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I am happy to come back to Sahara Force India.
Fans are an essential part of sport in general.
The rule of thumb in F1 is to beat your teammate.
I'd like to have some good races and score points.
I think new regulations create a reset for all teams.
It's very difficult to predict a team's competitiveness.
It has always been my dream to work for a manufacturer team.
If you receive so much fan mail, it does touch you personally.
If you make your own luck then I don't seem to be very good at it.
I'm pretty excited to be racing for Williams. They're real racers.
Of course it's a nice challenge to compete against a grand prix winner.
Winning Le Mans didn't change my career, but it definitely gave me a boost.
Every driver wants to compete in races - that is what we are all driving for.
I think very clearly the philosophy is to build a competitive and very quick car!
I believe in hard work and good decisions and the rest it will come or it doesn't.
I don't have a sponsor or come from an exotic country where I can bring tonnes of money.
As a part of the Renault family, I want to develop the car and write new success stories.
You always have some weaknesses, if you're entirely happy it means you're under-driving it.
Sometimes I think I'm a bit impatient, and a bit more patience would help me in some cases.
It's an amazing experience for me, coming from the F1 environment and to see a race like Le Mans.
I have to do my homework, be fast and consistent. In that case I have always beaten my team-mates.
I think you need to be able to adjust to the required circumstances and adjust your driving style.
I'm not desperate to stay in Formula One. It needs to be sensible and it needs to be the right deal.
I'm not a big fan of the halo as a device. I have to face facts - it does bring something in terms of safety.
My first pole position is an emotional and hopefully historic moment as I want to be in F1 for many, many years.
To be honest, all my career I've been at one number, I have my fighting weight, my happy place and that's 78kgs.
Weight is crucial and it is very beneficial - if you have spare weight in Formula One that is powerful performance.
I'd like to thank the management at Force India for giving me the chance to return to Formula One as a team driver.
You've got to distribute the tyre life over the stint, I think that's the main limiting factor, more than car balance.
The cars need to be louder so it goes through your skin and your stomach, like it used to be - and we need a bit more speed.
We always see that the gaps in qualifying are surprisingly close but then in the race suddenly it is like a second or something.
Of course I would love to battle for victories and be up the front but it's always about where can you be, what are your alternatives.
I never had the help of money in the background - it could be the cherry on the top a little bit - whereas some others had that to offer.
In his stint with Renault, Michael Schumacher not only helped make Germany an F1 nation, he also sparked my enthusiasm and fire for racing.
I believe that Renault can provide me with a competitive car in the future, and that's what a driver needs and what a driver is looking for.
Yes, the sound of the new V6 engines could have been a little bit better, but it is just one of those things that you get used to with time.
When I was 7-years-old I, discovered Go-Karts and started Karting, since then I thought to be an F1 driver, that was pretty much buried into my head.
The fact that people are regarding me as the team leader doesn't change much. At the Sauber F1 team both drivers get the same equipment and treatment.
Maybe in hindsight the move to Sauber - not to disregard that year - but maybe if I'd stayed at Force India, that could have been a change to my career.
I feel excited about my new home in F1. I am looking forward to working here and of course I am especially looking forward to driving the car for the first time.
I can't lose any more weight. I would very much like to be 10cm shorter and 10kgs lighter. It would make my life a lot easier but it is what it is. What can I do?
You don't get that opportunity everyday to do Le Mans with Porsche, a brand that has so much tradition and history. So I just grabbed the opportunity while it was there.
It is obviously always nice to start in a strong way, but it's also very important to keep that strength during the year - the season is quite long, from March to November.
Sometimes, especially when you are in the traffic behind other cars, you get a lot of stuff - sand, oil - and if that mixes up that can be very bad for the vision sometimes.
It's important to drive consistently to evaluate changes that are made to the car. You need to be very accurate with your feedback and communicate as much information as possible.
I love being at home! We travel a lot so I really enjoy being at home, having a lazy day on the couch, watch a couple of movies, meet friends, cook dinner, go to the cinema, play tennis.
Nowadays you need a strong aero package, a good aerodynamic car, but also mechanically you cannot afford to have poor suspension. It all goes together as a package and you have to have harmony in the car.
I find it interesting as every year people say the midfield is as tight as ever but it is always tight, it is always competitive. I've pretty much spent my entire career in the midfield so I know about it!
I've always enjoyed visiting India and we usually go to Mumbai or Delhi a few times during the season. It's a shame there is no race in India because it's a great facility and I always enjoyed racing there.
Monza is special. It's a high-speed track that pushes the car to the limit: it may look easy but the margin for error when braking for the chicanes is very small and you end up paying heavily for every mistake.