I get to do the Dakar Rally. I get to do the Daytona 500. I get to do the Indy 500. I'm very fortunate to get to do these things.
I love racing and I've always enjoyed racing. I love to try and go back to the local short tracks and do those races. And sometimes I do.
My last race was at Le Mans in 2000, my first race was in 1959, so I dodged a lot of bullets along the way, I can tell you that.
I like road-course racing.
Le Mans takes the best out of everyone. Winning is important but it's not everything. It's such a big and great event in motorsport. You do more kilometres in that one race than Formula One do in a season, and probably a higher average speed. We average about 220km/h including pit stops and cover nearly 5000km.
I've run 1,000 miles in Baja, and that's pretty much nonstop.
But my passion is racing cars. It's what I like to do in my off time.
At the end of the day, I'm riding a little kid's bike around a track; that's what I've done for as long as I can remember. Now it's just on a bigger stage at the Olympics.
Racing is work, so that's not a hobby.
If the Indy Racing League didn't have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.
In NASCAR, you don't have to be as physically strong as in some other forms of racing. You've just got to be able to endure the heat and endurance of it.
I don't feel 50. I'm still ambitious, and I've only just got my licence to race sports cars. I race for an Aston Martin team called Beechdean, and it's a huge challenge.
My son is racing his first 24-hour this year with Porsche.
I am part of a circuit called 24 Hours of LeMons, where it's a sort of riff on 24 Hours of Le Mans. It's a poor man's weekend warrior racer event.
I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
Any finish at Le Mans is great but every time I go to Le Mans my mission is to win.
Racing amuses me.
The thing I love about off-road racing is the pride in how abusive it is.
The Baja is a survival race, and there is no break, but you're not up on the wheel all day in the Baja like you are in Winston Cup or at Indy.
It's an amazing experience for me, coming from the F1 environment and to see a race like Le Mans.
There's a tremendous number of the Daytona Prototypes.
A lot of the listeners don't realize that the Daytona 24 Hours is the most difficult race in the world. It's 24 hours, a lot of darkness because it's held at the end of January, so you're talking about 13-14 hours of darkness.
I'm definitely more one of the drivers who would want to do Daytona, Le Mans, and the Indy 500.
To push behind the dog sled and run in front of the dog sled. That was always an interesting job.
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.
