Jean-Eric Vergne Quotes

I really want to thank Red Bull Racing and Dr. Helmut Marko for the confidence they have in me.

In an F1 team at the end you have your little family and I feel that Red Bull is definitely mine and my place to be at the moment.

The fact is that I've got a contract with the BMW Williams F1 team until the end of 2004, and that the team will naturally be my number one negotiating partner for the following period.

Being an F1 driver is a crazy job but not what everyone expects. My year consists of 20% driving and 80% media, marketing, and travel.

I had a great opportunity to be an F1 driver but, on the other hand, I have a great opportunity to become a rally driver with a very good programme.

If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.

Also, when I started racing he knew a lot of people and it was more easy for me to find the first bike, so I have a good chance for sure.

Before my accident I had to fund my racing through finding sponsors myself so I am use to it. Obviously at that point I was 15 or 16, knocking on business's doors going 'I am a racing driver, a British champion and I want to be in Formula 1, will you give me an amount so I represent your brand'.

We've always said that it doesn't say 'Daniel Ricciardo Racing' or 'Max Verstappen Racing' - it says Red Bull Racing.

I have always had deep respect for Sam Schmidt Motorsports and couldn't be happier in partnering with Sam.

Jules Bianchi was my racing godfather, and he spoke a lot to Ferrari about me.

What many people don't realise is the first F1 test I was offered by Frank Williams and the team was a one-off. It was never planned that I would become part of the team or it would lead to more.

I grew up wearing free racing T-shirts.

As has been the case with Sebastian Vettel, Daniil Kvyat, Daniel Ricciardo, Max Verstappen, we're always going to draw upon the talent pool we have.

I wanted to be a professional motor racer. It was only due to lack of sponsors that I could not do it.

I am living my childhood dream of racing in Formula 1 and I've put my whole life into achieving that dream so it is only natural for me to be giving absolutely everything I've got, to achieve success in racing and the day I no longer do that I will retire from racing immediately.

I've enjoyed my year with Caterham, I get on really well with the people so I think we keep all options open but 100% focus is to stay in F1.

I've had an interest in racing all my life, or longer really.

I have spent--or wasted--my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing and bull fighting as the only true sports. The rest, he sniffed, are merely games.

Since I got to F1, and especially since I got to Red Bull Racing, I said, 'I don't want to have any regrets. I've got a chance now in a top team. I want to leave it all on the table.'

I am happy to come back to Sahara Force India.

Red Bull doesn't get the credit it deserves. Neither Buemi nor Alguersuari would have progressed through the junior ranks - let's not forget Alguersuari won the British Formula Three championship - without the support.

My goals in the future is to not just be in Formula 1. I want to be really successful, World Champion, though I guess this is like everyone! But that is what I'm targeting.

As a racing driver, everything you do is to get to Formula 1 and one day it stops.

McLaren were one of the first teams I liked and supported.