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.

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

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.

So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. 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.

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.