Grid Position Quotes

That's the first time he had started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in Canada earlier this year.

I think what makes things interesting in Formula E, and I really hope it happens with me, is that many drivers are able to win the race. Maybe many drivers can win the championship.

I'm a fighter, I'm a winner, and I'm not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow.

We are not here for political reasons, we are here for sport, to fight for positions. That's the good thing about Formula One.

When you only qualify in 18th position, you have to take your chance off the grid.

F1 always feels unreal until you arrive and get your first seat.

I think the race went as well as it could and I drove well to finish sixth. The chassis is working better and through the corners we are more or less there; we'll move onto Europe and see if we can get further up the grid and keep improving. The weekend went pretty smooth for me until the end of the race, I don't know what happened, but the team will have a look at it.

The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

F1 weekends are full of things and any time that you have five minutes, you need to use it as well as possible to calm down.

It's been a big challenge to get into F1.