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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More Sebastian Vettel Quotes
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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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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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You can’t change what happened. But you can still change what will happen.
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The track in Abu Dhabi is special; this will be our third Grand Prix there.
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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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After 10 weeks away from Formula One, when they started the engine here at Valencia and everything was vibrating,
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes people criticize you.
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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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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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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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There are a few things that make me angry. Mostly things not going my way.
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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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I don’t care what other people think as long as I am happy.
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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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We always kept believing in ourselves and our team and the car.
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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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