I don’t care what other people think as long as I am happy.
SEBASTIAN VETTELI 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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You can’t always say what you’d like to say.
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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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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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You’re traveling all over the world but to be home is something special.
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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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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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When I went into the last lap I was regretting a bit that it was over. I was enjoying again the first sector for the last time.
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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’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 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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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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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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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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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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