Sebastian Vettel Quotes

When you're doing Sebring in the back straight at 185 or 187, and the car's moving, you gotta know what to do with it, how to read it. Just the science of understanding shocks - forget spring rates - is mind-boggling.

I've been driving race cars professionally for a while: 200 mph types of things.

I love driving fast. I grew up in Germany; we have the Autobahn here, where we can drive without a speed limit. And throughout my 20s, I always had fast cars, and I always went to the maximum. Like, my average cruising speed was 250 km/hr.

Look, if you're driving down the highway at 120 miles an hour, I'd rather be behind the wheel than in the backseat.

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.

We have seen a tendency for cars running the f-duct to use higher downforce levels than normal, because they can stall the rear wing and still generate good top speed.

I think what I've found is that in IndyCar, the balance is a bit more all over the place compared with Formula 1! You have to get used to that and work around it. Again, as a driver, you can help the situation by the way you brake and apply the throttle to make the balance better.

I like high speed corners, but with the F111, it is taking a little time to build up to that.

There is no medicine maybe for everything, but there is a big medicine which is downforce in an F1 car.

The lighter the car, the faster it goes.

At the end of the day, driving on the limit, sometimes over it to achieve the best out of it, especially at such high speeds... mistakes are easily done.

The car drives really really good so far. No changes on the next pit stop. It's great, I can hold it down right along the bottom here in the corners I'm just ridin' around out here just waiting until later to make a move

I like to run fast but not drive.

The day after I had my licence to drive, I made Paris/Nice at 230 km/hour.

When you're driving on a normal track, you can see the braking point from 500 m. away.

I think that just sitting down and having casual conversation is the hardest stuff to do. But the extremes? I know what it feels like to come racing around the corner at 90 miles an hour, sliding the car sideways. I know what gear I'm hitting it in when I'm coming around the corner and where I need to downshift. So to me, that's the fun stuff.

My job is to get into the car and drive as fast and as well as possible.

Whether it's with my engineers in the team, my home life, or my friends, I don't like things to get complicated - and one good example would be the steering wheel in my Mercedes Formula 1 car.

I have the biggest weapons in my hands. I can go a full 12 rounds at high speed.

When I got to Ferrari I learnt to be less aggressive, and how to set up the car for my driving style.

Formula One cars are very difficult to drive, and we need all of our skills.

When I'm doing longer runs I can be very consistent on the lap times because I know what the car is doing all the time.

When I'm in the car, if you didn't know my story and just saw me driving, you wouldn't know the difference between me and any of the other drivers. I'm just out there competing.

Ever since I was younger, I was fascinated by cars and driving. The first time I actually drove a car, I was twelve years old.