back myself up.
00:32:25.039 --> 00:32:30.240
And you also have to have sometimes a little bit of misplaced trust and confidence, yeah.
00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:32.799
Uh because I have a lot of confidence.
00:32:33.039 --> 00:32:36.000
Sometimes it's misplaced, oftentimes not.
00:32:36.400 --> 00:32:42.640
But uh yeah, I think if you believe in yourself and in what you do, that you're the best, and then you will become the best.
00:32:42.799 --> 00:32:43.680
Fake it till you make it.
00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:45.440
That's what they what's the that's what they call it.
00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:51.200
Yeah, and I definitely faked it at the start, and now hopefully I'm making I'm getting to the point where I'm making it.
00:32:51.440 --> 00:32:56.720
I think that's I think that's what a lot of young people don't realize is that everyone's just faking it.
00:32:56.799 --> 00:33:04.799
I mean everyone's faking it until they make it, everyone's just giving it a go and and trying to just be in themselves and putting themselves out there, but no one really knows what they're doing until they really.
00:33:05.119 --> 00:33:09.279
You gotta to become the best, you gotta pretend like you're the best before you're the best.
00:33:09.359 --> 00:33:09.839
Yeah.
00:33:10.240 --> 00:33:18.079
So uh yeah, that's uh that's the kind of spirit I always like to uphold whenever I do any content or anything like that.
00:33:18.319 --> 00:33:20.559
And uh yeah, it gives me a lot of confidence.
00:33:20.640 --> 00:33:23.119
So far it's worked uh worked out well.
00:33:23.279 --> 00:33:30.319
But yeah, talking about the F1 car, uh that uh that F1 car, what I've done with it, really cool as well.
00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:36.559
Um I've actually worked with a with an F1 designer, a real-world F1 designer who does liveries for a living.
00:33:36.720 --> 00:33:44.799
Wow, can't say who it is, but uh yeah, basically working on F1 cars normally, and we worked together to make a design that is me.
00:33:45.200 --> 00:33:48.160
Uh we call it uh the Team Tom, in short, TT.
00:33:49.440 --> 00:33:51.839
I always say everyone loves the TT, everybody loves Team Tom.
00:33:52.079 --> 00:33:55.920
And the funny thing is Trek Titan, TT as well, come on now, TT as well.
00:33:56.160 --> 00:34:04.960
So um yeah, uh made that livery, my colors orange, black, white, which is even more funny because Track Titan is black and orange as well.
00:34:05.039 --> 00:34:05.440
It's amazing.
00:34:05.519 --> 00:34:07.119
Look at it, look at it, black and orange as well.
00:34:08.079 --> 00:34:09.119
It's just amazing.
00:34:09.360 --> 00:34:28.320
So um yeah, uh get that livery on, and also what's really cool about it is just like a real F1 team, I can put logos on it, uh sell space on it, of course, and and brand it the way that a real F1 team does as well.
00:34:28.480 --> 00:34:31.360
So all my sponsors, all my partners are on the F1 car.
00:34:31.599 --> 00:34:37.760
So when I'm live, you don't just see me, but you see the car, you see delivery, and you see all the sponsors at all times as well.
00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:50.400
So it's really uh what I hope is like an experience for people to watch, almost like watching Team Tom, the F1 team, yeah, or the F1 driver driving uh driving live.
00:34:50.639 --> 00:34:52.719
Yeah, but you it's thinking outside of the box.
00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:54.000
Well, who else would have thought of that?
00:34:54.079 --> 00:34:58.719
Of getting that cockpit in there and then using the space on it to uh to push other brands, mate.
00:34:58.800 --> 00:34:59.519
I would never have thought of that.
00:34:59.599 --> 00:35:00.800
So it's a it's amazing.
00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:06.639
Amazing what you've done with that space, amazing what you've done with that that cockpit, and I mean it must be quite cool to to drive in that cockpit as well.
00:35:06.800 --> 00:35:10.639
Yeah, to be honest, you'd be surprised uh how quickly something becomes normal.
00:35:10.800 --> 00:35:17.519
Yeah, I always say if if you buy something and you wait for it, the time waiting for it is more fun than having it.
00:35:17.679 --> 00:35:18.079
Right, okay.
00:35:18.239 --> 00:35:22.239
So I also don't want to have everything because if I have everything, there's nothing to work for anymore.
00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:25.840
Uh I'm getting quite far already, so I need to slow down a little bit.
00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:34.000
I need to slow down a little bit, but um uh yeah, I mean uh it's still every time when I see it, it's like a wow moment.
00:35:34.400 --> 00:35:45.920
But yeah, it's kind of weird how normal it is getting into my F1 car to do a live show, and then you know, somebody comes in and they and then they join in, and they're like, Oh my god, this is the coolest thing I've ever seen.
00:35:46.079 --> 00:35:47.360
And I'm like, Yeah, it's really cool.
00:35:47.519 --> 00:35:49.039
I mean, I see it every day, you know what I mean?
00:35:49.119 --> 00:35:49.679
Like it's just weird.
00:35:49.760 --> 00:35:50.239
It's just weird.
00:35:50.400 --> 00:35:56.880
But yeah, it's obviously the coolest thing uh that I could see as well there, and still super proud that it's in my in my flipping uh studio.
00:35:57.039 --> 00:36:01.119
Yeah, you have to keep reminding yourself, like, I did this, I've got that thing in my flat.
00:36:01.199 --> 00:36:02.400
That is the coolest thing ever.
00:36:02.639 --> 00:36:12.719
And once again, yeah, also all the support that I get of course from partners, viewers, my parents, because without that, I would not have gotten that as well.
00:36:12.800 --> 00:36:19.440
So I always I think uh people need to try and uh you know uh set me straight if that's not the case anymore.
00:36:19.519 --> 00:36:27.119
But I always like to try to stay humble because yeah, that's something that uh it's very easy to l to lose out of sight, you know?
