Four-time world champion quit
Sebastian Vettel ends his Formula 1 career
The great Formula 1 quits. Four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel will retire at the end of the season. The 35-year-old made the announcement on Thursday.
Four world championship titles, 53 race wins and 57 pole positions – but it’s over now! Sebastian Vettel ends his career in Formula 1. The 35-year-old German announced it on Thursday (a day before the start of training for the upcoming Hungarian Grand Prix) via his Instagram channel.
Vettel is still under contract with current racing team Aston Martin until the end of the season. A racing driver will also achieve this. But then he finally withdrew from the racetrack.
Vettel in the Instagram video: “I love this sport. It’s been in the center of my life for as long as I can remember. But there’s my life on the track – and my life off the track. Being a racer has never been my only identity. My definition of identity is who we are and how we relate to others.” Not what we do.”
‘My goals have changed’
There has been a lot of speculation lately about the resignation of the former BMW-Sauber driver. “A green man is looking for answers”, was the headline in Sunday’s newspaper, referring to Vettel’s lack of results at Aston Martin. Now it seems that the Swiss by choice has at least found an answer for himself.
“My goals have changed,” Vettel explains his retirement from Formula 1. The priority is no longer the many race victories, but his children. “I want to see my children grow up and don’t have to say goodbye. Dedicate myself to Formula 1 as I have done in the past, as I see fit, and being a good father and husband no longer come together for me.”
Vettel stations in Formula 1
2007: Formula 1 debut at BMW-Sauber
2007: Toro Rosso (first place and first win at Monza)
2009-2014: Red Bull (38 wins, four consecutive world titles since 2010)
2015-2020: Ferrari (14 wins)
Since 2021: Aston Martin (1x platform)
Young Sebastian Vettel 2007 in BMW-Sauber.
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2007: Formula 1 debut at BMW-Sauber
2007: Toro Rosso (first place and first win at Monza)
2009-2014: Red Bull (38 wins, four consecutive world titles since 2010)
2015-2020: Ferrari (14 wins)
Since 2021: Aston Martin (1x platform)
The unforgettable feeling of Monza for Vettel
At the US Grand Prix in Indianapolis in 2007, Vettel started as a replacement for Paul Robert Kubica, who had had a serious crash the previous week at the Canadian Grand Prix – and with an eighth place finish, he immediately won his first BMW-Sauber World Championship point.
He then followed the Germans’ final breakthrough in 2008 in the race at Monza. In qualifying for the rain, Vettel, now a driver at Toro Rosso, surprisingly took first. And in the race, too, he did not give the competition a chance and took a thrilling victory for the first time in Formula 1.
Now he says: “Being a Formula 1 driver brings with him things I no longer like. Maybe these will be resolved at some point. But the will to implement this change has to become much stronger and lead to action today. Talk is not enough. We can’t wait.”
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