Thanks to BMW and WilliamsF1 for giving me this chance to test. The test team looked after me brilliantly and I learnt plenty.
SEBASTIAN VETTELWhenever I have to do something, I try to minimise the time it takes me to do it. I just cannot wait.
More Sebastian Vettel Quotes
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You can’t change what happened. But you can still change what will happen.
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I don’t care what other people think as long as I am happy.
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When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes people criticize you.
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As a driver, your target is always to be with the most competitive team possible.
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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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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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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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You’re traveling all over the world but to be home is something special.
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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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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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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 found myself sitting in the RB7 and smiling.
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You can’t always say what you’d like to say.
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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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There are a few things that make me angry. Mostly things not going my way.
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Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.
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We 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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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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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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It was an unbelievable experience! The brakes, the g-forces and the power of the engine are beyond description.
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I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it.
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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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The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous.
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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 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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