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.
SEBASTIAN VETTELI’m very proud to be the first winner of the Indian Grand Prix, but then on the other hand we recently lost two of our mates.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Generally I don’t care about what people say. I have to be clear with myself.
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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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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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I don’t care too much what happened in the past.
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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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It was an unbelievable experience! The brakes, the g-forces and the power of the engine are beyond description.
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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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Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.
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