Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.
SEBASTIAN VETTELWhen 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.
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You can’t always say what you’d like to say.
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I don’t care what other people think as long as I am happy.
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The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous.
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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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If you are out in two races and someone else has a good couple of races, it could change. So all we do is try to get the optimum every time.
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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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Driving at high speed where safe and legal is part of my life. As well as a higher top speed I wanted even better stability in my FX and that meant work on the
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When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes people criticize you.
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The day I die or retire, I have blown all my chances because I don’t have the chance any more to change my image as an F1 driver.
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At the end of your life, it’s friendships, emotions and thoughts that you take with you, rather than what’s in your bank account.
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Thanks to BMW and WilliamsF1 for giving me this chance to test. The test team looked after me brilliantly and I learnt plenty.
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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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I put everything in that last lap, it was very emotional when I crossed the line. It was all I had, I gave it all.
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It’s a tricky place, especially the last sector. I wasn’t happy in practice. I wasn’t happy with the car and I wasn’t happy with myself. But I always thought there was more in the car.
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I come from an ordinary family – my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker – and we’ve always loved racing together.
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