00:36:27.360 --> 00:36:35.199
Yeah because oh I'm the best, and you like I said, uh you have to have some misplaced confidence sometimes too, but sometimes it's also misplaced as in like oh I did this and you know what I mean?
00:36:35.360 --> 00:36:40.079
Yeah, but uh yeah, I try I try to uh to stay grounded as much as possible.
00:36:40.719 --> 00:36:43.119
But it's always yeah, you gotta you gotta balance it out a little bit.
00:36:43.360 --> 00:36:48.000
Yeah, you gotta keep the ego in check at times, but you gotta back yourself still, so yeah, finding that balance is is tough.
00:36:48.079 --> 00:36:53.280
But I think our main takeaway from that from that section is uh if you uh if you dream it you can achieve it.
00:36:53.360 --> 00:36:54.320
And you've kind of proven that Tom.
00:36:54.719 --> 00:36:55.119
I think so.
00:36:55.199 --> 00:36:55.920
I think so, yeah.
00:36:56.000 --> 00:36:57.920
And I mean I don't believe in talent.
00:36:58.159 --> 00:36:59.039
I really don't.
00:36:59.280 --> 00:37:03.679
Uh like you said, you gotta you gotta be in a good place to be able to get luck.
00:37:03.840 --> 00:37:04.320
Yeah.
00:37:04.559 --> 00:37:07.280
Uh so I don't believe in luck, I don't believe in talent.
00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:09.679
If you want something, you can become it.
00:37:09.840 --> 00:37:10.079
Yeah.
00:37:10.239 --> 00:37:11.679
But you have to work hard for it.
00:37:11.840 --> 00:37:20.719
Whatever it is, like if you want to be a nail stylist, a really good one, then you need to do a lot of practice and get really good at some people, might be naturally a bit more gifted, right?
00:37:21.119 --> 00:37:27.039
With the genes, but um, but yeah, obviously uh you can become whatever you want.
00:37:27.360 --> 00:37:27.920
Exactly that.
00:37:28.079 --> 00:37:28.559
Exactly that.
00:37:28.639 --> 00:37:30.079
If you dream, you can achieve.
00:37:30.239 --> 00:37:33.920
Um we almost looped back to the beauty vlog, so that was a weird, weird going on.
00:37:34.400 --> 00:37:35.440
You got me thinking about the beauty.
00:37:35.519 --> 00:37:37.119
I mean, I might I might get into that, you know.
00:37:37.199 --> 00:37:38.159
I might I might get into that.
00:37:38.320 --> 00:37:39.599
I thought I thought they were looking nice, mate.
00:37:39.679 --> 00:37:40.559
You've done a lovely job on those.
00:37:40.800 --> 00:37:41.199
Lovely job.
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Now let's get back to the podcast.
00:38:25.039 --> 00:38:26.800
Do you wanna whip it out and talk us through it?
00:38:26.960 --> 00:38:32.239
Yeah, yeah, what's really cool, obviously, uh with the work that we do with Track Titan, uh, it's all about telemetry, right?
00:38:32.559 --> 00:38:38.239
Like it's uh telemetry translated into live coaching uh and of course live overlays.
00:38:38.400 --> 00:38:45.360
So I figured I'm gonna bring my telemetry to the flipping uh forecast right here and show it off.
00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:48.400
So it'll be on the screen somewhere as well, so you guys can see.
00:38:48.559 --> 00:38:53.360
But I've got right here, let's just get out the F1 uh the F1 telemetry.
00:38:53.440 --> 00:38:59.119
We also have uh the Formula 4 telemetry, but that's not that's not too interesting because I was I did not do that well.
00:39:00.159 --> 00:39:11.119
But in the F1 telemetry right here, you've got uh brake traces, you've got uh throttle traces, gears, doing something with steering as well.
00:39:11.280 --> 00:39:18.800
I don't know exactly which one is which, but can I also just highlight the fact of Tom's laptime is in red and then the blue line is Jauna Lacey.
00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:22.800
The blue line is Jonna Lacey, not just some random other black attack.
00:39:24.079 --> 00:39:25.199
A very old John Alace.
00:39:25.599 --> 00:39:26.079
I'm sure.
00:39:26.320 --> 00:39:26.880
I'm sure.
00:39:27.519 --> 00:39:30.960
That's amazing to have your have you and uh and his name on the same sheet.
00:39:31.199 --> 00:39:31.519
That's amazing.
00:39:31.840 --> 00:39:32.639
Yeah, it's really cool.
00:39:32.719 --> 00:39:35.760
So you can see really cool sele similarities.
00:39:35.920 --> 00:39:37.760
So like this was the coolest thing to see.
00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:40.320
Like they didn't show us any like how quick are you going?
00:39:40.400 --> 00:39:41.199
What was your laptop?
00:39:41.360 --> 00:39:44.480
They didn't show us any lap times because we didn't we shouldn't have chased for that.
00:39:44.639 --> 00:39:47.039
It was about experiencing Formula One.
00:39:47.199 --> 00:39:57.039
So the cool thing about this is that the lines in the telemetry are obviously I was slower, like I've only done one outlap, hotlab, in lap.
00:39:57.119 --> 00:39:57.199
Yeah.
00:39:57.360 --> 00:39:57.840
That's disappointing.
00:39:58.079 --> 00:40:00.559
If I was quicker, honestly, I don't think I would sit here right now.
00:40:00.639 --> 00:40:03.039
I would be like, I'll be right back.
00:40:03.199 --> 00:40:04.800
Do you want that same braking contract, actually?
00:40:04.960 --> 00:40:06.320
Uh remote space.
00:40:06.719 --> 00:40:13.119
So the cool thing is, is throughout the entirety of the chart, you can see that I'm pretty close to Jean Olace.
00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:19.199
Sometimes maybe a bit well, quicker, well, not very much quicker, but like uh sometimes uh slower.
00:40:19.280 --> 00:40:22.079
But the line is super close, like it kind of follows the same trajectory.
