When you walk the track and you see a corner and realise you were going round it at 160mph, you wonder who could be so stupid to take a corner at that speed. But in the car, you don’t even think about that.
SEBASTIAN VETTELI was quite emotional when I finished my lap, but had to wait for other drivers to cross the line to hear whether I’d actually done it.
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After 10 weeks away from Formula One, when they started the engine here at Valencia and everything was vibrating,
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I didn’t know Dan Wheldon, but he was big in motorsport, and then this year I got to know Marco Simoncelli, so our thoughts are with them at the moment.
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We always kept believing in ourselves and our team and the car.
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I found myself sitting in the RB7 and smiling.
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There is no secret, once we go to qualifying, we all seem to enjoy it. Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. It’s like a rush, I really enjoy that.
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Motorsport is very expensive. No one cares if you had a good season two years ago and then you have an injury. It is a very dodgy investment.
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It’s fantastic to be invited; I’m so happy. To represent Team Germany together with Michael Schumacher is a great honor.
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It feels very special, but I acknowledge that the old master, Nigel Mansell, took his 14 poles from only 16 races.
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When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes people criticize you.
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If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn’t lose focus. That made the difference.
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When I went into the last lap I was regretting a bit that it was over. I was enjoying again the first sector for the last time.
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I don’t care what other people think as long as I am happy.
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I was quite emotional when I finished my lap, but had to wait for other drivers to cross the line to hear whether I’d actually done it.
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You can’t always say what you’d like to say.
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I remember my first test in F1. After five laps, I came back to the pits and tried to play it cool – ‘Oh yeah, I’m fine, I’m on top of this’ – but I was completely lost.
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