I can’t believe we haven’t talked about Kimi Räikkönen yet

Yeah, I didn’t mean to leave him out. I think Kimi is actually the biggest natural talent I’ve come across. Ever. Just in terms of raw speed. And it shows in the car obviously, but it shows also in any other form of cars. If there was a discipline of switching cars every day, after ten days Kimi would be lapping everybody else. Just because, he’s just a natural, he doesn’t take time to adapt, to the car, to what the car acquires. You just give him a steering wheel and he knows what to do with that sort of pressure. Sometimes it feels unfair, you need to get used to it first and get an idea of the track or the conditions and for him it’s just BOOM.

Does that make him infuriating as a teammate?

No, because I think with him I probably had the best relationship out of all the teammates I had. Because he was just so straight forward. There was never an argument, if we crashed into each other, we talked about it, fixed what happened, maybe laughed about it. It was my mistake, it was his mistake. But then there was never a question that anything could sort of shake up or destabilize - I don’t want to say bond but - the relationship that we had. And he’s been probably also the one when I came in, I remember he was so respectful from the the day I walked in, you know, looking into my eyes. Where with other drivers I felt, ok I’m shaking hands and I’m saying hello but actually the guy is not present, he’s not here. So with people, I think Kimi has been exceptional.