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I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

Any finish at Le Mans is great but every time I go to Le Mans my mission is to win.

I never had any financial support or sponsors, and so I always had to, at every level, prove myself the hard way. I was five years in Japan before I got my debut at Le Mans. And I think this is a humble way to get through as a racing driver.

My proudest moments are beating Ferrari for the World Championship in 1965, and working with Ford to win Le Mans in 1966 and 1967.

Le Mans is such a great race because you can never do anything alone. You have to work as a team member. And being a team member makes you a better person.

'Le Mans' is the only racing movie that is totally realistic.

Le Mans takes the best out of everyone. Winning is important but it's not everything. It's such a big and great event in motorsport. You do more kilometres in that one race than Formula One do in a season, and probably a higher average speed. We average about 220km/h including pit stops and cover nearly 5000km.

My last race was at Le Mans in 2000, my first race was in 1959, so I dodged a lot of bullets along the way, I can tell you that.

I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

The trick at Le Mans is to get the car 'in the window.' Everything is critical: the tyre pressure, the brake temperature, and that means you have to push the car a lot to get it into the window - it's about getting everything to work right and getting the car to flow through the corners.

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