I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical.
Tyre management has always been part of the qualifying strategy and the race itself. I dont know about others; I just know that I always push as much as I can to obtain the best result possible.
When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre
The trick at Le Mans is to get the car 'in the window.' Everything is critical: the tyre pressure, the brake temperature, and that means you have to push the car a lot to get it into the window - it's about getting everything to work right and getting the car to flow through the corners.
The only thing that really annoys me is when all of a sudden you hear yourself on the radio advertising Smith's tyre shop or Blenkinsop's jam. They simply can't do that. And in Australia, occasionally I have to take action.
I risked getting my tyres nicked by going to Robbie Fowler's home in Liverpool!
