"There it was hard racing as well. I have always enjoyed racing with Max. Tough racing is always cool to me, side-by-side, being very close - that is what racing is all about and there is nothing else that makes me that excited."
"In this transition from 2014 to 2015, I was on the phone constantly calling Toto [Wolff] at the time and asking him if there were any solutions for me."
"I'd met him during that year, because I won with a Mercedes engine in F3, and with Toto and Fred Vasseur, we found a solution for us to be able to continue racing and to race in GP3 - and I won that title as well."
"So I got into the Mercedes Junior Programme. From there on, it was back on route but from Max not winning the title and then finishing third and then going into F1 and then me not even having an option to continue racing, that was tough to swallow."
"I was very pissed off in those times. That was very difficult. To me, it was not fair... not saying that I would go to F1 because I always believed that my time would come if I put hard work in, got the results."
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