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.
SEBASTIAN VETTELOf 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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As a driver, your target is always to be with the most competitive team possible.
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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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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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Simply fantastic this circuit, and if you get 53 laps more, you appreciate it even more. It’s made by God’s hands.
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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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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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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’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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The track in Abu Dhabi is special; this will be our third Grand Prix there.
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You can’t always say what you’d like to say.
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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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When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes people criticize you.
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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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Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I don’t care what other people think as long as I am happy.
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Generally I don’t care about what people say. I have to be clear with myself.
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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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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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Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.
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