10 Things F1 Driver Alex Albon Can't Live Without | GQ Sports

The problem with just the espresso is that you drink your espresso, put on your balaclava and voila, you know you have your helmet on. I know you smell your coffee beans when you drive, which is no fun. Hi, I'm Paula One host Alex Howard and these are my top 10 essentials. Anyone who knows me knows that I lose everything. I think that's because most of the time I'm so focused on driving that honestly my mind becomes different. place and the amount of times I've lost a wallet, a phone, pas

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, it's over and over again, so air tags are my savior, my Crocs, I mean Crocs are cool now, I basically have my little debits and they are my travel shoes, but they are actually quite embarrassing, so sometimes when I travel with other

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s I end up not wearing them, they will be left behind.

They're pretty simple, if you want a little history behind them. 23 is my race number. mode, always on peace sign I'm known for a peace sign Lightning McQueen. I see I have Lightning McQueen Crocs right now so I need to go buy them, they are so easy to wear I mean. like you can literally put them in the washing machine, you can throw them away, they smell good like the detergent bars in your shoe, so it's pretty nice, so this is my Chipotle celebrity card. I am very excited. I get free Chipotle, that's all I can say.

Did I deserve this? Don't know. I am very privileged. I can eat this as much as I want. I guess I'm not sure my coach agrees, but I think I can move on to the third element. It's actually more of my career stuff, so I chose the lane pass, this takes me to the circuit, which is obviously very, very useful. I miss this sometimes, but this takes us anywhere and actually takes us running too. control, so when we are naughty and we can go to the stewards and they are going to scold us, we have to use these cards to enter the buildings.

This photo was taken in 2019. I was at a restaurant with my family asking me for a photo and I was late to respond to the email so they just took a photo. I think my monk gave them a photo and cropped them all out, so there you go, lovely, and then this is a bit more serious. This is actually my running notebook, so it's a little messy, it's a little worn, but it's very important to me. It's where I do everything I do about my racing, so before every session I have notes here from corner to corner, basically saying I wonder what I want to do in terms of my riding in terms of settings and just little check marks and suggestions for when I leave each session.

We also have a lot of numbers, you know, when we drive, around oil temperatures. Tire temperatures. We want to make a pit stop, there are a lot of

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to remember and like I said my memory is not very good so I need to write these

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down as I forget that a lot of these things are confidential because of all the numbers there. This is like a normal test, it's actually the first test of the year, so it would be like what I want to do from corner to corner, just little things that get me in the zone and get me ready, and then I don't.

I don't know what this document is, but I think this was my exemption, this was Mexico, so it wasn't the Mexican circuit's fault for having an accident and dying, so I would say these are my favorites, this is the real performance, now it's kind of what I call natural melatonin again I travel a lot, sometimes we travel week after week, you know, six jumps, six seven hour time zones and I struggle quite a bit with melatonin. I feel like my dream doesn't feel like a real dream, I'm kind. of waking up disoriented and not feeling very well before race week, so this is a very good substitute, it's just cherry extract, if you drink too much of this, you'll need this and this is caffeinated gum, and I'll take this. pretty much before every session so it's a mental sport where you need to be at the top of your game, sometimes you might be a little tired or sometimes you just need a routine and for me that's having a little caffeine before you start . car and it just stimulates the brain and concentrates you many

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s use espresso or drink an espresso, which is fine and sometimes I do too, but there is also this gum, if you want a good drink, you will drink espresso. and this is good because then you don't breathe coffee when you drive around caffeinated gum is the way to go.

This is my Oculus Rift. It's something I've gotten into since Covid, obviously, when we go running. tracks, we spent a lot of time in hotels and a lot of circuses that we went to wherever we were, you know, one day, two days of quarantine sometimes and in hotels, that can be quite boring, so I bought an Oculus Rift. my girlfriend also has a choice, she gets competitive so there are some really good games but I was losing a lot and so I adopted it. I found this online that is like a golf grip accessory. My game has changed since then and I'm still losing, but I'm losing less and obviously with them being in a long distance relationship, it's also quite nice to play together.

These are my kind of comfy loungewear, so of course, you know, I have some Levi sweatpants that are super cozy and I travel with these everywhere and then these are my naughty underwear, so they're cool because I actually had appendicitis this year and I had to have some scars and all that kind of stuff to make it comfortable. They don't have any seams, it's practically a single material, so they are very comfortable and I have to wear them more and more because I found them to be the best thing to wear. I lost my scars, I was repairing them.

Something very important this year in Formula One, where underwear has become a big topic of conversation. I previously wore it as my normal underwear and then as my chimney on top, but apparently that's too bad for you, the material used can leave these burn marks. unwanted places I like safe parts of my body when I drive my girlfriend gives them to me and tells me I need to put them on every day so this is gel cream, this is SPF cream and that's why my skin is quite sensitive . You have all this skin when driving too, what's quite tricky is when you have your helmet on and you're sweating so much that you don't want some kind of thick cream and it starts to get uncomfortable when I'm driving, so gel cream is pretty good because It is quite light.

My girlfriend tells me all the time to use it. She says you can get sunburned even indoors, kind of like in a greenhouse. So I use this all the time. I'm not using it, she will literally open the bottle and just cover me with it, so I guess this will also be difficult, um, a piece of Chili's. I love chili. I love all kinds of chili. I'm half Thai. these aren't fun enough thai chilies, these are chinese chilis from my girlfriend's family, they make the most amazing szechuan peppers. I use them for everything. I usually eat eggs in the morning, they go really well with that and there's your basic iPad, so I'm a I'm a big iPad kid.

I love watching YouTube and that's pretty much what I do to relax, so when I come back from a circuit you'll see me watching if you know Mark Queens, he's like a street food YouTuber. boy, I'm a big foodie, I love spicy foods, so yeah, Mark Wiens is my hero abroad, this is one of my passions, photography of all kinds, really, this is a Polaroid. I see them more and more, especially in America, a lot of people and fans will. Create Polaroids instead of cameras, which is cool, you sign them and they give them back to you, but yeah, it's kind of fun.

I usually take them with my girlfriend wherever she is watching her compete or if she is watching me compete. We'll take pictures of each other and then just use regular film cameras, so I like my film photography. I love the feeling of not knowing what you're going to see until you get the results. Normally we'll have a day to adjust for jet lag or whatever I mean it's the perfect time to grab a film camera and just walk around thanks for watching these have been my top 10 essentials