An emotional Vettel admits he was 'coming alive' during his final F1 qualifying session ahead of the AbuDhabiGP.
Sebastian Vettel says he was"coming alive" as he took ninth on the grid in his final Formula 1 qualifying session in Abu Dhabi.Leaving behind the inevitable distractions of his last race weekend before entering retirement, Vettel was sixth fastest in Q1 and showed great commitment as he weaved his way through slow-moving cars at the end of the lap.
He was then eighth in Q2, having he felt he'd lost a little time after following a Red Bull across the line in both sessions.qualified only 14th."I'm happy with how the session went. It was a bit emotional before getting in the car, but once I was in the car it was all thoughts in into qualifying the laps.
"It was coming alive, I was coming alive. So it felt good. Always in the laps before the Q3, it was always a Red Bull in the last corner. If you staged it, you probably wouldn't be able to.Elaborating on an emotional weekend, Vettel admitted that his thoughts before qualifying had been on"the people that can't be here because they're not with us anymore, or they didn't make it".
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