So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race..

I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car..

The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair. People who never drove a car in these con….

I was looking at the history of the sport and I couldn't understand why there have been so many good South American drivers, especially Brazilians..

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one..

People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet..

One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car..

You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise..

It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the m….

You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop ….

It's not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage..

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 was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience..

When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog..

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 ….

Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!.

Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? - Of course it does - I'm not an idiot..

I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk..

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..

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….