The desire to achieve perfect results in everything is one of the most important professional qualities a racer needs. It is completely inherent in Sebastian Vettel and according to the admission of the German Aston Martin racer, this is not always good in family life. The day is approaching when he will say goodbye to Formula 1 and not yet know what awaits him.
“It is absolutely certain that I will not miss all these endless flights, business meetings and communication with the press,” Vettel shared in an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel. – But what if I miss the drive, adrenaline, challenge – basically racing? Why is sport so important in my life?
The special thing about our work is that you don’t have time to think, to see where you are going, where you have to go. If I fly into the corner at more than 300 km/h and hit the brakes a fraction of a second later, I already miss the apex.
Capturing this moment, somehow measuring it for yourself, is simply impossible. We’re talking five hundredths of a second – it’s hard for a person to feel it somehow. And yet you step on the brake pedal exactly when you have to – that has a special charm.
We must always look one step ahead. Imagine you have a perfectly drawn circle in front of you, and you have to circle it accurately with your hand without deviating a millimeter, because the maximum grip is on this thin line.
During qualifying, you always strive to drive a circle as close to the ideal as possible, for this you need to blindly rely on the car and literally merge with it. That’s why you experience an incredible satisfaction when you manage to drive such a circle.
But also outside the cockpit I notice that I constantly want to achieve the ideal in everything. Everything should be as accurate and precise as possible. For example, I can’t stand it when a painting hangs crookedly on the wall. It annoys me, distracts me and I want to fix everything right away.
My wife sometimes has a hard time with me, but probably this is a typical story that many women can tell about their husbands.
Source: F1 News
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