Ha, some days ago the same people were one hundred per cent sure that I'd signed for Red Bull! So much for that.

It was an easy choice to return with Lotus Renault GP as I have been impressed by the scope of the team's ambition.

You always want to have a winning car, but there is no guarantee that it will be.

Be yourself. If you try to be someone else, it won't work. Whatever you do, you are not going to make everyone happy.

You don’t drive races on paper.

There's always a lot of talk about motivation to race, but nobody really knows what I do or what I think apart from myself, so I don't really care what people think.

When I was a kid, I would watch the grands prix. Everyone dreamt of becoming a race driver, while I only started thinking about it when I was 18 or 19. Only at that age did I seriously start thinking about this job. Before then, I would change ideas from one second to the next.