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

I don't like to go over curbs, because I don't want to be hard on the car.

One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car.

You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work.

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

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 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.