After Turkey, as much as the team denied it, it became slowly but painfully evident that Marko was pulling the strings. More than that: there was an agenda – his. I had been assured by Christian that as long as he and Adrian were at Red Bull I would be looked after. They said they wanted me to win races; they even wanted me to win the title and I believed them. I did wonder, though, what would happen if they weren’t there! That.

As a director and filmmaker, I love creating my own opportunity, and getting to share the love, in that way, by creating other opportunities for people that I admire, so that they can do something in a way they haven’t done it before.

When I’m driving I should make more of an effort with my iPod, but I’m too lazy to organise a playlist.

It’s really interesting for me as a filmmaker to go back and look at the films I’ve made and see where I was at that point in my life and also where my ideals were and the beliefs that I had and look at the ways I’ve grown and evolved and apply that to the next thing.

For me to train and get ready for racing, I can’t just sit in the gym all the time and that’s the way it is. Responsibility starts and stops with me. My main gig is grand prix driving, that’s what I do and I need to keep that in the forefront of my mind.

I think, as most people are, I’m fascinated with love, relationships, and my daily life so I’m very inclined to make films about those things.

I don’t really know what I’m ever looking for, it’s kind of like whatever happens to resonate at the time with me.

For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I’m going through at a time in my life.

Red Bull are backing a spinal-injury research charity called Wings For Life, which I am an ambassador for, with a programme called Faces for Charity that will run at this year’s British Grand Prix.

Sitting beside the pool is fine for two weeks, but after that I think it’d be quite hard to live with – so I need to keep racing.