“And I think just with experience, we’re always learning every day, but now starting my fourth year, I have either the answers to a lot of those kinds of questions that I wouldn’t have had in the first couple of years, or I know the questions to keep asking, which just comes with experience.
“There’s naturally less and less for Mark to do on the racing side of things the more experienced I become. But especially in the first couple of years, there are some lessons you have to learn the hard way, and there’s no other way of doing it, but I’m sure there could have been plenty of other slightly annoying, tougher lessons to learn that I was probably spared because of Mark’s experience and Mark’s guidance.
“There’s probably always going to be situations or things that have gone smoothly or almost problems that weren’t problems that I’m never going to know about because Mark managed them for me. That’s probably how it’s changed in the last few years.”
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