Sebastian Vettel (German pronunciation: [ze?basti?an ?f?tl?]; born 3 July 1987) is a German racing driver currently driving in Formula One for Scuderia Ferrari. He is a four-time Formula One World Champion, having won the championship in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 with Red Bull Racing. He is regarded by fellow and former drivers as one of the greatest Formula One drivers in the history of the sport. Leaving Red Bull for the 2015 season, Vettel initially signed a three-year contract with Ferrari, which was later extended until the end of 2020.
Vettel started his career in Formula One as a test driver for BMW Sauber and made his debut with the team at the 2007 United States Grand Prix, replacing the injured Robert Kubica. Later in the season, he signed with Toro Rosso and stayed with the team into 2008. He became the (then) youngest pole-sitter and race winner at the 2008 Italian Grand Prix, In his first year driving for Red Bull in 2009, Vettel finished the season as the youngest-ever World Drivers' Championship runner-up. The following year he went on to become the youngest driver ever to win the World Drivers' Championship, aged 23. In the same year he helped Red Bull win the team's first World Constructors' Championship. He followed up his first championship with three more titles, all in succession, becoming the youngest double, triple and quadruple world champion in Formula One. The 2010 and 2012 titles were decided in the final round, in 2010 coming out on top over Ferrari's Fernando Alonso in a four-way title battle at Abu Dhabi, whilst in 2012 defeating the same driver again by three points. The 2011 and 2013 titles saw Vettel dominating the seasons to secure the titles early.
Ending his long-term association with the team, Vettel activated a clause to end his contract with Red Bull early after the 2014 season. Soon after, it was announced that Vettel had signed a three-year contract with Ferrari for the 2015 season. After his winless 2014 season, he returned to winning ways in his first Ferrari season, being the closest challenger to the dominant Mercedes cars and winning three races. 2016 also became a winless season, finishing in fourth place in the championship. Vettel and Ferrari enjoyed a resurgence in 2017, topping the standings for more than half the season following four wins. After dropping to second in the standings, a string of poor reliability and results in the second half of the campaign left him trailing Lewis Hamilton significantly and Vettel eventually saw his title hopes end in Mexico. In addition to the numerous 'youngest' records held, Vettel is currently in fourth place among all time race winners. Vettel is also currently in fourth place among all time polesitters, achieving his 50th at the 2017 Mexican Grand Prix.
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Sauber developed from a back-of-the-grid rival of Williams in the early races to being a regular top-10 qualifier and point-scorer by the end of the season.<br>Leclerc's own qualifying improvements meant he, and not his more experienced teammate Marcus Ericsson, led that charge.<br>Examining Leclerc's qualifying performance in greater detail showcases impressive raw numbers on the surface, but ...
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Vettel's 2018 title challenge gradually unravelled after he slid off track and into the wall while leading the German Grand Prix.<br>In an interview in an upcoming episode of The Autosport Podcast, Burti – who commentates on F1 for Brazilian broadcaster TV Globo – suggested former Ferrari team principal Jean Todt would have helped Vettel avoid compounding the error with further mistakes in the ...
This looked set to be THE year. At least for the first 10 races of the season. Then it all started to go horribly wrong for Ferrari and Sebastian Vettel, who went from favourites for the title to being left wondering what had hit them in the space of weeks.<br>It all had started perfectly: a strong pre-season, during which Ferrari looked to have finally caught up with Mercedes in terms of engine ...
Vettel finished runner-up to Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton in the world championship after several high-profile mistakes and Ferrari's own struggles led to him being defeated for a second year in a row.<br>Lauda, speaking to La Gazzetta dello Sport in his first interview since the lung transplant that saved his life, backed Vettel to emerge as a major threat to Hamilton in 2019 and revealed he received ...
Vettel’s four seasons at Ferrari have been spent alongside Kimi Raikkonen, with whom the four-time world champion developed a strong relationship off-track. The arrival of Leclerc next season, after just one year in F1 at Sauber, will present a different dynamic and the 21-year-old has been tipped to challenge Vettel immediately after four years of the German enjoying a relatively comfortable ...
Although the German enjoyed strong form at various stages of last season, his championship hopes stumbled when rival Mercedes upped its game after the summer break. Vettel thinks that if Ferrari is going to make the next step and come out on top in 2019 it needs to ensure that it addresses its weak points first. Asked at the FIA Gala in Russia about what he needed from his Ferrari next year ...
Vettel led the championship after 10 races this year but fell behind Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton and only won once in the nine grands prix after the summer break. The German, who has not won the title since the last of his four Red Bull successes in 2013, suffered a number of high-profile errors including crashing from the lead in Germany and spinning because of contact early in the Italian ...
Verstappen bounced back from an error-strewn first six races of the season, which included clashes with both Hamilton and Vettel, to secure a career-best fourth in the championship. The 21-year-old outscored everyone except 2018 champion Hamilton across the nine races after the summer break, to end the year with two wins and 11 podiums in total. Hamilton and Vettel both vouched for ...
Vettel had broken his rear wing in his Turn 1 crash that brought out the red flag in the morning, while the floor of his car sustained damage on the kerbs on two separate occasions. He would end up topping the session by four tenths over rival Valtteri Bottas, but had recorded, at 67 laps, just over half the mileage of the Mercedes driver. “Unfortunately we had some small issues and took a ...
