"There are a few things that make me angry. Mostly things not going my way"
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Anger, in Sebastian Vettel's telling, isn't some noble, righteous flame. It's petty. It's personal. It's about control. "There are a few things that make me angry" starts like a responsible public figure about to list injustices or principles. Then he swerves: "Mostly things not going my way". The joke lands because it punctures the usual athlete-celebrity script, where emotions are framed as motivation, adversity, or passion for the craft. Vettel admits the less flattering truth: elite performance often runs on an ego that hates losing more than it loves winning.
The intent feels disarming, even strategic. In a sport like Formula 1, where drivers are packaged as brands and complaints get sanitized into "we'll analyze and come back stronger", this line humanizes him. It's also a subtle flex. If "things not going my way" reliably make you angry, that implies you're used to them going your way. The subtext is entitlement, but in the specific, earned sense: the entitlement of someone trained to believe that preparation should bend reality in his favor.
Context matters, too. Vettel came up during an era when he was both celebrated and resented for dominance, then later had to live through the sport's brutal recalibration as cars, teams, and timing stopped aligning. The line reads differently depending on when you hear it: during his Red Bull peak, it's cheeky arrogance; during his later struggles, it's a bleak little confession. Either way, it works because it's honest about the emotional economics of competition: control is the drug, and unpredictability is withdrawal.
The intent feels disarming, even strategic. In a sport like Formula 1, where drivers are packaged as brands and complaints get sanitized into "we'll analyze and come back stronger", this line humanizes him. It's also a subtle flex. If "things not going my way" reliably make you angry, that implies you're used to them going your way. The subtext is entitlement, but in the specific, earned sense: the entitlement of someone trained to believe that preparation should bend reality in his favor.
Context matters, too. Vettel came up during an era when he was both celebrated and resented for dominance, then later had to live through the sport's brutal recalibration as cars, teams, and timing stopped aligning. The line reads differently depending on when you hear it: during his Red Bull peak, it's cheeky arrogance; during his later struggles, it's a bleak little confession. Either way, it works because it's honest about the emotional economics of competition: control is the drug, and unpredictability is withdrawal.
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