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Even if the pace is slow in championships, you can still sprint well and still power in the last 200, which is always the main part when the race is slow.

A guy like me, yes, I am good in terms of championship races, and that's where I dominate - but in terms of running fast times, I haven't quite done that.

At big championships it's not the fastest person, it's the person who gets it right on the day.

You do, mostly, in track, different sessions, sprinting and medium sessions in different style. You have to see that even if the pace is slow in championships, you can still sprint well and you can still power the last 200, which is always the main part when the race is slow.

The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

Being a champion is not just being a frontrunner and being ahead, but it's facing adversity.

In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.

Some other people are very lucky and always get in to the very best teams at the very best times and therefore go out and score lots of championship points and be in with a chance of the championship.

You can't ever make the perfect run, but you can make the best run, and then you clock the fastest time, and that's a win.