Sebastian Vettel Quotes
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There are a few things that make me angry. Mostly things not going my way.
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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. 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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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 have one quote I very often read to myself, from a very good friend: 'Forget the people around you now; remember the little boy who was racing in go-karts, what you were dreaming of and what he wanted to achieve one day and what was his goal. Race for him.'. I fell in love with the sport, I love racing. The amount of satisfaction I get just going around in a Formula 1 car makes me smile. So if it is a bad day then you tend to come out and say it's horrible and you don't enjoy. But if you had to pick between that and doing nothing, you would always pick that.
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I told you guys... don't stop believing.
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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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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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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. 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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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. 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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Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.
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If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn't lose focus. That made the difference.
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The moment money becomes your motivation, you are immediately not as good as someone who is stimulated by passion and internal will.
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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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It's just fantastic to feel the speed and the braking. It was a hard work - to hold an f1 car on the circuit is a job in itself. To drive quickly is another thing. I enjoyed it.
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If anyone can achieve the impossible it’s you. Please, please, get it again.
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As a driver, your target is always to be with the most competitive team possible.
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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 aerodynamics.
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It's very shocking for me to see pictures from my win here in 2008. I aged.
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What I admire is people who are grounded and resistant to all kinds of whisperings. Kimi Raikkonen, for example. You may like him or not, but he lives his way. He does the things he has identified as worthy for him and he is not trying to be everybody’s darling. At least he doesn’t give that impression. He is straightforward and honest and he tells you if he has a bad day. Period. He is real. He’s not political. He’s never up to something. If he doesn’t want to tell you something he will say so and not hum and haw. He doesn’t beat around the bush, never coming to the point.
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Never lift. Never stop believing.
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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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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.