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 conditions, they just don't know.

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

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

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

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

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