That's one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don't have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

I am sure there's going to be times when I do things wrong that no one's going to like and everyone's going to think I'm terrible and rubbish but I know I'm going to go through those times, and it's just about understanding that that's going to happen.

The Pirellis you can push for a couple of laps and then you've got to start saving. It's not easy.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

The first time I used a simulator was in 2014 when I was competing in the Ginetta Junior Championship.

The McLaren prizes can only help me in my quest to ultimately reach Formula One.

You can only get to a certain point when you feel confident with the simulator and it always changes when you get to the track and you actually drive it for real for the first time.

In the ideal world, if I was perfect, I'd be able to beat every teammate that I have, in every race.

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

I need to do well and show I'm a worthy driver in F1.

Sometimes I'm a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it's good to have both.

I definitely wasn't anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

McLaren were one of the first teams I liked and supported.

To be announced as a race driver for McLaren is a dream come true.

F2's much harder physically on the arms and almost on the whole body than F1 is.

I used to watch some F1 races but I was never straightaway thinking 'that is what I want to do.'

I've been away since I was pretty much eight, traveling to the car tracks, and then going to Europe and traveling more.

When I was five - it's not even bad - I stole a sweet from the sweet shop.

The biggest difference in the wet between F2 and F1 is that there's so much more power in F1 as being on the throttle earlier has a bigger advantage.

I started off with sim driving, playing 'Gran Turismo,' and my Dad had some sort of Logitech steering wheel with pedals for the PlayStation 2.

The 'Pro-Sim' is pretty much the best simulator you can buy, because of the steering motor and the pedals. The force feedback we get through the steering is pretty much exactly the same as what we get in the actual car in terms of how heavy it is.

I started off riding motorbikes and at that point my hero was Valentino Rossi.

I turned away from bikes when I got a bambino kart for my seventh birthday and started doing some karting, just around some cones at home, but I didn't think at that point I knew I wanted to go into F1, it was more just for fun.

I want to go down in the history books with what I've achieved.