Aston Martin F1 driver Sebastian Vettel has revealed that he is hoping that Max Verstappen wins this season’s Drivers’ Championship to stop Sir Lewis Hamilton from securing an eighth title and breaking Michael Schumacher’s record. Hamilton and Schumacher are currently both level on seven World Championships each, and with the Brit being just a handful
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Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll has said that he believes his son, Lance, is roughly matching his new Aston Martin team-mate Sebastian Vettel. The four-time World Champion joined the Aston Martin F1 Team in 2021 after being axed by Ferrari last year, and he scored the newly rebranded racing outfit’s maiden podium in Baku earlier this
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Aston Martin F1 driver Sebastian Vettel has defended himself for calling for more action against climate change after some critics accused him of hypocrisy. The four-time World Champion recently revealed that he plans to vote green in elections, prompting criticism from some who suggested it is hypocritical for him to campaign against climate change as
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Four-time F1 World Champion Sebastian Vettel has said he will be “less nice” following him being slapped with a grid penalty for impeding Fernando Alonso during qualifying for last weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix. The German was handed a three-place grid drop for blocking Alonso while he was on a flying lap in the dying seconds
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Four-time World Champion Sebastian Vettel “has not lost his talent” and remains one of Formula 1’s top drivers, according to ex-F1 racer Marc Surer. Vettel had a difficult start to life as an Aston Martin driver, but his form has improved in recent races and he scored the newly rebranded team’s first-ever podium at Baku
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Mark Webber, a former team-mate of Sebastian Vettel at Red Bull, has said he believes the four-time World Champion is still “tired” from the six years he spent at Ferrari. Vettel joined Aston Martin for the 2021 F1 season, and many in the paddock had tipped him to benefit from the change of environment, especially
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FIA race director Michael Masi has responded to Sebastian Vettel’s complaint about the penalty he received at last weekend’s 2021 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. The four-time World Champion was awarded a 10-second stop-and-go penalty as the tyres weren’t fitted to his Aston Martin five minutes prior to the race start after his car was moved
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Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto has said the fact that they are “unhappy” to have missed out on a podium at Imola highlights the progress they have made over the winter. Leclerc was in an excellent position to score a podium at the 2021 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix prior to the race being red-flagged, and
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Former F1 racer Gerhard Berger has said it is too soon to make judgments about Sebastian Vettel’s performance at Aston Martin, with the German only having competed in two races with his new team. Vettel joined the Silverstone-based team after a woeful final season with Ferrari in 2020 – and many in the paddock had
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Four-time World Champion Sebastian Vettel is a “finished man” but it is unlikely that the Aston Martin F1 Team will fire him, former F3000 driver Jason Watt has said. Vettel has struggled in the opening two rounds of the 2021 Championship with Aston Martin, and Watt said it is clear that he is still under
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