Sebastian Vettel Quotations

I don't care too much what happened in the past. I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it.

It was an unbelievable experience! The brakes, the g-forces and the power of the engine are beyond description. Thanks to BMW and WilliamsF1 for giving me this chance to test. The test team looked after me brilliantly and I learnt plenty.

Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

I don't care what other people think as long as I am happy. 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.

Generally I don't care about what people say. I have to be clear with myself. When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes people criticize you.

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.

Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.

You can't change what happened. But you can still change what will happen

Teams like Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes are going to be very, very motivated to go for the titles.

If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn't lose focus. That made the difference.

You're traveling all over the world but to be home is something special.

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.

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. So, even though people don't have a lot here, they are a lot richer in many ways and we can learn from that.

Of course, you always give 100 percent, but at a home race you're always more motivated, simply because you feel at home.

All these nice people saying I'm going to be world champion won't make me any faster, you have to believe it yourself.

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.

We always kept believing in ourselves and our team and the car.

I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.

Whenever I have to do something, I try to minimise the time it takes me to do it. I just cannot wait.

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.

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.

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.

As a driver, your target is always to be with the most competitive team possible.

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.

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.

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.

The track in Abu Dhabi is special; this will be our third Grand Prix there.

There are a few things that make me angry. Mostly things not going my way.

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.

You can't always say what you'd like to say.

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.

I have always watched the Race of Champions on TV every year and dreamed about participating one day. It's fantastic to be invited; I'm so happy. To represent Team Germany together with Michael Schumacher is a great honor.

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.

After 10 weeks away from Formula One, when they started the engine here at Valencia and everything was vibrating, I found myself sitting in the RB7 and smiling.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm German but I didn't say that. I have no moustache

Unbelievable how silly this Formula 1 is these days, with this stupid overtakes.

Maybe Ferrari's mirrors are excellent & have HD resolution

Our car looks better than everything I've seen so far.

If anyone can achieve the impossible it’s you. Please, please, get it again.

It's very shocking for me to see pictures from my win here in 2008. I aged.

The next stage of Sebastian Vettel Formula One career will be spent with Scuderia Ferrari and for Sebastian Vettel Scuderia Ferrari means the dream of a lifetime has come true, When I was a kid, Michael Schumacher in the red car was my greatest idol and now it 's an incredible honor to finally get the chance to drive a Ferrari.

I told you guys... don't stop believing.

Like a ship, a car should be named after a girl as it's sexy. My original car was called Kate. But then it got smashed at the opening race in Australia. So we called this one Kate's Dirty Sister because it is more aggressive and faster.

It's correct that I'm a bad loser. Why should I lie? If I was good at losing I wouldn't be in Formula 1. I think it's more honest to act how you really feel than pretending to be the smiling boy who actually isn't in the mood to smile.

Never lift. Never stop believing

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.

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.

The moment money becomes your motivation, you are immediately NOT AS GOOD AS someone who is stimulated by PASSION and INTERNAL WILL

There is no reason not to be motivated. You cannot always be the best. But you can do your best.