It's the best thing to happen to a sport, that you have a superstar. In football there is always something to write about the Beckhams, same as people want to write about Rooney or Hooney or whatever his bloody name is.

Bernie [Ecclestone] is the commercial rights holder so the more outgoing the champion is, the better. Of course. I also do think about our sport and want to make an effort - but in my own way. I am Nico [Rosberg] and not Lewis [Hamilton]!

There is no recipe for that. Both [Nico Rosenberg and Lewis Hamilton] are very likely equally talented in the car, so the fight between the two happens between the ears - in the head.

Under the engine cover, no one cares what's in there. Nobody cares.

I have always been happy to have daughters rather than sons. You never really can be mad at girls for anything in life.

With [Vladimir] Putin, he says he's going to do something, he gets on it, does it.

I never neglected my daughters - quite the opposite - but I suppose I could have and should have spent more time with them.