Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.

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

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.

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

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

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 you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing.

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