“I want to be at the front of the grid, because I have been there so many times and I have learned to enjoy it.” “In the big picture the target is quite clear,” he says. Yet he could not quell the competitive instinct, nor the allure of once more tasting success. With no seats at either Red Bull or Mercedes, he admitted considering retirement. He was soundly beaten by Leclerc and finished in 13th. It was unquestionably his worst season in F1. Their car subsequently proved to be a woeful beast, down on power and hard to handle, and Vettel particularly suffered with the lack of confidence in its rear grip and stability. We have a common passion that connects usĪs Vettel struggled he was outscored by Leclerc, only the second time he has been beaten by a teammate, and before the pandemic-truncated 2020 season began Ferrari did not renew his contract beyond that year. Me and Lewis will always have that history. Worse was to follow as Ferrari took on the talented youngster Charles Leclerc in 2019. He challenged in 20 but both times neither he nor the team could match Hamilton and Mercedes. Vettel had aimed to emulate his childhood hero Michael Schumacher in switching to Ferrari in 2015 but the hoped-for resurgence of the Scuderia in combination with a multiple world champion failed to materialise. It was a dominance he and the team relished, little knowing that Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes would soon eclipse their remarkable achievements with his six titles since 2014. Vettel won four titles for Red Bull between 20. He has high expectations of himself because of his own accomplishments. “Because I still want to prove to myself that I can do what I want to do, what I used to do and in a way that I am happy with.” “Why am I doing it? Because I love it,” he says. This season, his first with Aston Martin, he is in a car that for the moment is not in contention for podium places yet he seems almost taken aback by enquiries about what keeps him going after so long in the sport.
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