00:40:22.159 --> 00:40:22.239
Yeah.
00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:24.960
So it shows that I did what you should do.
00:40:25.039 --> 00:40:25.119
Yeah.
00:40:25.280 --> 00:40:30.079
I was just not as confident as Shana Lacey, who obviously has driven way more F1 Grand Prix than I have.
00:40:30.159 --> 00:40:33.199
I'm on a total of zero, and he must be on like a couple hundred.
00:40:33.440 --> 00:40:37.519
But um uh you can kind of see that the lines are quite similar.
00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:48.960
One thing that is really cool to see as well on here is the on the second and the first line, the the first and second line of telemetry, you can see that somewhere over here there's a big dump.
00:40:49.519 --> 00:40:51.039
You see the big dump right there?
00:40:51.119 --> 00:40:51.360
Yep.
00:40:51.599 --> 00:40:53.840
It kind of goes down out of nowhere, right?
00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:57.119
Like he goes straight, yeah, and that is the throttle.
00:40:57.280 --> 00:41:00.239
Yeah, I was gonna say that's the throttle, so he's absolutely flat, and you're uh not.
00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:02.159
I think this might be the throttle or the brake.
00:41:02.320 --> 00:41:02.639
Okay.
00:41:02.880 --> 00:41:05.920
Uh this one is the throttle, I think, and this one is the brake or something.
00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:06.480
Okay, gotcha.
00:41:07.360 --> 00:41:11.920
Um but the funny thing is, this is the third sector of uh powder car.
00:41:12.079 --> 00:41:15.920
You know that very hard sweeping right-hander where you go full throttle basically.
00:41:16.159 --> 00:41:16.639
Right.
00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:18.239
I had no balls.
00:41:19.039 --> 00:41:19.920
No balls.
00:41:20.159 --> 00:41:21.119
I was like, can I do it?
00:41:21.199 --> 00:41:21.679
Can I do it?
00:41:21.760 --> 00:41:22.159
Can I do it?
00:41:22.320 --> 00:41:23.920
No, I can't do it, can't do it.
00:41:24.239 --> 00:41:27.519
I mean, this was my hot lap, my second lap I've ever done in a Formula 1 car.
00:41:27.920 --> 00:41:36.159
Um, which in fact, if we get the Formula 4, you will see that I did go almost full throttle there, or at least how quick you might be.
00:41:36.400 --> 00:41:37.360
We better do.
00:41:37.679 --> 00:41:48.159
Uh so yeah, you can see here that was a big dip, and that was me breaking, which I just fully get launched again, uh, and then accelerating once again, whereas he was just full throttle.
00:41:48.239 --> 00:41:58.400
So, yeah, that was uh the only thing that I think I did a little bit worse than uh what John Alesi did, but yeah, obviously all the other traces are very close.
00:41:58.559 --> 00:42:05.599
And this is what's super cool about this as well, because obviously this is real life, but with Track Titan, you can do it in the game as well.
00:42:05.760 --> 00:42:19.599
So if you've done any like race or whatever, you want to check back, oh you've done a lap in the Track Titan app, you can literally look it back exactly like how I've done it here, like a real F1 car and learn from it.
00:42:19.679 --> 00:42:19.920
Yeah.
00:42:20.159 --> 00:42:25.360
And with this one, I had to figure out myself what this little dip was, right?
00:42:25.760 --> 00:42:30.800
Because there is no uh app that tells me, oh, you need to go uh full throttle here or you didn't break here.
00:42:30.880 --> 00:42:42.079
But with Track Titan, everything gets implemented itself automatically, and it literally tells you, oh Tom, you uh braked a bit too much in uh in this specific turn, and then you're like, oh, okay, that's what I did wrong.
00:42:42.320 --> 00:42:44.559
Does the Track Titan also say you've got no balls?
00:42:44.719 --> 00:42:45.679
Does it say that as well?
00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:47.679
I I'm going to suggest that.
00:42:47.920 --> 00:42:51.599
I'm going to suggest that to the team because uh it's gonna be the Tom Brouwer update.
00:42:51.679 --> 00:42:52.079
Yeah, yeah.
00:42:52.239 --> 00:42:52.960
Yeah, yeah.
00:42:53.199 --> 00:42:59.760
In fact, I did a really cool video uh with Track Titan when we launched our collaboration together.
00:43:00.159 --> 00:43:03.920
And uh it was me being a virtual engineer.
00:43:04.159 --> 00:43:06.159
Like basically basically the have you seen it?
00:43:06.320 --> 00:43:06.880
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:43:07.119 --> 00:43:07.599
Brilliant.
00:43:07.840 --> 00:43:14.480
And uh it was basically uh me saying when I when I when I make and made a mistake in Eau Rouge of Belgium, oh what are you doing, man?
00:43:14.559 --> 00:43:20.159
You absolutely suck! You have to come a little bit harder, and then I do it again and it starts and I start doing it well.
00:43:20.320 --> 00:43:24.000
So maybe uh maybe we need to do that in real life in the in the track title as well.
00:43:24.079 --> 00:43:25.280
I think that would be a really cool feature.
00:43:25.599 --> 00:43:26.559
Let us know actually.
00:43:26.639 --> 00:43:28.400
Let us know in the comments if you would like to see that.
00:43:28.639 --> 00:43:29.519
Yeah, drop in the comments.
00:43:29.599 --> 00:43:33.840
Would would Tom abusing you through your track titan help you gain lap time?
00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:34.480
Let us know.
00:43:34.719 --> 00:43:35.280
Let us know.
00:43:35.440 --> 00:43:35.599
Right.
00:43:35.679 --> 00:43:38.960
Well, thank you for bringing in that uh the data and stuff there, but that's so interesting.
00:43:39.119 --> 00:43:39.440
No worries.
00:43:39.679 --> 00:43:41.360
But uh I'll I'll I'll give you a free pass.
