Monaco GP: Pre-Race Interview With Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel

Monaco GP: Pre-Race Interview With Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel

Monaco GP: Pre-Race Interview With Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel

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Question: I would like to have your personal opinion, what is the most difficult, most fearsome, most challenging corner on this circuit for you personally?

Sebastian Vettel: I think, there are some blind corners and you need to anticipate, so I think that is the most challenging around here, so places like the Casino, swimming pool, the fast bits obviously, you need to have a little bit of balls but overall it’s a very difficult circuit and you’re not just losing or gaining time in the fast bits, also in the corners that you see very well, like the harbour chicane but these are the key corners if you’re looking for lap time.

Question: How important do you think it is that you stop Jenson’s (Button) winning streak this weekend? If he maybe wins five races are your own championship hopes and those of Red Bull effectively over?

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Sebastian Vettel: Well, first of all I think it’s a good position for the rest of the field that we basically have the points system still but nothing is impossible, we have just done five races, there are a lot more races to come. Of course it is important to stop Brawn GP winning, not just for us, I think for everyone, so we would like to turn the whole thing around and basically start winning at the earliest possible opportunity. Of course the target is to beat them and the target is to win the race, so to do so we need to beat everyone.

Question: You have some kind of a relationship with the FIA and your team as well. The president of the FIA wants a regulation that as far as we understand, nobody wants in Formula One. What do you think about that?

Sebastian Vettel: Well, I think first of all we are all here for the same reason, we are here in this room now because we love driving cars. Motor sport and Formula One is our life, we want to compete with each other. I think it’s always difficult to make new rules or think about the rules, try to improve and so on. You might have an opinion for one thing, not have an opinion for another one. You might like one way to go and dislike another. I think you will find an advantage, disadvantage. In the end it’s always linked to a lot of discussion, so it’s never easy. We need to see why we are here. Personally, I think we want to race and Formula One is obviously the best platform in the world to do so. We’re here for the fans and we all want the sport to continue. As I said, it’s always tricky and there are always a lot of discussions, so I think it’s very difficult to know where to go.

Question: Have you done some special things to improve your starting situation? It was not the best in the past, especially in Barcelona, or was it more a technical problem?

Sebastian Vettel: No, you’re right, we didn’t have a very good start there. Obviously, as at every race, you look into it and you try to improve. Very clearly we could see that our start wasn’t the best out of the top group, so basically both cars, Mark (Webber) and me, were lacking a little bit of performance there but I’m confident that we will fix it and we will have a reasonable and good start here in dry conditions. In wet conditions, it’s always obviously a bit different, always trickier but I think we should be OK.

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