Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.
If I'm hitting 3-wood and everyone else is hitting driver, it's a level playing field. If I'm hitting driver straight, then I think I'm playing at a different level than everybody else.
Everyone's got talent at the level we're at. But being a smart, tough football player - there's a huge premium for that.
I think my speed is one of my biggest assets.
The fundamental basis of above-average performance in the long run is sustainable competitive advantage.
Press coverage is nothing different. I mean, you win off the line, you win. It's that simple.
My favorite change is taking traction control away and launch control, because my starts are pretty good, I think, and I make always some places up in the start and I think that will be great if that comes back to the driver's hand.
We want to be a works partner. Ferrari and Mercedes have their own works teams so where would you be in the pecking order if you're a customer?
Weight is crucial and it is very beneficial - if you have spare weight in Formula One that is powerful performance.
A lot of guys are just as fast, just as strong, or just as big as me. But they're not going to be able to think the way I do on the field.
I think we all, as drivers, come to the table with a package. It's either your speed and raw talent, your sponsorship money, your nationality. For me, one of my unique selling points is my gender, without a doubt.
You can always figure if it's a Busch race then I'm going to be at the front.
All top players have an edge to them.
There are certain guys that are obviously a lot more talented than myself and a lot of the other players in the league, but... once you gotta play against me, all that's out the window.
I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning.
It changes from track-to-track, but when you are behind someone, you know after a few laps where they are weaker and stronger around the lap. You try to position yourself in the best possible way to attack them at a point they don't expect or at the point that they are just not as strong as you. That's how you try to get past.
