Now I’m in a team and the drivers are all open. It was a personal and rewarding profession for myself. The biggest difference, and the thing I’m enjoying most at this stage in my career, is the team component.ĭid I want to do this championship when I was 22, 25, 28, 30? No, I wanted to be in F1 and I loved that. You are now a race winner with Porsche in the World Endurance Championships. That’s what is difficult to simulate and you do miss that when you don’t have it. In many ways racing drivers are relatively simple but we know the way we see things – the way we absorb high speed is very rare and unique. I’ve had friends who’ve had to stop racing because of injuries and you see them struggle with that because it’s not on their terms, it’s a huge hole for them. You only discover that when you don’t do it as often, which I’m doing now although I still race quite a lot with Porsche in sports cars.īehind-the-scenes at the McLaren Technology Centre Is there an intangible thrill you get from driving despite the dangers? You’ve had some big accidents from Le Mans 1999 to Brazil 2014 (both driving sports cars). For a huge majority of my career, I went into the car virtually fearless. So you can have injuries and you can have fatalities unfortunately in our sport.
It is motorsport and we are doing 200 mph. Read: Justin Wilson dies following Ind圜ar crash The three of names you mentioned they were involved in pretty freakish accidents and they can happen. For us a big problem is mechanical failure on the car. Yes there can be consequences that you might not foresee. We gain a lot of experience.įor a huge majority of my career, I went into the car virtually fearless Pushing the cars to the limit, pushing ourselves to the limit, we enjoy being in that tight envelope. We know that it’s very, very rare for people to be able to do the job that we do, that’s something which we don’t trivialize. Well, we have a huge amount of trust in our abilities. Why are racing drivers prepared to take the ultimate risk? You’ve seen some of those you raced against during your career – including Dan Wheldon, Justin Wilson and Jules Bianchi – killed in motorsport accidents. Testing myself on the hardest tracks in the world and against the best guys in the world, it was an incredible, rewarding profession. I loved karting as a youngster and I wanted to move up and drive something quicker, more demanding, more challenging. You do your best at the time but don’t trivialize what you might need to be prepared for. You need to be more prepared than you think you do. The toughest lesson is maybe thinking you’re prepared and you’re not prepared. The best lesson I’ve learned is not to judge people quickly. What’s the toughest lesson you’ve learned in life so far?
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