Q. Do you feel confident that the incident with the GT2-leading Corvette wasn't your fault?
AD: Did I make mistakes in the race? Yeah of course I did, you do when you're tired and it's four o'clock in the morning.
I'd like to talk about it because I hear the radio commentator here was a bit harsh on me. Maybe I said some things in the heat of the moment that I might regret. Obviously I never want to be a part of, or the reason why, someone's race might have ended at Le Mans, so I feel sorry for the Corvette guys. I didn't know that at the time... and I'm sorry for that.
But at the end of the day there was no contact between us. And I did that manoeuvre on many, many cars throughout the race and not once got into trouble. I was completely cool and fine with the overtaking manoeuvre, it was a legitimate pass, I was on the racing line and took the corner. Crashes do happen at Le Mans, it's cut-throat. It's very close and you have to react and make reactions some times and I think what happened there was just a slight over-reaction and it caught the Corvette by surprise.
I was none the wiser, for me it was just a normal passing move in the Porsche Curves, like I'd done to 50 or 60 other cars throughout the event. So I was a bit shocked when I was being accused of ending someone's race because I was just completely oblivious. I didn't even know that he had gone off because of me. Anyway, I think I might have said something like, 'I don't care' at the time, but what I was trying to say was that it wasn't my race, I'm not racing them so my care was getting my car back into the lead where we belonged.
I was told by my team to drive at 100 per cent and take risks because we knew we had to do that to have a chance. Also when you are in the lead of the race, like we were, you look in your mirrors more, you look at the blue flags more. Those guys know how to win a race and I'm sure someone else in a different situation wouldn't have been caught out by that.
All in the space of less than 60sec.
