After 10 weeks away from Formula One, when they started the engine here at Valencia and everything was vibrating,
SEBASTIAN VETTELWe 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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The track in Abu Dhabi is special; this will be our third Grand Prix there.
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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 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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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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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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There are a few things that make me angry. Mostly things not going my way.
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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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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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If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn’t lose focus. That made the difference.
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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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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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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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Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.
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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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I have always watched the Race of Champions on TV every year and dreamed about participating one day.
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