• Julia from Germany wants to know: Do you have any tattoos, like Mika or Kimi, or do you not like tattoos?

    I don't have any tattoos, but would like to have a little one, somewhere, I don't know yet, I've been looking for a good one for a little while, but I had not found the one yet. When you go from the different countries and different cities all the time sometimes you see little places where you could do a little tattoo. I've got nothing against them. I don't think I want to have a big one, only a small one, and it will be on my wrist, on my shoulder, on my ankle, or something like that. Little one would be quite cool. One day I'll probably have one.

  • You should design your own!

    Yeah, I'm not a great designer, but it will take time, and it's not a priority at the moment, so I'm just waiting for a good one, and if I get spare time I'll start designing myself.

  • Ok! One of your fans, Mika from Romania, wants to know about your friendship with Kimi, your fellow Finn. You said Kimi is a good friend of yours, how do you get along with each other, knowing that he doesn't say very much? Is he another person in his free time, or is it you, your good mood and your intelligence that makes him talk?

    [laughs] no, I don't think so, it's definitely not the second one. Kimi is chatty, he is a really nice guy. I think, people just get a "racing" Kimi very often, the one, who is focused on racing, who is not interested in anything else, and that is when Kimi is quiet, he talks to his engineers, he talks to his mechanics, I'm sure, you know, he's very determined and focused on his job, but when we are sometimes outside the tracks he is a very friendly, very nice guy, and one of the nicest drivers on the grid in my opinion, not only because he's Finnish, but because he's genuine guy, there is no bullshit with him, he's very straightforward. We do get on well, but we don't see each other very often, he's based in Switzerland, and I am at the moment in Oxford, UK, so we don't cross paths too often, but we call each other sometimes, and on the track there been some races like Montreal or Indianapolis when if we had a chance we spend a day doing something but anyway, he's very cool, and it's not that I'm so clever to make him talk [laughs]

  • Another one from your fans, Stijn from Holland, wants to know, basically, he said, I think you're the most friendly and realistic F1 driver in the paddock, how important are the fans to you?

    Yes, they are very important, and I'm always friendly, I always feel that this is the best way for me to work. There is a difference between being friendly and being someone who is just nodding his head all the time, like "yeah, yeah…" when other people are controlling you. I'm definitely not letting other people to control my doing, when I work, you know, like I said sometimes people might find me difficult to deal with as sometimes I don't have any energy or any time to do anything with the fans. It's not that I suddenly changed; it's just because I have something else to do. But the fans are important for me, and every time I have time and opportunity I'd like to do something for them, I'm very friendly and happy to sign autographs and posters, take some photos, this kind of stuff, it's not a problem for me, and I enjoy doing it.

  • I'm sure the fans understand that you're very focused as well when you're working…

    You know, in Formula-1 it is important, you know, some people say, you know, he's too nice a guy to win and to do well. People who know me when I'm working sometimes can tell that I'm not so nice and I can say things straight to the engineers and the mechanics and they say things very straight to me. You know, it's a pretty tough world, in Formula-1, and you have to be very very tough mentally to deal with it, and that's why being over-friendly is not good. I think that even a nice guy can still do a good job and win races and championships, you don't have be a bad guy, to do it.