Le Mans is such a great race because you can never do anything alone. You have to work as a team member. And being a team member makes you a better person.
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Le Mans takes the best out of everyone. Winning is important but it's not everything. It's such a big and great event in motorsport. You do more kilometres in that one race than Formula One do in a season, and probably a higher average speed. We average about 220km/h including pit stops and cover nearly 5000km.
Any finish at Le Mans is great but every time I go to Le Mans my mission is to win.
Yes, with Le Mans, obviously, the approach needs to be different. You have a race only once a year, so in the whole focus, the whole energy, you know that you cannot change the world and have a race two weeks later.
I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
I'm a competitor. I really enjoyed the race more than just going out and running to run.
I don't like to run, train, in groups. But racing, it's the groups that are most inspiring to me. I love racing with 52,000 people. I don't like training with any more than one person. Ever.
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.
Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.
The competition in today's world of racing is so tough.
I enjoy racing because I want to do it. No one's forcing me.
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