I've been fortunate Daytona is a place I've run better than anywhere else, and that's a big race. Maybe it has to do with attention and pressure and the drive to do well when a lot of people are watching.

It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.

You have to keep thinking, I can be better.

I've been taught from a young age to want to be the best driver... It was about being the best driver and not the best girl.

It looks like I have a thing for dangerous sports, don't I?

I think you can be happy and still be competitive. A good lesson for everybody is to think a bit before you speak and represent who you really are instead of the brash emotional you.

I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States...