BEYOND THE GRID: Tom Stallard on going from the Olympics to F1 and working with the likes of Daniel Ricciardo and Oscar Piastri at McLaren

Tom Stallard, Oscar Piastri’s race engineer and McLaren’s Director of Human Performance, is a man of many talents.

As a professional rower, he won an Olympic silver medal and became a world champion. As an engineer in Formula 1, he’s taken race victories with some of the sport’s most talented drivers and played a huge part in McLaren’s transformation into title contenders.

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So why did Stallard make such a big career change, and how does working in F1 compare to rowing? On the latest episode of Beyond The Grid, he joins host Tom Clarkson at McLaren’s headquarters to discuss this and much more.