Tom Stallard, Oscar Piastri’s race engineer and McLaren’s Director of Human Efficiency, is a person of many abilities.
As an expert rower, he received an Olympic silver medal and have become a world champion. As an engineer in Method 1, he’s taken race victories with among the sport’s most gifted drivers and performed an enormous half in McLaren’s transformation into title contenders.
F1 NATION: Liam Lawson opens up on his ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ alternative – it is our 2024 United States GP preview
So why did Stallard make such a giant profession change, and the way does working in F1 evaluate to rowing? On the newest episode of Past The Grid, he joins host Tom Clarkson at McLaren’s headquarters to debate this and far more.