“The money is an issue today as it always has been,” the 30-year-old told Crash.net Radio. “It's always been a rich man's sport, but it's more so now than ever before. I've been told by a few teams already that if I had €5 million I'd be in, so I checked and I couldn't find it; I looked down the back of the sofa, looked in my wallet, a few moths flew out but that was it – and on a serious note that's the position I'm in.
“With a lot of the bigger teams pulling out and only two main manufacturers left, it's difficult times and they're all looking for money, unfortunately. There's no other way you can look at it apart from looking at different sports, and it is the equivalent of Manchester United having a paying football player to play on their side – it just wouldn't happen. That's what's happening in F1 at the moment.