A biography for Sebastian Vettelhasn’t been written yet.
“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 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.”
“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.”
“Teams like Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes are going to be very, very motivated to go for the titles.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.”
“You're traveling all over the world but to be home is something special.”
“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.”
“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.”
“You can't always say what you'd like to say.”
“If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn't lose focus. That made the difference.”
“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.”
“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.”