saymyname
20-06-2005, 04:59 PM
Question: What was your first car?
Answer: "A Fiat 500. It was my father's. It was so old (that) you couldn't run it on the road, but where we lived (in Germany) there were not official roads. So that was my car and I drove it. I was 8 years old."
Q: What is your favorite passenger car today?
A: "The new (Ferrari) 430. Very lovely; I got it a month ago. The 360 was a great car. But the 430 is such a step up."
Q: What is your favorite non-Ferrari?
A: "I used to have an Audi RS6 that I liked very much. It's probably 25 percent of the fun of the 430."
Q: Is the 430 25 percent of the fun of your F-1 car?
A: "Maybe 10 percent."
Q: Is driving in the U.S. more fun than in Europe?
A: "In a way, yes and no. You have speed limits in Europe, as well, except in Germany. That's good fun, but then we have so much traffic that you can't really drive fast. Here you have some big highways, great roads, and you have this very nice speed limit."
Q: What do you think of the driving in NASCAR?
A: "To me, it looks like it's much more tactic than skill of driving. It doesn't matter to go pull a gap because you're going to have a yellow flag."
Q: Are race car drivers athletes?
A: "Very often I play soccer with the athletes, and I'm not looking too bad. Look at (rifle) shooting: It's very high-level concentration, not a high-level of effort. Our sport is a combination of that."
Q: Speaking of soccer, wasn't one of your sports heroes a soccer, uh, football player?
A: "Yes, Tony Schumacher, a goalkeeper. I told all my schoolmates that I was (his) little nephew. I met him some years after when I was in Formula One, and he was quite amused."
Q: What did you do on your week-long trip to Montana a few weeks ago?
A: "Fly fishing, riding horses, motorcycling, riding (four-wheelers), clay shooting."
Q: Does your contract prevent you from doing anything?
A: "No. Enjoy as much as you can, but be careful."
Q: Anything humorous happen on your trip?
A: "Yes, actually. We were in Yellowstone (National Park) watching a bear, some sort of grizzly. I turn around and see some people sitting in the motor home and I tell them, in English, 'There's a bear.' I get back in my car and my wife said, 'Look, it's a German (license) plate.' They were German people. No wonder they looked at me kind of strange."
Answer: "A Fiat 500. It was my father's. It was so old (that) you couldn't run it on the road, but where we lived (in Germany) there were not official roads. So that was my car and I drove it. I was 8 years old."
Q: What is your favorite passenger car today?
A: "The new (Ferrari) 430. Very lovely; I got it a month ago. The 360 was a great car. But the 430 is such a step up."
Q: What is your favorite non-Ferrari?
A: "I used to have an Audi RS6 that I liked very much. It's probably 25 percent of the fun of the 430."
Q: Is the 430 25 percent of the fun of your F-1 car?
A: "Maybe 10 percent."
Q: Is driving in the U.S. more fun than in Europe?
A: "In a way, yes and no. You have speed limits in Europe, as well, except in Germany. That's good fun, but then we have so much traffic that you can't really drive fast. Here you have some big highways, great roads, and you have this very nice speed limit."
Q: What do you think of the driving in NASCAR?
A: "To me, it looks like it's much more tactic than skill of driving. It doesn't matter to go pull a gap because you're going to have a yellow flag."
Q: Are race car drivers athletes?
A: "Very often I play soccer with the athletes, and I'm not looking too bad. Look at (rifle) shooting: It's very high-level concentration, not a high-level of effort. Our sport is a combination of that."
Q: Speaking of soccer, wasn't one of your sports heroes a soccer, uh, football player?
A: "Yes, Tony Schumacher, a goalkeeper. I told all my schoolmates that I was (his) little nephew. I met him some years after when I was in Formula One, and he was quite amused."
Q: What did you do on your week-long trip to Montana a few weeks ago?
A: "Fly fishing, riding horses, motorcycling, riding (four-wheelers), clay shooting."
Q: Does your contract prevent you from doing anything?
A: "No. Enjoy as much as you can, but be careful."
Q: Anything humorous happen on your trip?
A: "Yes, actually. We were in Yellowstone (National Park) watching a bear, some sort of grizzly. I turn around and see some people sitting in the motor home and I tell them, in English, 'There's a bear.' I get back in my car and my wife said, 'Look, it's a German (license) plate.' They were German people. No wonder they looked at me kind of strange."