Jean Alesi Q&A

"It has been really difficult for me to change like that, but I'm really excited for this new chance, and I want to take it."



"When I won the F3000 championship with Eddie in 1989, he was looking to make an F1 team. And when he did that I believe he was thinking to pick me up one day. I saw his team coming into F1, and straight away doing a fantastic job. I drove for Ferrari, I drove for many teams, and now to be in his team is just a fantastic story."



"It's always difficult, but in the middle of the season you have no time obviously to make tests or these kinds of things. But what is good is to be in a Jordan."



"It's really different. I think the English teams are ahead in terms of organisation, in terms of the way to work, and any kind of other thing."



"Not better. Exactly like what I expected, which is good."



"When you are in my situation, I enjoy so much to drive at the moment, I don't care about what will happen. It's not that I don't care, I care a lot about what is happening now, but at the beginning of the season I was not expecting at all to be in Jordan in Hungary, so for next year maybe I will have the chance to drive again."



"Yes, if I have a chance to be able to do it."



"Actually you know I cannot say to you what I said to my engineer. You could not write it! It's fantastic. It gives you energy for driving the car, not just holding the steering wheel. When you have no power steering it's something unbelievable, you have no idea how hard it is."



"But in Benetton the system we had then was really primitive. If you had to make a correction, you were fighting the system."



"I'd rather not make a comment about that!"



"Yes, sure. Traction control is something you have to adjust over many hours. It's not something you do when you first drive. When you have traction control available, you need to have professional people to help you."



"You know, I don't want to be like a journalist who says OK, from the car there is that, from the tyres, the engine... It's not what I want to do. I'm just really impressed by the Honda engineers."



"In F1 history there are two big names, which are Ferrari and Honda. I drove for Ferrari and now I'm driving for Honda. When I drove for Ferrari, Honda was the target to beat, and now I've started driving for them. It's a big thing for me. I'm really proud of that."



"Honestly it's difficult to say anything about what happened, or friendship, especially when money is involved."



"That is not a trophy, but it means something. It's not something that you're looking for when you're doing your job, but it's going to be very good. In 200 races I've seen a lot of things. I've seen some drivers losing their lives, and that's obviously my worst memory."



"I will accept this!"