Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.

Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.

I have always liked a challenge.

To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.

Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners.

Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.

I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.