No driver is perfect.

I focus on my own job.

I don't like drinking, basically.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

I'm an all-or-nothing kind of guy, I guess.

Overall there's going to be things I'm not great at.

I need to do well and show I'm a worthy driver in F1.

It's rule number one, really - beating your teammate.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

I don't think there's any point going for second or third.

I think Weetabix and full-fat milk is what it is all about.

I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.

I've missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

I want to go down in the history books with what I've achieved.

Well, it's looks like I've a love-hate thing going on with Monaco.

To be announced as a race driver for McLaren is a dream come true.

I enjoy driving on the sim, doing stuff like that, staying at home.

When I was five - it's not even bad - I stole a sweet from the sweet shop.

The racing is quite boring, sometimes. It's hard to see how it pulls in fans.

I started off riding motorbikes and at that point my hero was Valentino Rossi.

F2's much harder physically on the arms and almost on the whole body than F1 is.

The McLaren prizes can only help me in my quest to ultimately reach Formula One.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

There's definitely going to be things that I'm not very good at, things I can improve.

I'm definitely more one of the drivers who would want to do Daytona, Le Mans, and the Indy 500.

If I make a mistake and finish 10th when we should have finished ninth, then I will be unhappy.

I used to watch some F1 races but I was never straightaway thinking 'that is what I want to do.'

I like to paint my own helmets. I design my own suit and boots, I like being unique in that way.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

The Pirellis you can push for a couple of laps and then you've got to start saving. It's not easy.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

In the ideal world, if I was perfect, I'd be able to beat every teammate that I have, in every race.

Joining McLaren didn't add a lot of pressure but of course you want to make sure you can impress them.

The first time I used a simulator was in 2014 when I was competing in the Ginetta Junior Championship.

If McLaren give me a car, that's fine, but I don't tend to buy fancy stuff anyway or super-nice clothes.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don't do a good job in qualifying or the race.

I'm a fighter, I'm a winner, and I'm not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

My dad kind of liked racing and motorsports, but wasn't a big fan, it wasn't like he watched every race or whatever.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

I've been away since I was pretty much eight, traveling to the car tracks, and then going to Europe and traveling more.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I'm worth it, then everything should be fine.

Having the support from everyone, the bosses, whoever within the team, definitely makes it much easier for me as a driver.

A team like McLaren doesn't want to keep changing drivers at a time when they're developing the car. They want consistency.

It's not like I'm nervous of people seeing what I can or can't do on camera or on TV or anything, or what my engineers think.

I tend not to really think about what other people say. I'd rather just try and focus on what I'm doing, try and win basically.

On the sim at home, you can change downforce levels, roll bars, springs, ride heights - you can try all these different things.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it's quite difficult to put the lap together.

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