Vettel wants to end the failed Ferrari era with dignity

In the end it was 14th place, Vettel scored 6 points according to the calculations at the time. According to today's points award there would have been 16 - from 8 races. The 2020 balance: 17 points from 11 races, 13th place in the classification.

A four-time world champion and 53-time Grand Prix winner who has only won one race in well over 2 years since his success at Spa-Francorchamps at the end of August 2018 (Singapore 2019): 2020 is the low point - and not just during his unsuccessful ones Ferrari era, but in Vettel's entire Formula 1 career. “It is clear that it will be a slightly different love story when you go into a season knowing that you are separating,” commented Vettel in Portimão. Ferrari had decided to end the relationship and informed Vettel about it in their 6th year together. The dry spell continues What followed is not over yet. A painful series of failures and sporting setbacks. Teammate Charles Leclerc, 23 years old and the declared future of the Scuderia from the start of his commitment, is 5 places better and scored 46 points more than Vettel before the premiere of the premier motorsport class in Portimão this Sunday (14.10 p.m. CET).

Three-time world champion Jackie Stewart recently advised Vettel to stop. The Scot, who in non-Corona times walks around the paddock in his checked pattern outfit at the age of 81, spoke of Vettel's “wonderful career”. “But personally I would like to see him step back and do what I do.”

At the age of 33, Vettel continues in the cockpit; he will compete for the future Aston Martin team from 2021. Before a new chapter begins, he wants to try to overcome the hurdles in the old one and end it “with dignity”. Vettel continues to speak of a privilege driving for Ferrari. Because his great idol and his friend and advisor Michael Schumacher once drove for Scuderia and it is the team that has always been represented in Formula 1, Ferrari always had a special place in his head and in his heart.

Vettel doesn't sound wistful: pragmatic neutrality after the pain of separation. He has the big emotions with Ferrari behind him, he enjoys the third race in Italy in a year with the Formula 3 return to Imola a week after the Grand Prix in Portugal because it was there during his Formula 1 There hasn't been a race yet in my career. Afterwards we drive in Turkey, twice in Bahrain and in Abu Dhabi. And after that, Vettel's Ferrari time is over: "I don't think I'm the guy from whom everything bubbles out at the end and everything becomes super emotional."

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Vettel wants to end the failed Ferrari era with dignity

Actually, Sebastian Vettel was only worse off in 2007. It was the year in which the German with the rascal's smile only joined in the middle of the season, made his Formula 1 debut as a reserve driver for BMW-Sauber in Canada and then started for Toro Rosso.

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