If you are for a long time at the top you've basically achieved everything you wanted to. Then the ball's breaking stuff starts to be too much: it's not what you do in the car, it's what you do outside the car - the press conferences, the interviews, the sponsorship commitments, the marketing appearances - that sadly go up to a level that the whole package, including the risks you take, the workload you do to get the car to work and for you to be quick in the races, it becomes too much.

I maintain that the maxim is still to be faster than the others.

Taking your first title is much more complicated and more difficult; it takes years of work - from go-kart to Formula One. The second comes more easily, because you've already got the experience.

I always go extreme ways.

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

My experience enables me to select the very best pilots in the market.

Jean Todt's system will never succeed, not even with Michael Schumacher.