The track in Abu Dhabi is special; this will be our third Grand Prix there.
SEBASTIAN VETTELI 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.
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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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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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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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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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 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 have always watched the Race of Champions on TV every year and dreamed about participating one day.
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You’re traveling all over the world but to be home is something special.
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Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.
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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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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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We always kept believing in ourselves and our team and the car.
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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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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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