00:43:41.519 --> 00:43:43.039
I'm not going flat for the right hand of mate.
00:43:43.119 --> 00:43:43.840
That's that's fair enough.
00:43:43.920 --> 00:43:47.039
Uh to be to be honest, the fact that you were flat at any point impresses me.
00:43:47.199 --> 00:43:47.280
Yeah.
00:43:47.440 --> 00:43:48.079
So fair play.
00:43:48.159 --> 00:43:49.280
What an amazing experience.
00:43:49.519 --> 00:43:51.599
Right, we're gonna move on to the next section, Tom.
00:43:51.679 --> 00:43:56.239
We're gonna move on to your guest segment section.
00:43:57.599 --> 00:43:57.920
That mate.
00:43:58.239 --> 00:44:04.079
Jacob Make, mate, Jacob Make! So in each podcast, we're going to do a specific little segment depending on the guest.
00:44:04.400 --> 00:44:08.880
Now for today, you are going to be playing faster or slower.
00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:12.800
So I'm going to give you a little list of some F1 content creators.
00:44:12.960 --> 00:44:13.199
Oh, okay.
00:44:13.599 --> 00:44:14.800
Some pro esports drivers.
00:44:14.880 --> 00:44:15.199
Okay, okay.
00:44:15.360 --> 00:44:17.760
And maybe some other names that you might recognize as well.
00:44:17.920 --> 00:44:18.079
Okay.
00:44:18.239 --> 00:44:21.199
And you need to tell me if you are faster or slower.
00:44:21.440 --> 00:44:21.519
Okay.
00:44:21.679 --> 00:44:22.320
So I'll say the same thing.
00:44:23.679 --> 00:44:24.800
Yeah, pretty quick would be nice.
00:44:25.199 --> 00:44:28.320
I'll say the name, and then if you say faster, it means that you're faster.
00:44:28.559 --> 00:44:29.679
If you say slow, it means that you're slower.
00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:30.079
Okay, yeah.
00:44:30.239 --> 00:44:30.480
Okay, cool.
00:44:31.199 --> 00:44:31.760
Alright, you ready?
00:44:31.920 --> 00:44:32.159
Yes.
00:44:32.400 --> 00:44:32.880
First name.
00:44:33.119 --> 00:44:33.840
Areva.
00:44:34.159 --> 00:44:34.639
Faster.
00:44:35.039 --> 00:44:35.920
Hayden Gullis.
00:44:36.239 --> 00:44:36.719
Faster.
00:44:36.960 --> 00:44:38.000
Marcel Kiefer.
00:44:38.239 --> 00:44:39.039
Slower.
00:44:39.840 --> 00:44:41.840
Luke Skywalker in pod racing.
00:44:42.239 --> 00:44:44.000
Ooh, the new game's coming out soon.
00:44:44.159 --> 00:44:45.039
I will be faster.
00:44:45.119 --> 00:44:46.559
I can't wait for that actually.
00:44:47.519 --> 00:44:48.960
Jimmy Broadbent.
00:44:49.519 --> 00:44:52.079
Depends what game, but F1 game, 100% faster.
00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:53.280
Lucas Blakely.
00:44:53.599 --> 00:44:54.400
Slower, man.
00:44:54.960 --> 00:44:56.159
TM at Mardock.
00:44:56.639 --> 00:44:58.400
Ooh, it might be close, actually.
00:44:58.639 --> 00:45:02.239
It might be close, but I'm going to say faster because he won't he won't like me for it.
00:45:04.320 --> 00:45:04.960
Sasso.
00:45:05.679 --> 00:45:06.239
Faster.
00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:08.400
Sonny Hayes.
00:45:09.039 --> 00:45:09.519
Foster.
00:45:10.079 --> 00:45:12.239
Took you a second, but Yana Watmare.
00:45:12.400 --> 00:45:13.840
I was thinking, who is that again?
00:45:14.800 --> 00:45:16.079
Yana Watmair.
00:45:16.559 --> 00:45:17.519
Foster, come on now.
00:45:17.599 --> 00:45:18.559
Who's Yarna Watmair?
00:45:18.800 --> 00:45:19.760
Who the hell is that guy?
00:45:20.239 --> 00:45:21.360
Alex Gillen.
00:45:21.760 --> 00:45:22.480
Slower.
00:45:22.639 --> 00:45:22.719
Oh.
00:45:23.199 --> 00:45:23.760
He's the goat.
00:45:24.159 --> 00:45:25.119
Dirk chocolate.
00:45:25.440 --> 00:45:25.920
Faster.
00:45:26.559 --> 00:45:27.360
Bushy Ant.
00:45:27.760 --> 00:45:28.239
Faster.
00:45:28.639 --> 00:45:29.840
Ricky Bobby.
00:45:31.440 --> 00:45:32.239
Shake and Beg, baby.
00:45:32.400 --> 00:45:34.480
Shake and Beg! Faster.
00:45:35.280 --> 00:45:36.719
And Max was snapping.
00:45:37.840 --> 00:45:38.559
On a good day.
00:45:38.719 --> 00:45:39.599
Ooh, slower.
00:45:39.679 --> 00:45:41.760
Actually, he overtook me in iRacing.
00:45:41.840 --> 00:45:42.960
I was doing Formula Four.
00:45:43.039 --> 00:45:45.920
Yeah, Formula Four, and he overtook me around the outside.
00:45:46.079 --> 00:45:48.000
And he started last and I started P10.
00:45:48.239 --> 00:45:49.119
And he and he won the race.
00:45:49.360 --> 00:45:51.760
Did Tom come up on your computer go, what are you doing, mate?
00:45:51.840 --> 00:45:53.039
You can let Max come through.
00:45:54.400 --> 00:45:58.880
I wasn't gonna say faster on a good day, but then I remembered my first step and overtook me around the outside.
00:45:59.920 --> 00:46:01.679
You're not the fastest Dutchman.
00:46:02.960 --> 00:46:03.280
No.
