Despite the differences in the field, he said, there were some things racing could help him with in his new life.
“We’ve been learning on the job and that’s probably what racing teaches you because in life, I would say, almost everybody to a certain degree learns from their failures and mistakes,” he said.
“In racing, if you’re really successful over a season of 12 months, you have a strike rate of roughly 20% – which means you lose 80% of the time.
“But that time losing is the time where you create winners because you learn what you need to do.”
He said it was “exactly the same” in many walks of life, including renewable energy with its planning and connection applications.
“It’s peculiarly complicated and you keep bashing away and you learn from your failures,” he said.
“If one option doesn’t work, you look at another option, so I guess resilience is probably what racing has taught us.”