{"id":259762,"date":"2025-07-12T19:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T19:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/259762\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T19:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T19:49:09","slug":"haas-team-boss-ayao-komatsu-answers-listeners-questions-live-at-the-british-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/259762\/","title":{"rendered":"Haas team boss Ayao Komatsu answers listeners\u2019 questions live at the British Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">How do F1 teams help new drivers settle in? What are the secrets of Silverstone? Could listening to Taylor Swift help Ollie Bearman go faster? Haas Team Principal Ayao Komatsu answers these questions and more in the latest F1 Explains live show, recorded at the British Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">F1 Explains listeners Eil\u00edn from Ireland, Maya from New York and honeymooning couple Amie and Sam joined Komatsu and podcast host Christian Hewgill on stage during the race weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">They asked Komatsu how Bearman and Esteban Ocon adapted to their new team, the differences between rookies and experienced drivers, and how F1 stars stay focused during a race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Meanwhile, will Komatsu use Hewgill\u2019s idea of playing his drivers\u2019 favourite songs over the radio to give them a boost? Watch this space&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">The full episode of F1 Explains is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" href=\"https:\/\/audioboom.com\/channels\/5104626-f1-explains\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">all other podcast apps<\/a>, or you can listen using the player above on this page.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">F1 Explains is the award-winning official F1 podcast which answers your questions about the sport. You can send your questions to <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/article\/mailto:F1Explains@F1.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">F1Explains@F1.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How do F1 teams help new drivers settle in? What are the secrets of Silverstone? Could listening to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-259762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114842001560200945","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}