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

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

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

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.

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

That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.

When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.