After 10 weeks away from Formula One, when they started the engine here at Valencia and everything was vibrating,
SEBASTIAN VETTELI’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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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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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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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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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 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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There are a few things that make me angry. Mostly things not going my way.
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The track in Abu Dhabi is special; this will be our third Grand Prix there.
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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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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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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 don’t care too much what happened in the past.
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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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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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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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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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