Quotes from Nico Hulkenberg

I am happy to come back to Sahara Force India.

I've always enjoyed visiting India and we usually go to Mumbai or Delhi a few times during the season. It's a shame there is no race in India because it's a great facility and I always enjoyed racing there.

Sometimes I think I'm a bit impatient, and a bit more patience would help me in some cases.

Winning Le Mans didn't change my career, but it definitely gave me a boost.

When I was 7-years-old I, discovered Go-Karts and started Karting, since then I thought to be an F1 driver, that was pretty much buried into my head.

I'm not superstitious.

We always see that the gaps in qualifying are surprisingly close but then in the race suddenly it is like a second or something.

Bring it on - we all cook with water, I'm not scared of anyone.

Nowadays you need a strong aero package, a good aerodynamic car, but also mechanically you cannot afford to have poor suspension. It all goes together as a package and you have to have harmony in the car.

My first pole position is an emotional and hopefully historic moment as I want to be in F1 for many, many years.

You don't get that opportunity everyday to do Le Mans with Porsche, a brand that has so much tradition and history. So I just grabbed the opportunity while it was there.

I love being at home! We travel a lot so I really enjoy being at home, having a lazy day on the couch, watch a couple of movies, meet friends, cook dinner, go to the cinema, play tennis.

It's very difficult to predict a team's competitiveness.

I never had the help of money in the background - it could be the cherry on the top a little bit - whereas some others had that to offer.

You've got to distribute the tyre life over the stint, I think that's the main limiting factor, more than car balance.

I think new regulations create a reset for all teams.

I'm in the factory a lot so I see how hard the guys work, but you never really know how quickly and effectively the other teams' development programmes are going until you get to the track. It's only then that we will be able to tell.

It's important to drive consistently to evaluate changes that are made to the car. You need to be very accurate with your feedback and communicate as much information as possible.

Monza is special. It's a high-speed track that pushes the car to the limit: it may look easy but the margin for error when braking for the chicanes is very small and you end up paying heavily for every mistake.

I don't want to just stay desperately in Formula 1. That's not my style, that's not what I'm looking for. After 10 years in Formula 1 that's not what I'm after.

I'm not desperate to stay in Formula One. It needs to be sensible and it needs to be the right deal.

I'd like to thank the management at Force India for giving me the chance to return to Formula One as a team driver.

I'm pretty excited to be racing for Williams. They're real racers.

Of course it's a nice challenge to compete against a grand prix winner.