00:46:05.039 --> 00:46:05.920
Well, there you go.
00:46:06.159 --> 00:46:07.920
A few influencers cooled out there.
00:46:08.000 --> 00:46:09.199
I think maybe we'll need to set up some show.
00:46:09.599 --> 00:46:11.760
Maybe, yeah, maybe you have to get them on Titan Talks.
00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:12.400
Right then.
00:46:12.480 --> 00:46:16.400
So we've called out some uh some F1 influencers, so I look forward to the uh the backlash on that.
00:46:16.559 --> 00:46:18.400
But we'll move on to our next section.
00:46:18.639 --> 00:46:21.440
Our next section I like to call FAQ.
00:46:21.840 --> 00:46:23.119
So we've got some questions to ask you.
00:46:23.199 --> 00:46:29.679
No, not necessarily quick fire questions, but relatively speedy, but still give me a little bit of insight into each of them.
00:46:29.840 --> 00:46:30.000
Yep.
00:46:30.159 --> 00:46:35.280
So first question: What is your favorite racetrack to drive, both in real life and on the Sin?
00:46:35.920 --> 00:46:39.679
Ooh, I think to drive Monaco.
00:46:40.079 --> 00:46:40.719
It's fire.
00:46:40.880 --> 00:46:41.280
It's fire.
00:46:41.360 --> 00:46:42.719
But I have not driven Monaco in real life.
00:46:42.800 --> 00:46:43.280
Not in real life.
00:46:43.360 --> 00:46:45.360
I mean, if I have to say one in real life, it's Bordeaux Car.
00:46:45.599 --> 00:46:47.280
Or actually, I drove Seabrink 2.
00:46:47.440 --> 00:46:49.440
Oh, yeah, really cool track.
00:46:49.679 --> 00:46:50.400
Really cool track.
00:46:51.039 --> 00:46:55.760
I probably enjoyed Seabring more, but my feet did not because I was like, Is it as bumpy in real life?
00:46:56.079 --> 00:46:56.719
It's really bumpy.
00:46:56.880 --> 00:46:57.519
It's so bumpy.
00:46:57.920 --> 00:46:58.800
It's insane.
00:46:59.039 --> 00:47:01.280
But uh yeah, that's just it just feels iconic.
00:47:01.360 --> 00:47:01.760
I don't know.
00:47:01.920 --> 00:47:07.920
And also, like you can see the rockets go up as well as you're driving, because like they've got like a launch side or whatever right outside of it.
00:47:08.000 --> 00:47:08.400
It's pretty cool.
00:47:08.559 --> 00:47:08.880
Epic.
00:47:08.960 --> 00:47:11.360
But you've got no fillings left after that one, they've all fallen out.
00:47:11.920 --> 00:47:18.159
Uh what did being unsuccessful ultimately in the F1 esports pro draft teach you?
00:47:18.480 --> 00:47:20.960
That I could should not be an F1 esport driver.
00:47:22.880 --> 00:47:24.320
Simple answer, that one.
00:47:25.519 --> 00:47:32.079
If someone listening doesn't have the equipment to start sim racing or content creation, how do you recommend that they get started?
00:47:32.400 --> 00:47:32.960
Controller.
00:47:33.440 --> 00:47:34.159
Easy controller.
00:47:34.239 --> 00:47:35.119
Everybody does controller.
00:47:35.199 --> 00:47:43.599
And nowadays the F the F1 games or other games, maybe not iRacing, but a lot of a lot of arcade games, SimK games, they are have very good controller integrations.
00:47:43.760 --> 00:47:49.440
Start out with a controller, uh, you know, and try and get better and better, and then build up your uh your wealth.
00:47:49.679 --> 00:47:49.760
Yeah.
00:47:49.920 --> 00:48:04.960
If you're young, you maybe get a little side job or something, save up, maybe look at your parents nicely uh for Christmas or something, and then uh maybe at some point you can get a wheel and then you'll see that you'll get but bitten by the buck and you're gonna have a Flippin F1 car in your in your studio uh within a couple years.
00:48:05.280 --> 00:48:13.840
Exactly, and you've proven you said about your setup early days where you had the tarp so you couldn't see a bed, like and you still got through to the to the draft earth on eSports with the setup that you had.
00:48:13.920 --> 00:48:21.760
So I I realistically uh I did not come from a a crazy uh rich family or anything like that.
00:48:21.840 --> 00:48:31.199
Like uh I mean I didn't have it bad, but uh yeah, everything that that you see in my studio and stuff I build up over the years, so yeah, if I can do it then then you can do it too.
00:48:31.519 --> 00:48:32.000
Amazing.
00:48:32.159 --> 00:48:36.079
Um what's been your biggest sim racing rage moment?
00:48:36.239 --> 00:48:37.679
Was it caught on camera?
00:48:38.000 --> 00:48:38.480
Ooh.
00:48:39.119 --> 00:48:40.159
Rage moment.
00:48:40.559 --> 00:48:46.480
Ooh, I hate it, like I actually don't mind doing bad because it's part of it, right?
00:48:46.639 --> 00:48:47.360
Like it's part of it.
00:48:47.440 --> 00:48:49.920
If you like do a bad race or something, it's it's fine.
00:48:50.079 --> 00:48:54.559
Like what I don't like is doing a bad live show because that's what that's what I live for.
00:48:54.639 --> 00:48:56.159
I need to do an amazing live show.
00:48:56.239 --> 00:48:57.760
People need to love the live show.
00:48:57.920 --> 00:48:59.519
The entertainment needs to be top-notch.
00:48:59.599 --> 00:49:04.480
If I if I suck at that, then then my day is not fulfilled.
00:49:04.880 --> 00:49:08.000
So once, this is really annoying, like really annoying.
00:49:08.159 --> 00:49:16.559
I was racing around Monaco, like if one car going left, right, all of a sudden, I hear I feel a little bit like my steering wheel gets loose.
