Nico Rosberg

Great to be here and thanks for making your way all the way to Monaco.

Both.

I was running towards my dream, which started as a very young child watching my father race.

He was at the time driving in the European Touring Car Championship and it was incredible.

And that's where the dream started for me, that I would also want to be a professional race car driver.

My father was managing Mika Häkkinen's career.

Mika Häkkinen became a two-time world champion.

So I was watching that very closely.

And all that together was okay.

I wish I could be that one day myself.

But it seemed impossible because those guys were like gladiators.

It's like impossible to get there myself.

But that's where the dream started.

So I was running towards that dream.

But then also once I did get there, the further I got along, it's also running away from failure and failing.

So that was like one of the big driving forces was like trying to do everything I could to avoid failure and to win.

That's where it's the most pronounced because you're close to the top of Everest and almost anything you do is a step back down, which is failure.

So that's where it actually gets the most intense and the most scary in a way.

It's proper scary to fail when you're all the way up there.

Crossing the line, first of all, there was just relief.