Maintaining a balance of focus and relaxation is important for optimal performance, especially in high-pressure situations like starting a race.

“you want to be fast off the start line but then the first thing you have to do is get into turn one when you have eight guys around you trying to navigate at the same thing and you have to you have to react to them so if you were very tense you know that that would decrease your performance in that setting so I think some of it is just getting you to the point where you're focused but then also relaxed”