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.

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 mentality of the people in the team a bit better.

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

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.

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 have had a good chance of making a mistake.

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.