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I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

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.

Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.

I would like to run about 15 stock car races a year. That would be my goal.

If you look right from the beginning of the season I've been very competitive.

To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.

For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.

We go through the whole season working on next season's car and developing the car and making sure we fit in the car and all that sort of stuff. And we obviously give ideas of what we would hope next year's car would have even if it's small things like buttons on the steering wheel and different positions and whatever.

As a driver, you want to race every lap possible, especially when you've got a good car.

You always want to have a winning car, but there is no guarantee that it will be.