“You should be happy to say the truth. ... It’s always correct to stand up for the right things. ... Human rights, or equal treatment for everybody, equality, I can’t see anybody convincing me that I’m missing the point.”
Q. Why do you believe that Mark did not deserve to win?
SV: I don't like to talk about other people. It is not my style. I have said enough. The bottom line is I was racing, I was faster, I passed him, I won.
Q. Is it not the case that you passed him because you knew that Alonso was out of the race?
SV: Honestly I didn't care where Fernando was.
Q. But he is likely to be your main competitor. Maybe you don't consider Mark as your ultimate competitor and you couldn't go away from that race leaving seven points on the table?
SV: Well, to be honest with you I didn't think maximum points, maximum points. I thought winning the race, winning the race. It is race two of the championship. I know there are so many races.
We have won the championship three times in a row. I know how many things will happen....in that moment, race two of the championship, I don't think about numbers. I don't think about points. I think about winning the race.Ultimately you can say it is stupid, but from my point of view if I think about the championship and the points situation too much then I am not in the moment. I am not racing.
Seb Vettel mentions 3 teams that have changed their name since 2019, gets 1 wrong (was Sauber, is now Alfa Romeo), 1 right (was Renault, is now Alpine) and wavers on 1 (was Toro Rosso, is now AlphaTauri)
→ It’s probably still very difficult to grasp the size of the decision because this is the life I know, this is the life I knew since I was a child; it gives you a lot of security just to know when the season starts, when the season ends, where the next race is.
Sebastian Vettel is interviewed by Lawrence Barretto about his decision to retire for F1TV, Thursday of the 2022 Hungarian Grand Prix.