Sunday, October 1st: "What a race! Honestly, I would never have expected that. This morning during the briefing the windows were open and it rained and rained outside and all of us thought: oh dear, what's gonna happen here... And then I won, that's amazing. I was quite surprised that I could keep up with the pace of the cars in front of me right from the start, we hadn't expected that. But then I started to close the gap bit by bit. It was important that we didn't switch tyres during the first pit-stop, that was a good decision on our part. And the second stop and the change to slicks was perfect, it had just started to be dry enough. When Fisico switched his and came back onto the track on slicks I knew that he would have some problems taking the first turn. Everybody more or less had some problems there because in the beginning the tyres are cold and there is not very much grip. I knew I had to seize the opportunity and I drove onto the grass a little bit to avoid a collision. It worked out great. It was a fantastic race and winning was fabulous because I hadn't expected to. Because I had gone into the race thinking all I could do was try and keep the damage to a minimum..."
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