Allan McNish

You know, crikey, I've got Will Sand in here.

He's going to be looking at me with this sort of nervous look on his face saying, no, do not say that one.

It's very good when you've been around this sport for so long and you've seen so many things.

Some of them are cringeworthy when you look back on them, to be honest with you.

The one that I shared with Gabby was actually crashing on the way to the grid.

in Petit Le Mans and it wasn't a funny story, it was a really frustrating story because I shunted on the way to the grid and I walked into the motorhome while they were repairing the car and Dindo Cabello, my longtime teammate, walked in all happy saying, everything okay?

I said, okay, have you looked at it?

The thing's in two pieces, the gearbox is off the back and they repaired it but the moral of the story was we went on and we won the race.

So, you know, it's not what happens, it's about how you recover.

And now I can look back on it and think of it as quite funny at times.

At the time, I was kicking anything that was sort of in that front of that motorhome.

But, yeah.

Well, in so many different ways.

Now we're talking about doing a season of 24 races.

And 66% of those are outside of Europe.

Back then, you were doing a season of 17 races, of which 66% were within Europe.

So just the sheer workload.

We had open testing then.

I think I did 45 days of testing on my own.

Not the teammate, not the test drivers or anyone else.