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It's very tough to choose the race of my life, because there are two. There's winning the Formula 1 world championship at Jerez in 1997 and the Indy 500 in '95. Even though winning the F1 championship against Michael Schumacher was extreme, and it was an incredible race with so much tension and pressure, the Indy 500 was even better.
At Team Green we called it the 505 instead of the 500 because of the two-lap penalty we had. So much happened in that race, and that made it so special.
Normally, Indy is a race where you don't drive to the limit. It's a long race, it's dangerous. But there we were, two laps down, and I had to do qually laps the whole way through. And you don't normally do that, not in those days anyway because the race wasn't flat-out.
