Yeah, it has been a very special day and to finish it in this style as we have been doing today, looking at the championship as well ,but much more at what’s going to happen somehow in future. There’s been a lot of discussion for a long time concerning my future and so on and I think all the fans all the people interested in motor sport, they have a right to have explained to them what’s going to happen. I’m sorry it may have taken longer than some of you wanted but you have to savor a moment.
To make it short in a way, this is going to be my last Monza race that I’m going to do. At the end of this year, I’ve decided together with the team, what I’m going to retire from racing. It has been an exceptional, really exceptional time, what motor sport has given to me in more than thirty years. I’ve really loved every single moment of the good and the bad times. Those ones make life so special.
In particular, I should thank my family, starting, obviously, with my Dad, my passed-away mum and obviously my wife and my kids who, at all times, supported what I was doing, and without their support, without their strengths to survive in this business and this sport, and to perform, I think would have been impossible, and obviously I can’t be thankful enough, obviously to my family but also to my mates from the Benetton time and obviously, specially in the Ferrari days when I have made so many friends.
I have so many great guys in that team and it has been a really tough decision to decide to not work together at this level with all my friends, my engineers, everybody. They are just so great but one day, the day has to come and I felt that at one point that this is the moment as well as, in terms of timing the decision, I thought that it was fair to find that moment so that Felipe has a chance to decide his future, because I think he is a very great guy. He has been doing a very good job for the team, very supportive, a really great teammate, and there was a moment for him to decide for his future, and there was no point for me to make my decision any later than his decision had to be taken and this was the conclusion.
As well as in a way my future replacement, it’s a driver—at some stage the team will tell you what I was always pleased and I knew a long time age—to hear that he was the person, and now I would just like to concentrate in these last three wins and finish it in style, and hopefully with the championship, we have made a big step today for this and I really look forward, and I want to thank everybody who has been in my way or supporting me at all stages. They have been a lot of people. thank you very much.
To make it short in a way, this is going to be my last Monza race that I’m going to do. At the end of this year, I’ve decided together with the team, what I’m going to retire from racing. It has been an exceptional, really exceptional time, what motor sport has given to me in more than thirty years. I’ve really loved every single moment of the good and the bad times. Those ones make life so special.
In particular, I should thank my family, starting, obviously, with my Dad, my passed-away mum and obviously my wife and my kids who, at all times, supported what I was doing, and without their support, without their strengths to survive in this business and this sport, and to perform, I think would have been impossible, and obviously I can’t be thankful enough, obviously to my family but also to my mates from the Benetton time and obviously, specially in the Ferrari days when I have made so many friends.
I have so many great guys in that team and it has been a really tough decision to decide to not work together at this level with all my friends, my engineers, everybody. They are just so great but one day, the day has to come and I felt that at one point that this is the moment as well as, in terms of timing the decision, I thought that it was fair to find that moment so that Felipe has a chance to decide his future, because I think he is a very great guy. He has been doing a very good job for the team, very supportive, a really great teammate, and there was a moment for him to decide for his future, and there was no point for me to make my decision any later than his decision had to be taken and this was the conclusion.
As well as in a way my future replacement, it’s a driver—at some stage the team will tell you what I was always pleased and I knew a long time age—to hear that he was the person, and now I would just like to concentrate in these last three wins and finish it in style, and hopefully with the championship, we have made a big step today for this and I really look forward, and I want to thank everybody who has been in my way or supporting me at all stages. They have been a lot of people. thank you very much.
