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My new life goes beyond my dreams because my dream was Formula One and I achieved it. I'm a driver, I feel like a driver. I have won this race because I am alive.

I wanted to be a race car driver when I was a kid.

As a driver, you always dream of winning a F1 race, and to win so early on in my career was very special.

As a Formula One driver, you dream about winning your first race all your life. I am desperate to know what it feels like.

I've been in motorsport my whole life since I was eight years of age.

When I was a kid, I would watch the grands prix. Everyone dreamt of becoming a race driver, while I only started thinking about it when I was 18 or 19. Only at that age did I seriously start thinking about this job. Before then, I would change ideas from one second to the next.

Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.

My career in racing started at a very young age in California.

I think as a 20-year-old you expect life to always be easy. You get given a good hand and the chance to race in Formula One. You think the driver can make the difference, can make up for everything else within the team. But that is not the case. You are racing in such a competitive sport so that doesn't happen.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a footballer and racing driver, like all kids.