When you have the chance to fight for victory or a podium finish, you have the motivation to push that extra bit out of yourself.

I was not interested at all in Formula One when I left; I was very busy with my airline. But slowly I started missing the adrenaline rush and the driving of such fantastic cars at the limit. In reality this urge never disappears when you're a top driver, because I think we're a different breed of people, we need to take chances, we need to push ourselves to the limit all the time, that sort of thing. It stays with you, although you can kill it by losing motivation or other things in your life, but it never leaves you forever.

This aircraft tops everything. All the others look old as compared to this one.

Really, you should always discuss the defeats because you can learn much more from failure than from success.

To be honest, it is boring to talk about winning.

Whenever I see something that challenges me, I take it on.

The air travel industry moves into a new phase every five to six years.