I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.

There are those who keep out of mischief, and there are the adventurers, ‘ he said. “We racing drivers are adventurers; the more difficult something is, the greater the attraction that comes from it.

Never think of your car as a cold machine, but as a hot-blooded horse.

Women rule our lives, don't they?

In my day it was 75 percent car and mechanic, 25 percent driver and luck. Today it's 95 percent car.

You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are.

Everything has changed. When I was at school and was told I had better learn English, I said: What for? The English are a hell of a long way away!