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Parc fermé is basically an area where all cars must go directly after the race. It’s a kind of quarantine, the idea being that the cars can’t be touched or tinkered with by the team, while officials from the FIA check for legality issues.
Sarcasm, for example, is always a bad idea in a print interview.
Daniel Ricciardo’s one of my best mates left in the sport, and he’s podium gold. He’s got this shoe thing he does, a ‘shoey’, where he takes off his boot, pours champagne in it, drinks it and then makes other people drink it as well.
(tell you who takes a load of sugar in his tea: Lewis Hamilton, that’s who),
A few days after Singapore, it was officially announced, ending months of speculation, that Lewis was leaving to partner Nico Rosberg at Mercedes. Joining me as his replacement would be Sergio Pérez.
That meant that over the three years we’d been teammates, I had outscored him, with 672 points to 657. I counted myself more than happy with that.
Lewis was unbelievably quick and could pull a lap out of the bag just like that; him and Ayrton Senna were the two quickest guys over one lap, maybe ever, but Fernando was the more rounded driver.
Now that I’m no longer contractually forbidden I’m free to race in other categories. I enjoyed that rallycross experience, I’ve already dipped a toe in Super GT and I’d love to do Le Mans at some point – there’s so much out there. Just not Formula One. Not without Dad.
