“Shall be forgotten”
Wouldn’t Vettel have stopped with a more powerful car?
10/12/2022, 4:29 p.m
Sebastian Vettel’s Formula 1 career will be over in just over a month. Now he talks regarding the time following – and believes for special reasons that “no one will remember me”. The 35-year-old is also struggling with his end, because everything would have turned out differently with a better car.
Sebastian Vettel expects to be forgotten as a Formula 1 driver. “I once heard someone say, ‘You will only be remembered until the last person who remembers you dies.’ Let me put it this way: The UK has a new king, but he’s not the first King Charles – there were two others before him. Do you remember them? Probably not. There is a limit,” Vettel said in a published article Interview of his team Aston Martin.
“There will probably come a point when nobody will remember me. Nothing lasts forever,” said the 35-year-old. Vettel will end his Formula 1 career at the end of this season following four world championship titles and currently 53 Grand Prix victories.
“I thought regarding it”
Would Vettel have continued his career with a more powerful car? “I don’t know. Would I resign if I had been very competitive in the past three or four years: won races, fought for championships – maybe won another one?” said the Heppenheimer. “Maybe I would have come to the same decision, maybe not. It’s impossible to say, but I’ve thought regarding it.”
Vettel won all world titles with Red Bull from 2010 to 2013. In 2015 he switched to Ferrari to emulate his idol Michael Schumacher and start a new era at Scuderia. Vettel failed, in 2021 he switched to Aston Martin.
“Finishing 10th doesn’t make me happy because I know what it’s like to be first. When you’ve never been first, the first time you finish tenth you get pretty excited. But I’m glad that I don’t get a kick when I finish 10th,” said Vettel. He contests his last Formula 1 race on November 20 in Abu Dhabi.
