I’m not saying he would go at half speed. I’m saying being on the dominant tribe with Yul, Becky, and Sundra on his side took a whole lot of pressure off of him to HAVE to win every single challenge. He could go to every challenge and think “hey, I’ll try my best, but if I don’t win, I still have a few people that have my back”.
On the other hand, if at the merge, it was 8 Raro tribemembers vs Ozzy, that’s a completely different scenario. That’s a shitload of pressure for him to win every single challenge and know that if he loses a challenge, nobody has his back. Who knows how he would have responded with that type of pressure on him?