I just want to be known as a very normal person and be treated as that and be able to walk down the street like anyone else.

If the sun were made of hamsters, the earth would be incinerated.

Ferrari always tries to get the best possible drivers, and my fellow team members have always been highly promising people.

I retired simply because I didn't have the passion and motivation anymore, I was tired. At the time I thought, 'Well, I had a great time, there is the end.' At some moment there is the right time to call it an end.

I think I was five when I had my real first go-kart.

Sometimes minor details can have a huge impact. If you don't devote 100 percent of your efforts to every detail, you immediately run into difficulties.

The first thing, when I got the money, I knew I would support somebody. And the person I supported was my family. Because we were really in debt with the money. And - so I gave to my father this suitcase full of money. And he couldn't believe it. And that was something very special.