I don’t care too much what happened in the past.
SEBASTIAN VETTELI found myself sitting in the RB7 and smiling.
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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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Generally I don’t care about what people say. I have to be clear with myself.
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There are a few things that make me angry. Mostly things not going my way.
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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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Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.
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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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Teams like Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes are going to be very, very motivated to go for the titles.
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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 come from an ordinary family – my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker – and we’ve always loved racing together.
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I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it.
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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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You can’t always say what you’d like to say.
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There are some things that you can fulfil with money, but at the end of the day these are not the things that make you happy. It is the small things that make life good.
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You’re traveling all over the world but to be home is something special.
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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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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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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.
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All these nice people saying I’m going to be world champion won’t make me any faster, you have to believe it yourself.
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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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So, even though people don’t have a lot here, they are a lot richer in many ways and we can learn from that.
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All in all it was a smooth race, the car was very well balanced. I’m very proud to be the first winner here in India.
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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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We have reason to feel good, but it’s also a threat to feel too good and I will pay attention that that doesn’t happen.
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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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After 10 weeks away from Formula One, when they started the engine here at Valencia and everything was vibrating,
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