“Life is dangerous,” he says, “and here’s some bad news — we’re all going to die. But hopefully at the end of a long life, and hopefully after having a lot of fun.”
DC, as he’s known to pretty much everyone, won 13 Grands Prix over 15 seasons, mostly with McLaren, and as you’d imagine, he has some stories to tell. “I had a crash at Silverstone in 1995 and got knocked out. I hit the barrier, which had wooden sleepers, and my head smashed the side of the…

