Quotes from Kevin Magnussen

I was a welder for about three or four months, and I was lucky enough to get out of it because there was a guy who wanted to support me and pay for my racing.

I'm lucky to have very close friends that I've had since childhood.

I don't like compromises. I will give everything.

I don't look at social media, I have some people who look after it so whenever I want to post anything I send it to those guys so I don't have to look at the apps.

If you come to Formula One you have already proved that you are able to adapt and learn and be fast.

I didn't go to school that much! I was racing go karts and testing nearly every day, so school wasn't the first priority.

I'm not getting penalised for pushing, I'm penalised for going over the limit of what's legal and what's within the rules.

I don't see myself as a tough person off the track, I see myself as friendly, open and calm.

But amongst the drivers I don't have friends at all. They are not my friends. It would never work to have a friendship, so I don't make any effort to make friends.

It's frustrating that you only have one or two, maybe three drivers that you can root for who are winning.

F1 has been my dream since I was a kid. I am here. That feeling of having achieved that and a step in my life's dream of winning the championship - there is no way I wouldn't work extremely hard - I put the time in.

I'm not here for anything other than world championships. I don't want to be here driving around and finishing races and scoring points. I only want to win and if I can't do that - if I can't see that I have a future with wins and championships - then I'm not up for Formula One, I'll do something else where I can win.

I don't want to die in a race car.

Success to me obviously isn't having accidents or getting penalties but finishing races as high a position as possible.

When I go to small races in Denmark, it's what I imagined what F1 would have been like back in the 60s and 70s. After the 70s it became a bit different. But 50s and 60s at least, people were only there because they love it.

When you go to club racing in Denmark, people spend money to buy a race car and go and race, and many don't actually really have the money, but they spend it anyway because they love it and that's why I like those kind of things.

What matters to me is that I get the most out of myself and my racing.

I am living my childhood dream of racing in Formula 1 and I've put my whole life into achieving that dream so it is only natural for me to be giving absolutely everything I've got, to achieve success in racing and the day I no longer do that I will retire from racing immediately.

I obviously hope that I can continue my career with McLaren but that might not be possible and if it isn't possible then I need to continue racing.

I love racing, I love racing everything really - karts, anything - so I do need to keep doing that. But the focus is on Formula One.

I grew up with my mum, so I'm very, very close to her. But I'm close to my dad as well, and we talk about racing a lot, as we share that passion. I guess that's quite normal.

I thought I'd become a welder if my racing career ended.

I'm a racing driver and I need to race, that's what I do.

If I had one wish, I would say to be born in the '30s and be young in the '50s and '60s. It hurts my racing heart when I see things so far from what it was back then. I envy those guys so much.