Sebastian Vettel

Sebastian Vettel has announced his plan to retire from Formula 1 at the end of the 2022 season.

He will continue to race for us up to and including the 2022 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, which will be his 300th grand prix entry. He has driven some fantastic races for us, and, behind the scenes, his experience and expertise with our engineers have been extremely valuable. He left Maranello at the end of 2020 to join Aston Martin, with whom he will see out his F1 career.

Vettel is out of contract with Aston Martin at the end of this season and, after weeks of speculation about his future, has now confirmed he will be stepping ...

The energy it takes to become one with the car and the team, to chase perfection takes focus and commitment. I believe that there is still a race to win. Children are our future, further I feel there is so much to explore and learn about life and about myself. My passion comes with certain aspects that I have learned to dislike. "My passion with racing and Formula One comes with lots of time spent away from them, and takes a lot of energy. "Committing to my passion the way I did and the way I think it is right, does no longer go side by side with my wish to be a great father and husband.

Vettel, who won all of his championship titles with Red Bull between 2010 and 2013, is among the sport's most successful drivers having recorded 53 race wins ...

It is very clear to me that, being a father, I want to spend more time with my family. "But today is not about saying goodbye. "We made it clear to him that we wanted him to continue with us next year, but in the end, he has done what he feels is right for himself and his family, and of course, we respect that."

Sebastian Vettel won four consecutive F1 world titles with Red Bull between 2010 and 2013. · The 35-year-old German will see out the final season of his career ...

The 35-year-old German, who spent six seasons with Ferrari after joining the Italian team in 2015, will see out the remainder of his final campaign with Aston Martin. - The 35-year-old German will see out the final season of his career with Aston Martin. After making his debut in 2007, Vettel went on to win four consecutive world championships for Red Bull between 2010 and 2013, the first of which made him the sport's youngest title winner.

This is it. Four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel will retire from Formula 1 at the end of the season.

“Aston Martin is a great project, with unlimited potential, and the groundwork that Sebastian has done last year, and is still doing this year, is crucial. Aston Martin owner Lawrence Stroll said: “I want to thank Sebastian from the bottom of my heart for the great work that he has done for Aston Martin over the past year and a half. Team Principal Mike Krack added: “Sebastian is a superb driver – fast, intelligent and strategic – and of course we are going to miss those qualities.

The Aston Martin driver's storied career featured four world championships, 53 race wins and 122 podiums.

“The energy it takes to become one with the car and the team, to chase perfection, takes focus and commitment. Vettel discussed in his retirement announcement how he feels that “we live in very decisive times and how we shape these next years will determine our lives.” With his passion for racing, Vettel said there were “aspects that I have learned to dislike.” He continued, “I believe in change and progress and that every little bit makes a difference. When we become fully competitive—and we will—one of the architects of that future success will be Sebastian, and we will always be grateful to him for that.” He is one of the all-time greats of Formula One, and it has been a privilege to have been able to work with him. However, we have all learned from him, and the knowledge that we have gained from working with him will continue to benefit our team long after his departure,” team principal Mike Krack said in the team’s news announcement.

Aston Martin F1 driver Sebastian Vettel has announced that he will be leaving the championship at the end of the 2022 Formula 1 season.

It is something that Vettel has alluded to in his retirement announcement, “My passion comes with certain aspects that I have learned to dislike. He would depart Ferrari for his current team Aston Martin in 2021. He was championship runner-up in his first season at the team, then won four consecutive World Drivers’ Championships.

Lewis Hamilton has praised rival Sebastian Vettel for supporting his anti-racism campaigning, after the four-time world champion confirmed he will retire ...

I could see how professional he was and it gave me a good insight into how you need to behave and how you need to be, to be a successful F1 driver like he was. I wish him the best and we will miss him. To see him go is something that you can see coming. (It's) not the news that I want. "He has been one of the very, very few drivers in racing history that has stood for much more than himself. Obviously personally, I spent some time alongside him which was a privilege.

Following the announcement of his retirement, F1 rival Lewis Hamilton said Sebastian Vettel is "one of the greatest people" F1 has ever had.

It's really kind of been him standing out into the uncomfortable light and trying to do something with the platform that we have and I think that's why for me he's very much unlike any other drivers that have been here, past or present." "He's been so supportive to me and I'd like to think I've supported him also. "I think he's one of the greatest people we've seen in this sport and we need more like him. But I do hope it will be in a better place and we have not wasted our time." Over time we've started to see one another take those brave steps and standing up for things we believe in and been able to support each other. he's been so brave in speaking out and standing for what he believes in.

