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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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