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.
SEBASTIAN VETTELI have always watched the Race of Champions on TV every year and dreamed about participating one day.
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You’re traveling all over the world but to be home is something special.
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I found myself sitting in the RB7 and smiling.
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Of course, you always give 100 percent, but at a home race you’re always more motivated, simply because you feel at home.
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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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There are a few things that make me angry. Mostly things not going my way.
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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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Simply fantastic this circuit, and if you get 53 laps more, you appreciate it even more. It’s made by God’s hands.
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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 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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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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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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You can’t always say what you’d like to say.
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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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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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