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Ask me about the challenge of becoming as good at music as I am at motorsport, and I have to say: my career has been racing, and I don’t plan on music becoming my next career.
A lot of people say when you have kids, you slow down. I want my kids to see me race.
I don’t think that American drivers going to NASCAR are taking the easy way out because as I said, the racing is amazing; it’s just that it’s easier to adapt to what you grow up with. American drivers grow up with NASCAR, they know NASCAR, and that’s where they want to go.
Both Indy Car and Formula 1 work in the same way, although there is a greater emphasis on development and technology in Formula 1.
Everybody has fallen asleep on the fact that F1 is dangerous. They all think it’s a video game, and it’s not. It is very, very dangerous, and it’s tough.
Everybody just uses the one-move rule without realising when it is too late to actually move and cross over and when it is actually being dangerous.
Everything bad about France was transferred to Quebec.
Winning the Indy 500 in 1995 and the Formula 1 championship in 1997 are very special moments for me, and the people in NASCAR show me respect for what I’ve achieved so far in my career.
I think it was wrong to take the decision to slow F1 down. It was much better in my day, when it was already a lot safer than it had been in the ’70s and ’80s, but you could still drive crazy fast.
I’m competitive, but that doesn’t stop me from being realistic.
I don’t like people telling me what to do. I’m very independent.
Conserving fuel is fine, and it was great in the past. The problem is that the drivers don’t have to do it. It’s all done electronically. You sit there, and it saves fuel for you, and that defeats the purpose.
I would rather have racing without computers. The human side is forgotten, and instead of talking over what’s happening and just trusting the feel of the driver, the data becomes almost more important.
You need to let the drivers go for it, and if they bang wheels, too bad. It’s fun, it’s a good show, the fans are up in the grandstands, and they can scream and shout about it… that’s good; that’s what you want.
I hate it when politics play too large part in the sport.
It’s sad that you don’t see drivers being real people.
The feeling I got from rallycross was a little bit more of the NASCAR aspect of it; it’s a family of races where racing is a passion, and it’s not the politics that come with it.
Ultimately, the best driver will always do something special, whatever the rules and whatever the regulations. Same thing with the teams.
If I knew I couldn’t win races, I would have stayed in the States.
With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I’m sure that had a huge influence on me. However, my father had more influence on me just by the way he lived, because the way he was at the racetrack was the way he was in everyday life.
I’m a racer at heart more than anything else, and that will always be my priority: competing. But ultimately, if you can’t drive, you can still have the competitive spirit outside of a car.
Unlike motor sport, I didn’t get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.