00:49:16.639 --> 00:49:17.920
Like, what's that what's happening?
00:49:18.239 --> 00:49:32.559
All of a sudden, PAP! Steering wheel out, I go straight into the barriers, and and this because the steering wheel is kind of like connected through uh a tube to the wheelbase, so it's like a one and a half meter tube, otherwise I can't fit in there.
00:49:32.800 --> 00:49:41.119
But the tube got loose, boom, and and and obviously I wasn't uh Bob the Builder, I couldn't I couldn't fix it on the spot, so my so my live show was done.
00:49:41.440 --> 00:49:43.519
So I was like uh Yeah, that's cutting.
00:49:43.760 --> 00:49:48.559
Yeah, it's horrible because I wanted to really put a good show on for everybody, and I had to say, yeah, I'm sorry.
00:49:48.639 --> 00:50:02.079
And that happens every now and then with a with a malfunction because I've got so many systems, everything has to work perfectly, and if one of them doesn't uh or something disconnects, it's hard, it's really heartbreaking for me because like that's what I live for.
00:50:02.159 --> 00:50:04.159
I wake up every day to do the live shows.
00:50:04.400 --> 00:50:07.199
So yeah, that's that's my biggest, and that's a very long answer.
00:50:07.280 --> 00:50:16.719
That wasn't that wasn't quite a short answer, but what was one thing that driving the F1 car has taught you that you've then applied to driving on the sim?
00:50:17.920 --> 00:50:19.039
Smooth is fast.
00:50:19.199 --> 00:50:22.719
Although I wasn't very quick in the F1 car, but smooth is fast.
00:50:22.960 --> 00:50:24.800
Don't fight the steering wheel.
00:50:25.039 --> 00:50:38.719
Uh and also like um what what what what really I didn't expect was that the F1 car felt so smooth as in like with the power steering, it was actually easier to drive than the Formula 4 car because the Formula 4 doesn't have power steering.
00:50:39.440 --> 00:50:46.639
So yeah, you just have to also looking at for example Max Versteppen how he's driving, he kind of paints with his hands.
00:50:46.800 --> 00:50:47.039
Yeah.
00:50:47.360 --> 00:50:54.320
Like you can really fight it in some categories that works, but if you kind of paint, it's like it's like an art.
00:50:54.480 --> 00:50:54.639
Yeah.
00:50:55.039 --> 00:50:58.639
Be super, super smooth, then that's what at least works for me quite well.
00:50:58.880 --> 00:50:59.039
Yeah.
00:50:59.199 --> 00:51:12.800
Yeah, obviously um you said about the fact of carting, and like obviously you didn't do any carting as a as a kid, but I know in when kids are getting taught in owner carting, that is literally that is something that they'll do at the side of the track to say, you've got to drive smoother, you're fighting the wheel too much.
00:51:12.960 --> 00:51:14.800
So smooth is fast, as you say.
00:51:15.039 --> 00:51:15.840
So there you go.
00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:19.760
That's uh made you an even better sim racer now that you've driven uh driven the real thing.
00:51:19.920 --> 00:51:24.320
I wouldn't say I'm the best sim racer, but I'm the best showmaker, so that'll take that.
00:51:24.639 --> 00:51:25.760
Exactly, exactly.
00:51:26.079 --> 00:51:31.119
Now, do you prefer to race a front-wheel drive car or a rear-wheel drive car?
00:51:31.360 --> 00:51:32.000
Uh ooh.
00:51:34.079 --> 00:51:38.559
I think rear, because you can control the the oversteer a bit better with that, I think.
00:51:38.800 --> 00:51:40.480
So you'd rather oversteer than understeer them.
00:51:40.719 --> 00:51:41.280
Yes, yes.
00:51:41.440 --> 00:51:42.880
I'm not Sebastian Vettel.
00:51:43.039 --> 00:51:47.760
I feel like everybody almost prefers oversteer except for for that guy.
00:51:47.840 --> 00:51:47.920
Yeah.
00:51:48.079 --> 00:51:50.559
But you need a really good car to prefer understeer.
00:51:50.719 --> 00:51:50.880
Yeah.
00:51:51.039 --> 00:51:51.519
100%.
00:51:52.079 --> 00:51:55.599
Uh which current Formula One driver would you like to 1v1 on the sim?
00:51:56.400 --> 00:51:56.960
Ooh.
00:51:58.480 --> 00:52:06.719
Well, I know actually that Isaac Hajar used to be he used to be an esports driver, or at least like he used to do like league racing on the F on the F1.
00:52:07.119 --> 00:52:07.199
Yeah.
00:52:07.360 --> 00:52:07.599
Oh cool.
00:52:07.840 --> 00:52:10.559
His name used to be IGK Zek something something.
00:52:11.199 --> 00:52:13.119
Yeah, yeah, if if it's actually true.
00:52:13.360 --> 00:52:17.760
And um yeah, it would be quite cool to see if he's still quick on the I mean he's probably rapid still.
00:52:17.920 --> 00:52:20.159
If he did like it is gonna be a rapid one.
00:52:20.320 --> 00:52:26.480
I think it would be cool to see him go back to his roots and then I'd take him on and see if I can uh you know, put him behind me.
00:52:26.719 --> 00:52:27.840
Maybe a future video.
00:52:28.079 --> 00:52:29.039
Perhaps it works, we'll see.
00:52:29.119 --> 00:52:30.639
Perhaps get him over in the F1 car.
00:52:30.880 --> 00:52:31.440
We'll see.
00:52:31.599 --> 00:52:38.719
Um you saw that video recently of uh on the Ferrari esports, Lewis Hamilton jumping in and really ridiculously fast.
00:52:38.960 --> 00:52:39.440
He was rapid.
00:52:39.679 --> 00:52:40.079
Unbelievable.
00:52:40.159 --> 00:52:43.840
Fair play to him, especially with a driver who doesn't say like he says he doesn't use the sim, he doesn't like the sim.
