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

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 the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

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

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

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

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 from the outside. In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place. I pushed like mad, yet everyone was gathered around the winner and they were thinking that I was just trundling around. But that's motor racing. So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport is the long term. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.

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