When a car's ahead of you, as long as you can see it, you get a tow, just like the draft in NASCAR. Even if it's a long ways down the track, it punches a hole in the air that has to help. When you're running alone, you can feel the difference, and it shows on the clock, too.
Nothing compares to the Indianapolis 500.
There is so much more demand for Formula One than it can supply. You have governments investing in circuits all over the world, and the private sector sometimes has a tough time competing with that.
I think it's counterproductive in many ways to pretend to know things you don't. You surround yourself with people who are the real experts.
All of the courses that run through real streets are very demanding. There is no room for error, no shoulders to lean on. If you go off the road, you're into somebody's shop-window or front porch.
The most important thing at Daytona is, are you going to have friends willing to work with you during the race as far as drafting? You've got to have friends out there. You can't do it alone. You form those relationships as the race moves along.
Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.
It makes great conversation to discuss what's wrong with open-wheel racing today.
I don't remember as a kid wanting to do or be anything else but drive something, be a race driver.
The United States is the only country where a driver can have a successful career - either in stock cars or IndyCar - and he won't need a passport.
Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning; they are well informed.
Unfortunately, we don't educate drivers enough to be respectful on the road.
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
In the U.S., we really have fallen short of road-racing facilities that have kept up with the times, unfortunately, but it's a fact.
I see all these old people who don't have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep. I will never say 'retired' because that's such a finality that I don't want to be part of my life. I'll work until they throw me in a box.
Quite honestly, I treat myself with cars I really want to drive, and I have some flexibility to do that.
Staging Formula One is incredibly expensive.
Can the U.S. support two Formula 1 races? I think so.
From a prestige standpoint, the U.S. needs to host Formula 1. And I think Formula 1, they know they need the U.S. as well. So many companies that are global are based in the United States support Formula 1.
