Quotes About F1

In an F1 team at the end you have your little family and I feel that Red Bull is definitely mine and my place to be at the moment.

F1 is about the best drivers competing against each other for the best teams producing the best cars they can.

The only time I think about life beyond F1 is when I contemplate becoming a dad. But there's no way that's going to happen while I'm still racing. To be successful in F1 you need to be very selfish in lots of ways and you're away from home for long periods. That's not the kind of father I want to be.

To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it. When you're driving a 750hp machine at 200mph, the noise and the vibrations are incredible. The G-force when you take big corners is like someone trying to rip your head off. You hit the brakes, and it feels as if the skin is being pulled off your body.

To drive an F1 car you have to be a little mad. On the morning of a race there's a mix of excitement and fear. If it's a wet track, then it's worse as you're not in control most of the time, which is the thing all drivers fear the most.

I don't purposely speed, but I might go over by five or six miles an hour from time to time. It doesn't give me a buzz driving on normal roads, because I can't go fast enough. It's never going to be anything like an F1 car.

When I do retire, I know for a fact that I'll never be able to replace the incredible feeling I get when I'm driving an F1 car.

I am one of the best to have raced in F1. I am probably not fastest in qualifying, or the wet, but I am 9.5 in all areas. I try to benefit from that.

People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.

The biggest difference in the wet between F2 and F1 is that there's so much more power in F1 as being on the throttle earlier has a bigger advantage.

F1 teams need a driver who will consistently set lap times that are 100 percent on the edge.

In F1, we see teams spending ridiculous amounts of money. That's the sport.

Pressure is always a part of a racing driver's life, but my father helped me a lot on my way to becoming a F1 driver.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn't quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

The heart of Ferrari is winning in F1. I don't want to see our drivers in 7th and 12th place.

As F1 is a male-dominated environment, you have to prove yourself. And first of all that means being given the chance to prove yourself.

F1 has to keep appealing to sports fans and not only to motor racing fans but to possibly a wider public... I don't know if it's only social media or different electronic devices that will do that. How to establish more of a personal link to the drivers and to the teams - these are things that you have to think of.

You tend to think that there is a big gap between F1 and everything else. F1 is where all the fantastic drivers are, so you just don't know how good you are until you get there.

It's true that driving an F1 car in testing is helpful, it's not that you learn everything.

In my time in F1, I never doubted I could be successful. I sadly never made it on to the starting grid of an F1 race, but during testing I completed a race distance.

Life is strange, but F1 is simply crazy.

I don't think really we need to race in F1 just to risk your life, or to be in danger is nice for the people. I don't think it's really like that.

I'd like to thank the management at Force India for giving me the chance to return to Formula One as a team driver.

The debut season in F1 is obviously very tough but it's been OK. The aim for me is to stay in Formula One for many years and that's what we're working at doing at the moment.