I'm loving my role as a McLaren Young Driver, spending time in the simulator at the McLaren Technology Centre and attending some Grands Prix with the team.
I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn't quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.
It's just trying to do the best job I can in these opportunities that I get to show what I can do, be consistent, have good feedback, be fast, at the same time not make mistakes.
On the sim at home, you can change downforce levels, roll bars, springs, ride heights - you can try all these different things.
I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.
I need to do well and show I'm a worthy driver in F1.
I want to go down in the history books with what I've achieved.
I'm an all-or-nothing kind of guy, I guess.
I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.
I tend not to really think about what other people say. I'd rather just try and focus on what I'm doing, try and win basically.
How you go about testing is just very different to just being in the situation of qualifying, having to go out, having to nail the lap.
It's what counts, isn't it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it's nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It's a much bigger problem.
Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.
Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.
Joining McLaren didn't add a lot of pressure but of course you want to make sure you can impress them.
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'm sure like everyone else I'm not always the happiest if I don't do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.
It's rule number one, really - beating your teammate.
Every driver is different, so I just hope whatever I do is going to be good enough, because it's not that I just want to be with McLaren. I want to win with McLaren.
I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.
