You can’t change what happened. But you can still change what will happen.
SEBASTIAN VETTELIt was an unbelievable experience! The brakes, the g-forces and the power of the engine are beyond description.
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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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I found myself sitting in the RB7 and smiling.
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Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.
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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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The track in Abu Dhabi is special; this will be our third Grand Prix there.
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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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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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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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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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Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.
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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 prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it.
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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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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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You can’t always say what you’d like to say.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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I don’t care what other people think as long as I am happy.
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When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes people criticize you.
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