Questions To Sebastien Buemi Answered

Over on the official Scuderia Toro Rosso website, they recently published the answers to some questions from their readers for Sebastien Buemi. It makes for very interesting reading. Here are some highlights, but get over to the STR site for the full story.

When asked about rituals and lucky charms, Buemi's answer was as follows:

I always get in and out of the car on the left-hand side I have a lucky charm that I wear around my neck, I used to the same as David Coulthard and have a pair of lucky underpants after I won in them one time. But for sure I stopped wearing them when I realized they made no difference!

Glad he ditched the underwear ritual. Not that I really needed to know about it!

There are several other questions which give some nice insight into Sebastien Buemi, including questions about living in Bahrain and following in the footsteps of Swiss F1 drivers. However, there is one question that really stands out because it is about the serious business of racing a car in Formula One:

What’s the hardest thing this weekend: getting to grips with a circuit you’ve never driven at or dealing with how an F1 works?

That's the question. The answer from Sebastien was as follows:

I found that in qualifying especially, everything happened very quickly, in terms of having to go out and do a good time, come back to the pits, think about how we can improve the car, explain what it is doing to my race engineer, fit new tyres and then go out and do it again. Getting to learn a new circuit is relatively easy and is less of a problem.

Wow, sounds like hard work. As I've said in a previous post, I'm sure it's relative. Someone like Fernando Alonso would be able to do all that and have plenty of time left over. Buemi will get to that point in his career too, but for now, it's all so new that it's probably a bit of a blur.

Anyway, I like this article about Sebastien Buemi and thought it would be worth sharing. Hope you liked it.