Occupation: Race Car Driver Birth: February 24, 1955
When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast..
I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during ….
Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would hav….
Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest spee….
When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good..
I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't ap….
I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk..
Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? - Of course it does - I'm not an idiot..
Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!.
Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere..
It's not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage..
I like the mentality of the Americans. It's like when you talk about money..
When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good. There have been times when I have been flat-out to finish sixth, but you can't see that….
I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car..
I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one..
When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that's the only way yo….
That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race..
A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best..
I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved..
When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog..
People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet..