He shrugged. "I realized, in the long run, their opinions don't really matter. There's only about six people who's opinions actually do matter to me right now. Seven if you count Chim-Chim." Which Speed did, even if not everyone else would.

"The public can turn on you in an instant," he added, recalling the incident at Fuji, when the press accused him of cheating, and almost everyone else started following suit. "It's better to focus on making the people who care about you proud. Anybody else is just a bonus."