I have to say, it's taking a while for the fact that I finally won the Le Mans 24 Hours with Team Peugeot Total to sink in. You know, standing on the top step of the podium didn't feel too much different from being there the previous two years with Aston Martin Racing.

It wasn't until I got home and saw I had hundreds of emails from people all over the world offering their congratulations that I started to think of what it means to have actually won Le Mans. Being swamped with messages from so many people, it was then I realised the significance of that win and what it means to have actually won Le Mans. So, to be honest, at the moment I am just a bit taken back and struggling to absorb it all.

When I saw the level of support I had, it dawned on me that to win Le Mans is great but something that is greater than that is the actual response I've had from people. It has meant more to me than the victory itself, which is saying something. While I have this opportunity there are so many people in my life, that I have worked with and interacted with, who have just been fantastic. I obviously massively appreciate everyone's good wishes. It certainly means a lot.

The race itself was one of the most tactical races I have done at Le Mans. This race, for me, was not going to be won with sheer speed. You had to be quite smart about the way you drove, the way you treated the car and got through traffic.

Obviously a huge amount of preparation goes into this massive event and I have been working with Peugeot Sport towards Le Mans for the last six months. With that in mind I, together with Marc [Gene], Alex [Wurz] and our engineer, had a pretty good idea of how to attack the race well beforehand. Some of that strategy had to be adjusted. Our front brakes were wearing too quickly so we had to adapt our driving styles to get the brakes through to the end of the race. In some ways it might have been a blessing, as we had to drive to save the car. While other people were having problems all around us, we just kept on going and going and going.

It was a flawless effort by the #9 crew and that's how you've got to win Le Mans, just as I have won the GT1 class there for the past two years. I had two great team mates that never made a mistake and a crew who were faultless in the pit stops.

When I got the call from Peugeot, saw who I was paired with and that it was the third year of the Peugeot programme, I thought this could really be my year. It felt like we had a great shot and the race went exactly as we planned it.

Aside from Christian Klien, Marc and Alex were the only drivers in the Peugeot line-up I didn't know that well. When I was placed with Marc and Alex I knew that it was a great opportunity to get to know them and work with them. As we worked towards the race you could really get a sense that we were all on the right track.

When you have pairings with other drivers from different championships all coming together to drive the same car, the chemistry has to work. You've got to work out who's got the biggest ego, who doesn't. Who's going to play what role and who will be the driving force. There is really a set plan on how that should be done. I was very aware of how the chemistry needed to work for our team to work, to actually be efficient. We got on great and we got on with the job. It was a pretty good combined performance.