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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More Sebastian Vettel Quotes
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When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes people criticize you.
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There are a few things that make me angry. Mostly things not going my way.
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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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You can’t change what happened. But you can still change what will happen.
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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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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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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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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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I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it.
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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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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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Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.
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We always kept believing in ourselves and our team and the car.
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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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I have always watched the Race of Champions on TV every year and dreamed about participating one day.
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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 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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I found myself sitting in the RB7 and smiling.
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I don’t care too much what happened in the past.
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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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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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It was an unbelievable experience! The brakes, the g-forces and the power of the engine are beyond description.
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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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As a driver, your target is always to be with the most competitive team possible.
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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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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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