Vettel to retire from Formula One after current contract with Aston Martin expires at season's end.

Vettel's 53 Grand Prix victories currently rank third all-time in F1 history, while his four world championships are tied with Alain Prost for the fourth-most in history. According to ESPN, Vettel's announcement comes as his current contract with Aston Martin is set to expire at the end of the 2022 season. "The energy it takes to become one with the car and the team, to chase perfection takes focus and commitment.

The youngest driver to win a title will leave the sport at the end of the 2022 season, when his contract with Aston Martin concludes.

I love it, and every time I step in the car I love it,” he said during the May television appearance. In his retirement announcement, Vettel cited a desire to spend more time with his family and on his personal interests. Vettel won his four championships consecutively from 2010 to 2013, tying Alain Prost for the third most in Formula One history by the time he was 26.

Four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel announced his intention to retire at the end of the 2022 season, closing the book on one of the most legendary ...

He has become more outspoken in his activism in recent months, wearing shirts supporting marriage equality and taking action to curb global warming. But Vettel is more than a driver. When it comes to Formula 1, Sebastian Vettel’s name is right up there among the legends.

Sebastian Vettel has backed Haas driver Mick Schumacher to replace him at Aston Martin when he retires at the end of this season.

"We need to start to speak to Gene about it and talk through the different scenarios of what we are going to do. Schumacher currently drives for Haas but is not contracted to the team beyond the end of this year. "We did have a very, very brief chat about what might be next.

Haas' Mick Schumacher makes the short list of Formula 1 drivers who could be a fit at Aston Martin in 2023.

Haas has spent 18 months getting Schumacher to this stage and is not keen on starting from zero with another driver. But unlike Ferrari, Red Bull or Mercedes Aston Martin does not have a young driver program from which it has options to build around. It has a power unit partnership with Mercedes but, unlike Williams, that has not extended to those in the cockpit. There is no driver available who can bring the knowledge of 53 wins, four titles and 15 years of experience in leading teams to Aston Martin. Krack accepted that “the groundwork that Sebastian has done last year, and is still doing this year, is crucial” at a team that has for decades been rooted in the midfield but now has the ambition—and the finances—to fight at the front. There is also Pierre Gasly, now approaching 100 Grands Prix and a race winner, but he has a 2023 AlphaTauri contract and was firm. Ricciardo is the only other multiple race winner on the grid facing an uncertain future but both he and McLaren have been adamant that his 2023 contract with the team will be respected.

Few athletes have the good fortune of retiring before they begin to decline. Sebastian Vettel, who announced yesterday that he will retire from Formula One ...

There is admiration for his successes and amusement at his charm, and then a strange type of secondhand sadness at his failings—the sort of gross empathy that you can really only have for athletes, heroes, one and the same. But, more than anything, it will be the image of Seb after winning his fourth consecutive World Championship in India, after being booed the entire season, bearing everything that came before and everything that’s yet to come, climbing out of his car before bowing to it on his knees, the machine that carried him to victory. As for what image of Sebastian Vettel will stick with me—the 2018 German Grand Prix will, yes, and the sense memory of something slipping out from your grasp. Over the course of a long, storied career, Vettel has embodied every single part of F1. He has won and kept winning until it seemed like he might never lose again, until he did lose, and then it seemed like he would never be able to clamber back to where he once stood. Vettel, at the peak of his dominance, spent most of the 2013 season being viciously booed—a rarity in F1—until he won in India. He was a pest, annoying, arrogant. And then—you guessed it—he won the next one in 2013, clinching the championship in India with three races left in the season. In 2010 and 2012, Vettel didn’t win the championship until the last race of the season. Not that Vettel spent the entirety of his Ferrari tenure losing. Then he won the next one in 2011, and became the youngest ever to win two. If you were to pinpoint a year in the early 2010s, before hybrid engines came in and issued in a Mercedes dynasty, you would not guess that Lewis Hamilton would define their era of racing. And then he won the next one, in 2012. Vettel didn’t allow room for speculation of that sort—he became the youngest polesitter and youngest race winner in F1 history when he was 21 (Max Verstappen now holds the record for youngest race winner) while at Toro Rosso, Red Bull’s B-team. After Pierre Gasly won the Italian Grand Prix in 2020, the first Red Bull sister team win since Vettel won at the very same race 12 years ago, Vettel called Gasly and reminded him—in the midst of some of the toughest years in Gasly’s career—that the last person to do that went on to win four consecutive World Championships, one of many marks that Vettel has left on younger drivers.