Got to dash to my next interview! Thanks a lot for the questions - some very funny, some interesting and some quite strange! Thanks for supporting us this weekend at COTA

F1 is a great ahcievmeent as a driver to say you have have reached that level, but like any category of racing, if you can’t drive a car at the sharp end then it’s not fun. The differene with endurance racing is that there is always an opportunity to allow a good result and also driving the Toyota since 2012 has…

Good question. It’s true that you need luck in motorsport. The old motto ‘you make your own luck in this world’ is totally not true in motorsport, as we have proven this year. You just have some years like that in racing. You genuinely need luck to win a championship. The cars a re more technical than every before and…

There are few chicanes in the way before Mulsanne Corner nowadays compared to the old lay-out! It’s true you never really want to press the brake pedal but the good thing is that driving a hybrid car you are gaining mor eenergy when you do

It was definitely more emotional based than physically based. It took six months for the pain level to reduceto the point where I could drive again but it took quite a lot longer emotionaly to fully recover and to feel invicible behind the wheel again. that’s how you need to feel to go fast, you need to have no thougt…

My dad was always a motorsport fan but he could never afford to do it himself. When me and my brothers came along he got us into karting

I haven’t got one specific tack that I would say is my favourite. But circuits that spring to mind as being a good challenge are Spa, Silverstone, here in Austin, Suzuka. These are all great tracks. Also throw in Istanbul.

I wish I had the time to and I would if I could!

1. On a scale of paracetamol to anesthesia, how painful was that loss at Le Mans?

Well, we were showing them a clean pair of heels towards the end of the race at Le Mans so it’s very track dependent on where we have the preformance this year. If given another opportunity like we had at Le Mans I’m sure we can take the fight to them. But it’s not just Porsche, Audi have a very fast car this year as…

It’s a Lexus NX200T

The thing that impresses me this year about the TS050 compared to last year’s car is the increased in hybrid boost and how it affects the lap times.

They were genuinely disappointed for us and it was nice that not just team members but drivers came into our garage to pass on their commiserations and congratulate us on the job that we did. They knew it wasn’t a fair result, like everybody else.