But, on a different subject, I think nobody is really irreplaceable. Obviously, a driver is one part of that success, and Carl always seems to be able to find the right guy for the job, and it doesn't necessarily need to be
Sebastien Bourdais, I guess. It's been other people before, and obviously great names, between Michael, Mario and Nigel and Cristiano, and I'm sure they'll find someone else that can get it done just as well and build a new group and start a new adventure.
Q
If I could ask a follow‑up, sort of along the same lines. Obviously, you spent the year as a team-mate with Graham Rahal, and Graham, not just this year but in the past, has showed great potential. I think he would certainly agree that he didn't always realise that potential on race day for one reason or another. I mean, and yet he's only 18, next year he'll be 19. What have you seen from him this year that leads you to believe that he'll sort of be able to step into your shoes as sort of a team leader?
SB:
Well, I've seen a young man obviously who's got a very big talent, who's grown up extremely fast. In that field you've got to, otherwise you don't last very long, and he's very mature. In the meantime, he's also shown that, if he doesn't start always super‑fast off the bat, he could learn very quickly and very often in the Saturday morning practice session he was getting very close and sometimes just as fast as we were. So I think he's obviously going to be on that trophy of drivers who can compete to win the championship next year. He has one year of relationship with the team already. I'm sure they'll be even better prepared than anyone else to get the job done.
Q:
Sebastien, you went from being the rookie very quickly to being a top challenger and then the champion, and then you were almost expected to win. It got to be that way in recent years. From your point of view, did that present any particular pressure? Was that a difficult thing to deal with? How do you look at that?
SB:
I don't know, but it kind of took some of the fun away in some respects because when you finish second and you think you've had a pretty decent day, and maybe you were not the best on that particular day, but you did put in a pretty good performance and people are starting to say, what happened to you, you only finished second today, that is a little difficult to deal with, I have to say.
