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I remember back in the early ’70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, ‘Don’t worry, you’re going to be a late boomer.’ That’s what she said to me, and I’ve always held that thought.
To have a home Grand Prix is awesome, so just to go there is already a buzz.
There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.
I was in hospital between the Grand Prix in Australia and Malaysia because of a lack of water and a little bit of lack of everything. I was very weak.
I worked with Michelle Yeoh on my last film, ‘Far North,’ and her partner is Jean Todt; at the time, he ran Ferrari. So I went as a VIP to the British grand prix.
I was a professional and did my best to prepare for every fight, but after PRIDE Grand Prix, to be honest, I didn’t have motivation to go on.
When I was a kid, I used to play a game called ‘Grand Prix Two.’ Interlagos was always the first race of the season on that, and I never really got much past the second race. I would always restart the season, so I always seemed to be doing Interlagos – it was a real pain!
For many years I enjoyed the pleasure of cruising on my yacht all summer long and these were my best holidays. In mid-May, we’d start in St Tropez. I’d collect my bikinis from my home there and then we’d go up to Cannes for the Film Festival, on to Monte Carlo for the Grand Prix and then to Italy.
The Monaco Grand Prix is in May right around the time of Cannes.
You know, the Monaco Grand Prix is the grandfather of all street races.
It was unbelievable: competing in my home town at a grand prix I was watching when I was three years old. It was massive and a dream come true.
When you win a Grand Prix, it’s the culmination of everything coming together. Not just trackside, but behind the scenes.
I’m very proud to be the first winner of the Indian Grand Prix, but then on the other hand we recently lost two of our mates. I didn’t know Dan Wheldon, but he was big in motorsport, and then this year I got to know Marco Simoncelli, so our thoughts are with them at the moment.
For me to train and get ready for racing, I can’t just sit in the gym all the time and that’s the way it is. Responsibility starts and stops with me. My main gig is grand prix driving, that’s what I do and I need to keep that in the forefront of my mind.
Famous for his ‘Maverick’ Western series in the 1950s and ‘The Rockford Files’ in the ’70s, and in movies like ‘The Great Escape’ and ‘Grand Prix’ in between, James Garner played amiable, independent characters for more than a half-century and never lost his comforting, enduring appeal.
My parents don’t have a lot of money, and it was only when my mum’s mum died that we could buy Fernandez, my first grand prix horse.
Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does.
What motivated me to sign with the PFL was precisely the grand prix format, which gives you this great prize. One million dollars, that gets any person’s or any athlete’s attention.
It’s very, very special for me. This is where I’ve grown up, it’s my home, and winning the Monaco Grand Prix is the highlight of any racing driver’s career and for me a childhood dream. It being my home makes it all the more special, unbelievable.
We have had more sales for this year’s grand prix than any other, and we have been helped in that by the fact that Jenson had 10 podiums last season and looks like a winner. It is good for British motor racing if he is there and doing well.
I’ve done drag races. I’ve done Long Beach Grand Prix stuff. I’ve done NASCAR stuff. Just about anything carwise under the sun, I’ve done. Whether it be driving schools or racing schools, I’ve had a passion for it for a long time.
Ayrton and I shared a lot of incredible races, where he was first and I was second and vice-versa. I think it’s fair to say I am the only racer in Grand Prix history who wasn’t intimidated by him, and I think that was great for the fans – it did make us have a few close calls, though!
I like to think that the Grand Prix helped Long Beach to pretty much change its image.
The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.
People always think that the worst time of my life must have been after the German Grand Prix crash in 1976, which put me in a coma and left me with severe burns. But it wasn’t.
Greg Jackson gave me hope after four losses. After my last loss in the Strikeforce grand prix against Kharitonov, I gave him a call and asked him if he thought I should retire. Some of my trainers, some people told me I had lost it. He said, ‘Absolutely not. Just come to Albuquerque,’ and gave me that hope.
Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve – of how fast a man is willing to take a curve.
It is such a special feeling to win a grand prix.
Of course it’s a nice challenge to compete against a grand prix winner.
I’ve had dreams – there were three things I wanted to do during my career. I did them during my first year of Grand Prix.