Sebastian Vettel (must-read) interview with Autoweek about his personal life and the F1 motivation to win. Here are some of Sebastian Vettel’s comments from the Autoweek interview:
“I’m pretty happy. I’m happy with my life. I think there’s a lot of people better-looking than me, but that’s OK. I’m happy with what I’ve got. If you can choose, you always think a bit of this and a bit of that. Yes, that is my life. Obviously, racing is also my life, but if somebody asked me who are you, then the answer I think I would like to hear from myself is, I’m husband to Hanna and father to my kids and so on. This is who I am. It’s not what I do that defines me. For a lot of people that follow from outside, yes, of course it is. It’s the same thing for me when I watch the tennis game and when I look at the guys, that’s who they are for me.”
“I am not always patient in the race, but you care so much, you have passion and emotions that drive you. When we fight each other on the track, you give each other room or no room or whatever you do. I always see it that way, that obviously when you fight on-track, you fight for yourself. That’s just being competitive. But that doesn’t mean that you need to be an ass when you get out of the car. If somebody has done better than you, it’s hard, but I appreciate it a lot if somebody comes to me that has just been defeated & then shakes my hand, looks me in the eyes & says ‘well done.’ I also try to do that, even if I would like to run away & hide.”
“Sport, I think, is just a mirror of life, with the access for everyone to look at it, so you are on display. It’s not like normal people don’t have ups and downs; they have them, of course, but maybe they don’t have as many highs and lows. When people talk about highs or lows, I don’t think I go as high or as low. So basically, ensuring that if the hole is there and I need to get out of it, it’s not as deep as it could be. Everybody’s different!”
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