In another world, Ayao Komatsu would be the one asking the questions. “I actually wanted to be an investigative journalist,” the Haas F1 team principal reveals. “I wanted to do journalism that the police and the media wouldn’t touch. My own investigations, my own evidence, to get to the truth.
“But Formula 1 then became everything. A friend told me I had to do maths and physics and I thought ‘Oh s***.’ I wasn’t a scientific guy. I looked at engineers and wished I had their brains. But it didn’t matter how much time I needed to do in the classroom… I was going to make it to Formula 1.”