Vettel, who caused a red flag in the morning going off at Turn 1, overhauled morning pacesetter Valtteri Bottas early in the afternoon to end Tuesday’s nine hours of running with a best time of 1m36.812s. Bottas’s early benchmark of 1m37.231s was enough to remain second-fastest as neither he nor Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, who ended up 1.1s slower than Vettel, set a quicker time in the ...
Ferrari driver Vettel lost to Lewis Hamilton in the 2018 title fight, with several high-profile errors blunting his challenge despite winning five races for Ferrari and scoring five pole positions. After last Sunday's season finale in Abu Dhabi, Vettel said he was looking forward to clearing his final official engagements of the year. "We've got some events coming but things that I look ...
The Mercedes and Ferrari drivers have battled for the last two world titles, with Hamilton coming out on top both times. Following the Abu Dhabi F1 season finale on Sunday Hamilton and Vettel met up to exchange helmets, which Hamilton compared to when players swap shirts in other sports. "This is kind of an honorary thing that drivers do, this is the highest regard of respect that we can ...
Although Ferrari emerged as a major threat to Mercedes in the fight for the Formula 1 championship, late season errors derailed its campaign. While a number of driving mistakes highlighted the pressure that Vettel was under, Clear thinks that the German will use the experience to make himself better in 2019. "The fact is drivers of his calibre relish the pressure," said Clear. "That's again ...
Vettel started on the front row of the grid at Interlagos but was passed by Valtteri Bottas into the first corner, by Max Verstappen a few laps later and then fell to fifth when he ran wide after locking up at Turn 4. He eventually finished a distant sixth after being overtaken by Daniel Ricciardo and making a second pitstop. Ferrari team principal Maurizio Arrivabene said after the race ...
Vettel was stopped by the FIA for a weight check early in Q2 after competing only an out-lap after Ferrari decided to switch from supersoft to soft tyres. With rain threatening, Vettel showed his obvious frustration by knocking over a marker come, initially not switching off his engine, and driving off the scales under his own power, which broke them. After a hearing, he was given a ...
Vettel, called up to the weighbridge when he came into the pits without setting a laptime early on in the second segment of qualifying, was anxious to get through the process as he hit a cone and hurried FIA staff through the motions. He subsequently incurred the wrath of technical delegate Jo Bauer, who reported the four-time world champion had ignored instructions, didn't switch off the ...
Hamilton went fastest using supersoft Pirellis on the first runs in the Q3 top 10 shootout, setting a time of 1m07.301s. The Mercedes driver was the only one of the frontrunners to improve on his second run, shaving off a further two-hundredths of a second to make sure of pole position. Vettel had been up on Hamilton after the first sector on his final run, but a lock up in Turn 8 ...
Vettel was rushing back to the pits before setting a laptime during the second qualifying segment in changeable conditions at Interlagos, as Ferrari sent him out on supersoft tyres but wanted him to come in to switch to softs. Upon entering the pitlane Vettel was called into the weighbridge but the scales were coned off. Vettel hit the cone immediately blocking the entry and gesticulated ...
The Ferrari pairing made the early running on the Pirelli supersofts - Vettel fastest of all with a 1m08.857s - but there was little appetite among Ferrari's rivals to emerge from their garages straight away. A quarter of the session elapsed before the Mercedes of Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas hit the track, and Hamilton was instructed to abort his practice start and return to the pits straight ...
In a radio message broadcast on F1's coverage of FP2 at Interlagos, Vettel reported to his team during the session that "there's something loose between my legs. Apart from the obvious". He added: "Something [is] bouncing around between my feet. I'd be proud if it's what you thought it was but…" The four-time world champion explained afterwards that he immediately realised the innuendo of ...
Verstappen, Sebastian Vettel and 2018 champion Lewis Hamilton were covered by less than a tenth of a second in first practice at Interlagos. Hamilton and Verstappen set their fastest laps moments apart from one another, with the Briton initially going quickest on a 1m09.107s before Verstappen snuck ahead on a 1m09.011s. Vettel then split the pair by posting a 1m09.060s. The close fight ...
With Ferrari having elected not to retain Kimi Raikkonen in 2019, Vettel will have a new teammate for the first time since he joined the Scuderia at the start of 2015. But while Leclerc’s natural speed is obvious, he does lack F1 experience with only this season with Sauber under his belt – and that is why Vettel thinks it would be a mistake if the pair locked horns in a fight for internal ...
The German's hopes of landing this year's world championship came to an end in Mexico last weekend when Lewis Hamilton's fourth placed finish was enough for him to secure the title. Although Ferrari did enjoy spells over the campaign where it was quicker than Mercedes, Vettel is adamant that suggestions Ferrari did not ram home a big competitive advantage are wide of the work. Read ...
Vettel was finally eliminated from championship contention in Mexico last weekend, having been defeated by Hamilton in a close fight for the second season in a row. The Ferrari driver has made several mistakes this season, including crashing out of the lead in Germany and spinning in battle on multiple occasions in the second half of the year. Asked if this has been his most difficult year ...
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