When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is no place for arrogance or complacency in racing because you are up there one minute and on your backside the next.
That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be.
When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.
This is a business, and no one enters a race not to finish first. I wouldn't say I'm in it for the competition, but I'm certainly not just in it to coast along. I want to be the best I possibly can be.
For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.
It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.
I'm a racer at heart more than anything else, and that will always be my priority: competing. But ultimately, if you can't drive, you can still have the competitive spirit outside of a car.
I guess it is the sense of personal satisfaction that racing gives you that I am probably going to miss, because in racing you get that feedback very quickly.
In racing, we have a better chance of it happening quicker because we have attracted good people to come to work for us. It's the beginning of a great adventure, and we're looking forward to it.
It might sound stupid, but I don't enter a race to win - I enter a race because I love racing.