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`4:46:39`

So I thought, ah man, I'm gonna have to miss it this year. I had like a, not a cast, it was just seriously sprained. And then somehow miraculously like a week before the event, I was like, yeah, actually it's okay now. So got to do it. And that would've been grave regret…

`4:47:41`

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…

`4:48:41`

I finished second that year, which should have been caused 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. — So that throw that into the pile of the things that have to be…

`4:49:42`

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…

`4:50:44`

— What are the things you're paying attention to when you're driving? What are the parameters? What are you loading in? Are you feeling the grip? Are you basically increasing the speed and seeing what like a constant feedback system effect that has on the grip and you're trying to manage that and try to…

`4:51:45`

that gives me the exact dimensions of this car just that I can run within a few inches of a competitor car or within a few inches of the wall and not hit either when things go well. The car is about two meters wide and it's quite long, five meters. And you can't see…

`4:52:47`

And modern race cars produce an absolute enormous amount of data, and you can analyze all that data after each outing. You can see an exact trace of how much you pushed the brake pedal, how much you did in terms of steering inputs. When you got on the gas, you can see every millisecond you're…

`4:53:49`

because you're passing slower classes or you're getting passed by a faster class. So that's part of the equation. And then you're trying to dance the car around the limit of adhesion. So you got all those factors playing at the same time. But above all else for me is to try to…

`4:54:51`

what does it take to achieve mastery in racing? Like what does it take to become the best race car driver in the world? — Obsession is part of it. When I read and hear about Senna and the other greats, they were just singularly focused. Max Verstappen is the current champion of the world and he is…

`4:55:53`

or movements in the chassis that transports up usually through their ass. That's why you call us like a butt meter that goes up and you feel like the car is loose or you feel like you're just about to lock up. You can really hone that tuning. Then the other thing is you have…

`4:56:53`

— There's some of that and some of it is also just nerve. Who wants it more? That's exactly when that sense of danger comes in. There's a great quote from Fernando Alonso when he was driving at Suzuka against Schumacher, I think. They're coming up to this incredibly fast corner. It's very…

`4:57:53`

What a sport. And then Senna, of course, is like a legendary risk taker. — Yes, and even before him, by the time, I mean he died in the '90s. But by the time we got to the '90s, racing was al already a lot safer than it was when Niki Lauda raced in the '60s. That level…

`4:58:54`

And it used to be quite different. There used to be more characters in racing that had a bit more personality that they were allowed to shine because there weren't a billion sponsorships on the line that they were afraid to lose. — Ridiculous question, what's the greatest car I ever made, or maybe what's…

`4:59:59`

was driving the Pagani Zonda F around. And I just thought, that's the most beautiful car in the world. It is the most incredibly sounding car in the world. If I one day have the option, this is what I want. And then I had the option in 2010, I've had the car ever since…

`5:01:00`

— Always. This is why I love having this car in Spain 'cause they're a little more relaxed. Not entirely relaxed, but more relaxed than they are in a lot of places. In Denmark, I kid you not, if you are on the highway and you go more than twice the speed limit, they confiscate your car…

`5:02:01`

which is by the way, very weird of Germans. They usually love rules. They usually very precise about it. And then they have this glorious thing called the Autobahn. There was a great case a couple of years ago where a guy took out a Bugatti Chiron; went 400 kilometers an hour on the Autobahn and he…

`5:03:02`

You can know if there's a dip. On a public road, you can't know if there's suddenly a pothole. Presumably there's not gonna be a pothole on the German Autobahn. but it does feel a little scary, but also exhilarating. Speed is just intrinsically really fun. I don't know anyone I've…

`5:04:02`

which as a percentage change is actually less than going from 150 to 160. But there's some sense of exponentiality once you get up to those limits where it's just on a complete different level. — Yeah, 'cause to me like 110, 120 feels fast. 200? that's crazy. — It really is crazy. — I gotta ask…

`5:05:03`

I like the Magic Keyboard. I like the single monitor. Apple makes an awesome 6K 32-inch XDR screen that I still haven't found anyone who've beaten that I still use, even though I switched away from Apple computers. I still use their monitor because it's just fantastic. But I've always been a…

`5:06:05`

sounding keyboard I've ever heard. I know there are a lot of connoisseurs of mechanical keyboards that'll probably contest me on this. This is too thy or too clicky or too clocky or whatever. But for me, the Lofree Flow84 is just a delight that I did not even know existed. Which is so funny…