- [Interviewer] You good?
Hello, yeah.
All good.
This is always the hardest part of the job.
(upbeat music)
It's very cold, but it's a good morning.
- [Receptionist] Welcome to McLaren.
You must be Oscar.
- Thank you.
Yes, that is me.
My name is Oscar Piastri
and today is my first day at McLaren.
- I have some items for you here.
Access card.
- It's important.
I'm allowed in everywhere now.
- [Receptionist] Site map.
- Now I know where I'm going.
- There's a phone for you as well.
- Thank you.
- [Receptionist] And a tablet.
- It's always a fun day.
- One more thing,
there's your car key. - Oh!
So I got the keys to a McLaren Artura.
Very, very cool car.
Let's go find it.
Ha ha, my new wheels.
I believe this is called perks of the job.
Hey Google, play some music.
(upbeat music)
(engine revs)
We are at MTC for the very first time, which is pretty cool.
Very famous lake and boulevard there.
Yeah, I'm really, really excited.
(engine hums)
Here we are.
(orchestral music)
Ha!
So, Bruce McLaren.
Nice to meet you.
60th year of racing here at McLaren this year,
so for me it's pretty special to be starting my journey
with McLaren in such a historic year.
I won't hold the fact that he was a Kiwi against him,
but that's okay.
So I've met a lot of people in the team today.
Getting there with the names.
There is a lot of people here at McLaren.
- [Worker] These are the marketing offices.
- Yep.
Hi. - Hello, James.
- Nice to meet you, Oscar.
- [Worker] Partnerships, licensing.
- How are you?
You good? - Yeah.
All very nice people who have been very welcoming.
- Hello.
Good to see you. - As you.
- It made me feel part of the team straightaway.
I got up in front of pretty much the whole team,
and yeah, gave my opening words.
(everyone applauds)
I'm super excited to be working with you all
and yeah, to be here on my first day is awesome.
And to be able to share the start of my journey
with all of you guys here is a big privilege for me.
(everyone applauds)
A little bit nerve wracking,
but I think I handled it alright.
Super License.
I don't think I've ever signed one of these before.
I'm sure I must have.
We signed my Super License,
so I'm now allowed to drive on the racetrack,
which is also very handy.
And there we go.
Something I've wanted to do since I was a little kid,
be an F1 driver.
So to have the official license to do it
was a very special day.
After that, some time in the simulator.
(fast-paced music) (engine revs)
That was a pretty cool part of the day.
Here we go.
This is pretty cool.
One of Mika's old suits from the 14th of June, 2001.
So I'm only just older than that suit
and I'm pretty sure he was called The Flying Finn.
Let me just double-check that.
I think he was.
There you go.
Mika Häkkinen, The Flying Finn,
because of course he was very fast.
Got one of Kimi Räikkönen's old suits as well,
another Flying Finn.
And then we've got Lewis Hamilton,
those two suits they're from the era
that I started watching F1, pretty much.
Fernando Alonso, spent a bit of time working
with him last year.
Onto Lando's suit from last year too,
nice and bright, nice and papaya.
And I'm assuming pretty similar
to what I'll be wearing this year.
So shall we go check it out?
Alright.
Uh-huh.
Very nice.
To see all that for the first time,
it's really sinking in what I'm part of
and the family that I'm part of.
- [Mechanic] So if we start with brake pedal
would you want the hill rest brought towards you at all?
- Maybe ever so slightly.
- [Mechanic] Okay.
- If we can move this inside flag of the heel rest.
I think that's pretty good.
- [Worker] If you're happy.
- Yep.
- [Worker] I'm happy.
- I'm happy.
It's the boss.
Afternoon.
- What's going on, dude?
- Not much, how are you?
- Good.
- [Oscar] Good to see you.
- Here, have a seat.
What have you been doing?
- Learning a lot of names.
- Yeah, me too.
So what do you do next?
- I think we go racing.
Yep.
- So what are your goals for this year?
- It sounds a bit cliché, but learn as much as I can.
If we can get some good results along the way,
that'll be a bonus.
- So what we need to think about,
this is something for you to think about.
- Yep.
- But your first podium, whenever that may be.
- [Oscar] Yes.
- Hopefully sooner rather than later.
- Hopefully, yeah.
- I like to reward our drivers.
I got stuck with a tattoo on one of them.
(Oscar laughs)
But give some thought-
- [Oscar] Yes.
- [Zak] to what would be memorable for you.
- Okay.
- We'll do something fun.
- I'll think of something
- Cool.
Awesome to have you on board.
- Thank you, likewise.
- We're ready.
Let's do it.
- Time to go.
- See you, dude.
See you later.
Next on the list,
we are off to Bahrain for some actual driving,
so that's the fun part.
That's what I sign up for.
Yeah, hi mom.
My first day's been good.
Yes, it is cold, and no, the food's not as good as yours.
Yeah, there's a lot of learning,
so I feel like I'm in good hands.
It's been a day that I'll remember
for a hell of a long time.
Alright, that's it.
First day done.
First day on the job.
So yeah, let's get stuck into the season.
See you out there.