I have always watched the Race of Champions on TV every year and dreamed about participating one day.
SEBASTIAN VETTELWhen 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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It was an unbelievable experience! The brakes, the g-forces and the power of the engine are beyond description.
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I don’t care too much what happened in the past.
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When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes people criticize you.
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I’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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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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Generally I don’t care about what people say. I have to be clear with myself.
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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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Whenever I have to do something, I try to minimise the time it takes me to do it. I just cannot wait.
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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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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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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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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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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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