Championship Points Quotes

Some other people are very lucky and always get in to the very best teams at the very best times and therefore go out and score lots of championship points and be in with a chance of the championship.

The track in Abu Dhabi is special; this will be our third Grand Prix there.

If you've led the championship after seven races you should be fighting for the title.

There was very little opportunity to carry on in Formula 1. My goal was to get on to the starting grid and that didn't look achievable.

I'm very confident about being on the grid in Australia in 2003.

In the rest of the world though, particularly in Europe, the most popular form of racing is not stock cars. It's not NASCAR. It doesn't look anything like NASCAR. It's Formula 1.

Teams like Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes are going to be very, very motivated to go for the titles.

We have 21 races in the year and Monaco is the one that you want to win.

I enjoyed my first season with Sauber, for sure.

Monaco was my first race of the season and I spoke with a number of people and all seemed to be very optimistic.

I would obviously like to have been arriving in Valencia with the title still up for grabs, let's not kid ourselves, but even though Valentino has won, the season is not over for me.

It's what counts, isn't it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it's nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It's a much bigger problem.