A lot of damage has been done already. You just need to look around and see what's happening. People are struggling to get deals and get into cars and the deals are coming at the very last minute. |
All the sudden, he was jumping on the brakes. I was so surprised I didn't have time to stop. He was in the wrong and he can say whatever he wants. He did not play by the rules and he could have paid a very, very high price for it. It could have been a very big two-car crash. |
Anything can happen here. You can blow up an engine. Last year we blew two in practice and warmup. For me, that's the worst scenario. The best one was gone, and that's why we had to fight Bruno so hard. |
Before I say it is my dream to race in NASCAR, I need to see if I am good first, |
But nothing happened. The team told me, 'Don't worry,' so I didn't. |
For me, I have my job where I obviously always have to prove myself over again and be successful. If I decide to do something else which is new for me and completely outside of the picture for me from what I am established to be good at, then that is fun. There is nothing wrong with trying something and checking it out to see if you like it, if you're good at it. And I don't have the big ego, so it doesn't matter to me. |
He just dragged me all the way up there in traffic, nearly stuffed me in the wall coming off Turn Two, |
He's been feeling like the persecuted guy all his career and he's lost a bunch of championships by behaving like an idiot, |
I couldn't stop myself from thinking, 'Oh, God, what's going to go wrong?' But it was a perfect weekend really. No drama. |
I don't know if I'd want to do it (race wheel-to-wheel) with just anyone, ... I think I'd be nervous to do it with anyone other than Bruno -- or Oriol now. It was really close, I was on the apron and Bruno was a few inches away from my wheel, sometimes even less so it's quite nerve racking. You know how difficult and dangerous it can get out there so you don't really want to be side-by-side for 20-something laps. It was tough; I had serious thoughts about backing off at some point especially with the championship situation but once you're in the car you just can't do that so you just have to keep going. |
I don't know if I'd want to do it with just anyone, |
I don't know what to expect. |
I don't think anybody has to motivate me or this team. We still want to win just as much as ever, and everybody on the team is working hard to make that happen. |
I felt at one point that the engine didn't sound right. The power was there but it didn't sound the same. Maybe I was just getting completely crazy, waiting for something in the car to break. |
I gave him plenty of room at the hairpin...and he just ran into me. I don't know what happened, he was obviously very angry. |