00:52:44.000 --> 00:52:44.320
Yeah, yeah.
00:52:44.480 --> 00:52:45.360
Like, how is he that fast?
00:52:45.440 --> 00:52:51.840
I think that proves like you said earlier about the fact of um and I think Max mentioned it earlier as well, older drivers being like, no, it's just a sim, like just leave it.
00:52:51.920 --> 00:52:53.519
Like I think Lewis has proven it there.
00:52:53.599 --> 00:52:56.880
Like he's so fast in real life, doesn't use the sim, but jumps on and he's that fast.
00:52:56.960 --> 00:53:00.800
Like that shows the the transition from one to the other is is really there.
00:53:01.039 --> 00:53:05.039
Um is there a desire for you to actually get out and race for real in real life?
00:53:05.360 --> 00:53:06.400
Cancer cars, nothing?
00:53:06.639 --> 00:53:10.159
I think I'm very different to a lot of people in uh sim racing.
00:53:10.400 --> 00:53:18.400
Like everyone wants to drive, well not everybody, but a lot of people like what would like to drive a real life car and maybe become a racing driver.
00:53:18.559 --> 00:53:24.559
But for me, like what what I get my energy out of and what I really enjoy doing is is entertaining.
00:53:24.800 --> 00:53:34.719
So my goal has never been, which is quite crazy to say after having that experience, maybe even ungrateful seeming to be, but I'm not, I'm very grateful.
00:53:34.880 --> 00:53:48.559
Um but my goal is not to drive real life cars, my my goal is to make the best live shows and entertain people who could not get into that area driving real cars, but make them feel like they're inside of the experience.
00:53:49.199 --> 00:53:54.960
And having done it really helps me to put people in that perspective as well, so that's really cool.
00:53:55.039 --> 00:54:03.039
Uh, but it's not necessarily something that I eye to do in the future, like, oh, I wanna go and do a full season of this and that.
00:54:03.440 --> 00:54:09.440
Uh I mean if I get the opportunity, there would maybe be some consideration, but like you know.
00:54:09.760 --> 00:54:10.960
Could be quite a cool series.
00:54:11.280 --> 00:54:15.679
Exactly, it could be really cool content, yeah, but it's not something I uh I eye to do necessary.
00:54:16.239 --> 00:54:16.480
Okay.
00:54:16.639 --> 00:54:18.960
Your performer first, racing driver second.
00:54:19.199 --> 00:54:19.440
Yeah.
00:54:19.840 --> 00:54:20.000
Yeah.
00:54:20.239 --> 00:54:20.880
I think so, yeah.
00:54:21.360 --> 00:54:24.000
Which era of Formula One is your favorite?
00:54:24.480 --> 00:54:25.519
Not the current one.
00:54:26.639 --> 00:54:26.960
No.
00:54:27.440 --> 00:54:32.800
I think, not because of the overtakes, but because of the feeling, the nostalgia that it gives me.
00:54:32.960 --> 00:54:38.800
I I really enjoyed the uh the the kind of 20 uh 2015-2016 uh era.
00:54:39.119 --> 00:54:45.840
It it just I don't know, it just had a different feeling or something with the old graphics and like the smaller cars.
00:54:45.920 --> 00:54:48.239
It didn't have a lot of overtakes per se.
00:54:48.320 --> 00:54:54.960
It's also not the not the greatest era necessarily in terms of uh but I don't know, it just had a special feeling.
00:54:55.039 --> 00:54:56.400
Everything was new to me still.
00:54:56.559 --> 00:54:56.800
Yeah.
00:54:57.119 --> 00:54:58.800
Um I really, really enjoyed that.
00:54:58.960 --> 00:55:13.119
I think we're getting hopefully to a great era again, but I think the best one I've watched is probably the one where like obviously with 2021, 2020, like that era was probably the the the best one to watch, also the most viewed by everybody in Formula One.
00:55:13.199 --> 00:55:13.360
Yeah.
00:55:13.519 --> 00:55:18.719
But uh yeah, I think 2016 really sparkles my uh my kind of emotions as well.
00:55:18.960 --> 00:55:19.440
I heard about that.
00:55:19.519 --> 00:55:20.079
I heard about that.
00:55:20.159 --> 00:55:20.639
That's a good season.
00:55:20.880 --> 00:55:22.000
Good season, and cool cars as well.
00:55:22.719 --> 00:55:24.320
Just before we get the halo in as well, wasn't it?
00:55:24.400 --> 00:55:25.360
So they all look very different.
00:55:25.840 --> 00:55:26.880
Yeah, awesome, awesome.
00:55:27.119 --> 00:55:28.800
Final question for the FAQ section.
00:55:28.960 --> 00:55:33.440
What do you reckon is the most underrated skill in sim racing?
00:55:35.199 --> 00:55:36.480
Ooh, you know what?
00:55:37.119 --> 00:55:38.400
Not giving up.
00:55:38.960 --> 00:55:39.840
Not giving up.
00:55:39.920 --> 00:55:43.360
I see so many young people, uh, they're very quick.
00:55:43.599 --> 00:55:45.519
Very quick, but they give up too quickly.
00:55:45.679 --> 00:55:45.840
Yeah.
00:55:46.000 --> 00:55:46.960
They give up too quickly.
00:55:47.119 --> 00:55:51.199
I I look at it and I'm like, you can be so good, but they just give up.
00:55:51.360 --> 00:55:53.039
And uh that's the that's the skill.
00:55:53.199 --> 00:55:53.840
Do not give up.
00:55:53.920 --> 00:55:54.159
Okay.
00:55:54.320 --> 00:55:54.800
Keep going.
00:55:54.880 --> 00:56:00.000
Even when the even when you have a little bad moment uh moment or something like that, uh don't give up.
00:56:00.159 --> 00:56:07.360
Keep going because that's what makes a difference in people that actually end up going pro and people that will continue doing it in their bedroom forever.
00:56:07.679 --> 00:56:08.400
Exactly that.
