For my career, I wouldn't go racing if I didn't enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

I did suffer a lot since karting, with my size and everything, not really having a clue what to do when I started karting. So I suffered in every category: F4, F3, F2. Not so much F2 but I've had to kind of play catch-up quite a bit and in some ways, F1 was a bit nicer with power steering.

If I want to do well in racing I need to be more focused so I stopped going to school. If I wasn't a very good driver it would not be a wise decision, but it gives me an advantage over my competitors.

There are going to be things I'm not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

I enjoy driving on the sim, doing stuff like that, staying at home.

I don't like drinking, basically.

If I make a mistake and finish 10th when we should have finished ninth, then I will be unhappy.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

It seems like F1 is kind of going down that route, opening it up more to the public and letting them know what is going on, what you do, instead of just driving and going home.

I'm definitely more one of the drivers who would want to do Daytona, Le Mans, and the Indy 500.

My favourite car I drove in the 'shoot out' at Silverstone was the 2016 Mercedes DTM car. I loved every moment in it, the downforce being particularly surprising.

It's not like I'm nervous of people seeing what I can or can't do on camera or on TV or anything, or what my engineers think.

I saw MotoGP on TV first, before I saw F1 and other types of car racing. It's what I got more into. It was cool, there was good, exciting racing.

I've missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

I don't like going to the gym. My biggest focus is the neck and endurance. I wear this 'Fifty Shades of Grey' harness, with a resistance trainer pulling against it.

Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.

I tend not to really think about what other people say. I'd rather just try and focus on what I'm doing, try and win basically.

How you go about testing is just very different to just being in the situation of qualifying, having to go out, having to nail the lap.

I don't know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

I like to paint my own helmets. I design my own suit and boots, I like being unique in that way.

Every driver is different, so I just hope whatever I do is going to be good enough, because it's not that I just want to be with McLaren. I want to win with McLaren.

In testing, you make a mistake, you just say 'OK we'll have another go' instead of it being the only chance you get.

It's rule number one, really - beating your teammate.