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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More Sebastian Vettel Quotes
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I don’t care what other people think as long as I am happy.
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You can’t always say what you’d like to say.
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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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You’re traveling all over the world but to be home is something special.
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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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The track in Abu Dhabi is special; this will be our third Grand Prix there.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.
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