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.
SEBASTIAN VETTELI have always watched the Race of Champions on TV every year and dreamed about participating one day.
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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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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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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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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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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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When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes people criticize you.
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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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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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It was an unbelievable experience! The brakes, the g-forces and the power of the engine are beyond description.
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You’re traveling all over the world but to be home is something special.
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I don’t care what other people think as long as I am happy.
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I found myself sitting in the RB7 and smiling.
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There are a few things that make me angry. Mostly things not going my way.
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We always kept believing in ourselves and our team and the car.
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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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You can’t always say what you’d like to say.
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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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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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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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You can’t change what happened. But you can still change what will happen.
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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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Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.
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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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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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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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The track in Abu Dhabi is special; this will be our third Grand Prix there.
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