The past is just data. I only see the future.
I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.
These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.
Once you are in it, you are in it. You have to go all the way to the end because you commit yourself to such a level where there is no compromise. You give everything you have, absolutely everything. Sometimes, you find even more because you require more if you want to stay ahead and you want to win.
I want to live fully, very intensely. I would never want to live partially, suffering from illness or injury. If I ever happen to have an accident that eventually costs my life, I hope it happens in one instant.
And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.
When you’re not happy, you need to be strong to change, resisting the temptation of turning back. The weak go nowhere.
It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.
The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.
I started racing go-karts. And I love karts. It’s the most breath taking sport in the world. More than F1, indeed, I used to like it most.
Nothing can separate me from the love of God.
Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.
And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.
Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.
Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.
You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.
I believe if you are doing something like competing, like motor racing, you either do well or forget it.
My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.
It’s important that the drivers stay together, because in difficult moments we have each other. If we are not together the financial and political interests of the organisers and constructors come to the fore.
I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.