David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

It's an extremely fast, very difficult corner.

And just as he does the compression, his car basically sets out and he loses his power steering and he drives straight into the wall and breaks both his legs and basically faced the prospect that maybe his career was over.

I've had other teammates and people I know have serious injuries that's really hurt them.

And yet what's funny, as you say, you'd think that would sink in.

The...

Year before we won in 2014, that same car had a Danish driver in it at Le Mans at the race I was driving who died.

He lost control of the car when there was a bit of rain on the track.

And the track was unfortunately designed in such a poor way that there was a very big tree right behind the railing.

And he died.

hit that tree at full speed, pulled 90 Gs and was dead on the spot, which was just such an extremely awful experience to go through.

I finished second that year, which should have been cause for a bunch of celebration, but it was just tainted by the fact that not only did a driver die, a fellow Dane died, a guy I knew died,

That was pretty tough.

Even just last year at Le Mans.

It was raining and I was out.

And I hadn't made a serious mistake at the 24 Hours of Le Mans since I did the first race in 2012, where I put it in the sand trap with like four hours to go.

And we lost a couple of laps getting pulled out, but it didn't actually change anything for our result because that was just how the field was spread out.

I'd made minor mistakes over the years, but nothing that really set us out.

And at the race last year,

when it was raining.

I first clobbered a Ford Mustang when I made an overambitious pass on a damp part of the track and couldn't stop in time and then felt absolutely awful as I sat in the gravel pit for two laps and knew that our race was over, a race where we were highly competitive.