00:56:08.559 --> 00:56:14.559
And if you still break into a corner but John Olacey is full throttle, one day you might get there.
00:56:14.800 --> 00:56:16.880
So uh yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:56:18.239 --> 00:56:22.159
Awesome suggestions of Sean Olacey, and then uh then I'm there.
00:56:23.280 --> 00:56:24.000
Oh amazing.
00:56:24.159 --> 00:56:25.920
Tom, it's been so good to chat with you.
00:56:26.000 --> 00:56:29.599
And as you say, you don't create streams, you create shows.
00:56:29.760 --> 00:56:30.880
And it's been a show today.
00:56:30.960 --> 00:56:31.679
It's been a great show.
00:56:31.840 --> 00:56:34.159
It's been a show on on today's episode of Titan Talks.
00:56:34.480 --> 00:56:34.960
It's been awesome.
00:56:35.039 --> 00:56:37.519
Do you have any any shout-outs you want to give on the camera?
00:56:37.599 --> 00:56:38.400
Anything you want to want to make?
00:56:38.719 --> 00:56:42.159
I think there's only one I have to shout out right there, and that is Trek Titan, baby.
00:56:42.320 --> 00:56:43.440
30 days free trial.
00:56:43.519 --> 00:56:45.920
You can try out all the features and see if you like it.
00:56:46.000 --> 00:56:50.400
I think uh, I mean, for me, uh it's really opened up a lot of really cool things.
00:56:50.639 --> 00:56:59.360
Improving, I've heard a lot of my viewers enjoying Trek Titan, and I think one of the hardest things to improve is not knowing where to improve.
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And I think that's the coolest part about Trek Titan.
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It allows you to find where to improve, and then also it tells you what to do to improve.
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And that's like you can run around like a headless chicken for so long trying to find what to do if you're just doing doing laps.
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Uh, but if you integrate Trek Titan in in the telemetry, uh it literally finds it for you.
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So yeah, I highly recommend if you haven't yet given it a try to do so because it's genuinely a really, really good product.
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Does it help you in terms of because obviously we we know how much it helps in terms of the overall driving, but as a as a streamer as well, how does it impact how you go about the stream and things and how you integrate it and et cetera, et cetera?
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I uh I use uh their live overlay, so the Trek Titan live overlay.
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I have it on the screen when I do the F1 shows.
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Uh so what's really cool for the viewers as well, for example, is they can see my throttle traces, so what we have right here with the F1, but they see it in real time.
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Awesome.
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So they see it going going up, going down, break traces as well.
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And then uh in behind it there's a like a grayed out kind of line, and that's the either the community fastest lab or uh the personal best or the theoretical fastest lab.
00:58:07.920 --> 00:58:13.760
So yeah, that kind of allows you to see while you're driving w what you need to do as well.
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Although otherwise it doesn't necessarily tell you straight off the bat you need to go and break later here, but you can kind of look at it and be like, oh, I break a bit too late or too early here.
00:58:22.639 --> 00:58:27.039
So yeah, there's uh so many things that you can do with amazing, amazing, yeah.
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As we both said, and as Tom uses it like on a daily basis, couldn't recommend it more.
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So uh get yourself sorted.
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Now, here on Titan Talks, we always end with the same question.
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If you could pick up the phone and have a 60-second call with your younger self, reflecting on everything that you've learned in your sim racing and motorsport career so far, what is one piece of advice that you would give them?
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I would tell him uh what uh to invest in.
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What stock, what stock to get?
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Get Bitcoin now! Yeah, exactly.
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I would say like you're gonna get it on this day, and then you use all that cash to do good in the world.
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That's what I would say.
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I mean, not a bad idea.
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Not a bad idea.
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So that's what I would do, I think.
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And then uh I would say do everything as you've done uh or as I have done, because uh yeah, I could not be uh I could not be happier with with where I am, what I do, and uh and the people that uh that support me.
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So uh yeah, I think uh it's always people always want more, right?
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And I want more too.
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Give me more, give me more.
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But uh but uh yeah, I uh at some point you also have to have to think like, are you happy?
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Yes, then live life to the fullest and and and go about it, and that's exactly what I try to do every day.
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Amazing.
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Yeah, so back yourself, be confident, keep doing what you're doing.
00:59:50.400 --> 00:59:51.519
Sound like a philosopher, man.
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This is crazy.
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Tracton uh attract on and philosophy is what we're gonna rename this podcast.
00:59:57.440 --> 00:59:59.760
So we're two philosophers here in the studio today.
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It's been lovely.
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Well, Tom, you've been brilliant.
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It's been so great to chat with you, and uh yeah, thank you for indulging myself and all the people at home into your amazing story and everything you've learned up to this point, and I can't wait to see you go on to uh uh so many more things as well.
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So thank you for joining us.
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Thank you, man.
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And I hope it made sense.
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Otherwise, we have to get some subtitles in here that uh No, you're fine.
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I understood you perfectly.
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You're brilliant.
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Well, there we go then.
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Episode with Tom Dunn and Dusted.
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Tom, hopefully it's not too long until we see you back in the studio again.
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But for now, it is back to John, who's also in the studio.
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Well, there you have it.
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What a way to kick off Titan Talks.
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What a brilliant first guest.
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It was absolutely fascinating to hear more about Tom's busy life up until this point, how he grew into motorsport and how he became a content creator, and then how ultimately that led him to driving one of the most amazing sounding V8 Formula One cars in the world.
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That little sheet with all this data was so interesting, wasn't it?
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Incredible.
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We hope that you learned a lot from this inaugural episode of Titan Talks.
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And like I say, what a first guest to have on.
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You've learnt about the man behind the Simrig.
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And make sure you let us know in the comments who you'd like to see on future episodes.
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Subscribe to the Track Titan YouTube channel to not miss out on any of those future episodes.
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And well, for me, John, and all of us here at Track Titan for this episode of Titan Talks, it is goodbye.