00:00I was just there yesterday.
00:02Oh!
00:03So I love France, yes, yes, of course.
00:07And of course I love Le Mans, I love the countryside.
00:10It's always been an honor for me to go to Paris.
00:14I first went there when I was 18 years old, by myself, and traveled around.
00:20I remember an agent by the name of Bob Bookman gave me this wonderful book called The Passages of France,
00:26which was about the history of France, and then The Great Journey, David McCullough book, talks about the history of
00:33it.
00:33And then as a race car driver, it was a dream of mine to race at Le Mans,
00:38and to be able to do that four times, to be on the podium as a pilot, was a dream
00:45come true.
00:46Because I remember, I think it was in 2006, I went to Le Mans for the first time as a
00:52fan.
00:52And I looked up at the podium and I was like, gosh, one day I hope I'm up there.
00:57And I remember the moment that I came out and I stood on the podium and realized that dream as
01:06a pilot.
01:06And then two years later, to stand on the top step as the team owner with a French driver who
01:14was his first time there was a remarkable experience.
01:18So France and the French people are very dear to me because of that experience.
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