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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More Sebastian Vettel Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Generally I don’t care about what people say. I have to be clear with myself.
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After 10 weeks away from Formula One, when they started the engine here at Valencia and everything was vibrating,
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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’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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You can’t change what happened. But you can still change what will happen.
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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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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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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 have always watched the Race of Champions on TV every year and dreamed about participating one day.
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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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Teams like Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes are going to be very, very motivated to go for the titles.
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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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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 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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When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes people criticize you.
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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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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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It’s fantastic to be invited; I’m so happy. To represent Team Germany together with Michael Schumacher is a great honor.
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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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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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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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