In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.

Oh yes. It's not when you brake but when you take them off that counts. Most people don't understand that.

I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.

It takes leadership to improve safety.

The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyres to no wings right through to slicks to enormous wings.

Juan Fangio was the great man of racing, whilst Stirling Moss was the epitome of a racing driver.

There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.