In Curitiba Adrian Quaife-Hobbs became the third champion in Auto GP history, following in the footsteps of Romain Grosjean and Kevin Ceccon. Now that some days have passed, the briton was happy to share his thoughts with us. Here are his feelings, together with his expectations and plans for the future. More than one week has passed since the Curitiba round, how does being the Auto GP champion feels now that emotions have settled a bit?  Its an incredible feeling, its really huge once you cool down and you realize that you achieved the biggest goal you had at the start of the season. Furthermore we did even more, clinching the title with one round to go, something that we didnt deem possible six months ago, when the Series started. Its like seeing that all the efforts we I did with the team paid off, explaining how does that feel isnt easy. What do you feel an Auto GP season gave you in terms of experience, are you a different driver compared to last year?Surely I am a different driver, and I would say that Im a better one. In Auto GP you learn power and tyre management, something that is becoming crucial in GP2 and F1 and that you dont experience elsewhere.GP3 and F3 are great cars, but theyre underpowered and this means that when you get out of the corners you can hit the throttle without worrying about anything, neither wheelspin nor tyre wear. Auto GP is different: you need more feel from the driver to reach the limit, and you cant just push like a madman from flag to flag because if you do that the tyres wont make it.Kumho did a great job with the compounds, tyre wear is not so critical as its in GP2 and F1 but the trend is the same and managing the tyres is a key factor for the final result. So I feel much more prepared than before for the next steps of my career.Anyway, Adrian still feels that his 2012 duties arent over yetWe still have one race weekend in Sonoma, and we want to finish the season on a high: obviously after clinching the title losing focus could be easy, but that wont happen because we still have one goal to meet: the Teams title. SuperNova is leading and I absolutely want them to seal the crown because it would be another reward for their great job. Besides that, Im not happy of what happened in Brazil so I really want to close the season with a win, possibly two.Things didnt go to plan in Brazil. Did you realize what went wrong there?While I dont like speaking about bad luck, I think that fate had something to do with that. Just look at the issue we had at the Race 1 pit-stop: we practiced hundreds of times both at home and at the track and we never had that wheel-nut problem. Concerning my mistake in Race 2, there could be more than one reason for that: I was coming from a very long stint and the tyres had just started to drop in performance, my last lap was 15 worse than our previous pace and the rears were starting to lock under braking. But I dont like making up excuses, even with all that it was still my mistake. It can happen when youre pushing, and I was. Throughout the season we never played it safe, our aim has always been winning races, and Curitiba wasnt different: I was leading and I knew with a trouble-free tyre change I would have left the pits 3 ahead of Pizzonia, so while I wasnt under pressure I was still pushing. Anyway, whatever happened, people shouldnt forget that in Brazil we were still the ones to beat. In Curitiba I got the 5th pole in six events, and our race pace was again the quickest.Curitiba was the only down moment of a season that had many highs. What was the best moment of your Auto GP campaign?Well, there were so many that picking just one is really difficult, and I can think about two that are more or less on the same level. One obviously is Portimo, where we got the perfect weekend: getting pole, two wins and the fastest lap of both races was something that nobody had ever done before in the Championship, not even Grosjean, so it was really an important achievement for us. For me it was also a personal goal I did set for myself in order to push even harder and give 100% all the time.The second great moment was my qualifying lap in Hungary: we decided to stop after just 5 laps, with 20 to go, as we had a 18 gap on the closest competitor. It took the whole session for them to get closer but I still clinched pole and even managed to save a set of tyres for the races. It was a real display of dominance from us, and from a drivers point of view it was a great feeling, maybe even better than the perfect weekend.Can you see any turning point in your season, a moment when you realized that you were going to win the Championship?We were always competitive, but I would say that there was an evolution after Valencia and Marrakech, because in both weekends we struggled with the softer compound. In Valencia it was the softs, while in Marrakech we really didnt manage to make the supersofts work, up to the point that we decided to use them as little as possible and nearly complete two races with just one set of medium tyres. We realized that we had an issue with making the most of the softer tyres, so we worked really hard on it before Budapest and the team came up with a solution that worked as we expected. From then on, I dont remember of one single occasion where we werent the quickest on track, so we could say it was a turning point.The first Auto GP Champion, Romain Grosjean, is now a rising star in Formula 1. What are your plans for the future?Getting down the Grosjean route, completing one season in GP2 and then getting to F1 would be the dream plan, but its not an easy one. It depends from the budgets, from the eventual support you can get from manufacturers, everything has to fall in place. The only thing I can do to help the process is driving as quick as I can and win races. Its what I did and  what I will try to do in the future, in Sonoma first and then in 2013.