Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In school I was pretty fast.
Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down.
I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.
I remember it was hard to believe that I was taking a step onto the lunar surface.
I don't recall ever desiring to go as fast as possible.
I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.
I'm used to short distances and short bursts of energy; it was just fastest.
Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to.
For most of my life, I've been in a hurry.
I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.