How Good Was Sebastian Vettel In His Prime?

Deciding where Sebastian Vettel ranks among the best drivers in Formula One is a really interesting debate and one that has been talked about for years and yes, although his last years at Ferrari may not be the best, he is a driver who, in my opinion , She's in her best moment. He was the very definition of unstoppable, a driver who burst onto the scene and made drivers and fans around the world love and hate him while breaking records and getting into the conversation with the greats of Formula 1. Hey guys, what? what's going on? My name is. Aldous and in this video I'm going to talk about Sebastian Vettel and look back and talk about how

good

he was here.

This is an optimal time for people who have just started watching Formula One, maybe in recent years you can see Sebastian Vettel and I see that he is a four-time world champion, but he didn't realize how

good

a driver he really was. , especially in his

prime

, and that's what we're going to talk about in today's video, now guys, don't forget it if you do. They want to support the channel, they forget to leave a like, that subscribe button and check my social networks. Instagram and Twitter will be up there, but guys, let's get into this now, deciding where Sebastian Vettel's

prime

began and, more importantly, whether he's even still in it.

Even to this day he is still up for debate, especially after his 2019 season, however let's go back to 2006 and the beginning of his F1 history. Sebastian Vettel's name first appeared in Formula 1 in 2006, when he was given the seat on a Friday. Practice at the Turkish Grand Prix for the BMW Sauber F1 Team needless to say was a very interesting debut, on the one hand he also set the fastest time in free practice on his first outing, but on the other hand he also set a record for the fastest penalty given to a driver on debut when he was caught accelerating in the pit lane just six seconds into his Formula One debut.

Ironically, this would almost sum up the race that would follow, with an undeniable amount of speed and talent combined with a long career. River of incidents and also some poor judgment before arriving at Red Bull, he made his official race debut at the 2007 United States Grand Prix, where he replaced Robert Kibitz after his massive crash in the previous race in Canada. Once again the young German impressed and in his debut Grand Prix he ended up giving the team a point in his first race. This impressed Redbull enough that later in the season he gave him the final eight races at sister team Toro Rosso before he was then confirmed as a Toro Rosso Driver for 2008, where he would make his full formula proper on his season debut. if its speed were not already obvious. 2008 would prove to be his big breakout year and a year that would really stake his claim as the next one.

However, the beginning of the season did not start well because Toro during the first five races used his 2007 car from the previous season, which was very uncompetitive, however, after debuting his new car at the Monaco Grand Prix Vettel immediately went to work, scoring his first point of the season and going on to be one of the best midfield drivers in the remaining 13 races. He only failed to score points on four occasions and then, to cap off an already brilliant debut season, he shocked the Formula One world at the Italian Grand Prix by taking pole position during a wet qualifying and then winning the Italian Grand Prix. 2008 Italy at Monza for Toro Rosso, breaking multiple Formula One world records in the process.

Oh, and by the way, something really funny about that whole situation is that it actually meant that Sebastian Vettel at the time gave the sister team his first victory before the main team Red Bull. I actually think that's really hilarious and a bit embarrassing for Red Bull, but nonetheless a driver of Vettel's caliber wasn't going to be stuck in midfield for much longer as Red Bull announced he would be their youngster. German star who would accompany Mark Weber during the 2009 season. Now 2009 was the year in which the veterans who really established themselves as Redbull, a true leader in Formula One, came out with a competitive car capable of winning races, but, for Of course, he didn't start the season with the double diffuser, they gave Braun the head start and eventually the championship with Jenson Button, however that year it wasn't a total loss for Vettel as he beat his teammate more experienced early on and gave Redbull their first pole position and race win in China and even towards the latter part of the season produced a title fight to finish.

Secondly, although this will not be a memorable year in Vettel's career, it was 2009 that saw him mature and grow in the spotlight, he made mistakes and had incidents and in the end it was the experience and consistency of the Jetsons that which allowed him to hold on to that title, but now Vettel was ready and knew what it would take to fight for a championship. The turn of the decade saw the beginning of Vettel's true finest hour. It all worked out for Seb as he would dominate the next four years winning four drivers in a row. titles and helped Redbull win four consecutive constructors' titles, and when he finished winning championships at the end of 2013, the statistics were truly ridiculous / Vettel between 2010 and 2013, Vettel won 44% of all races with 24 wins and he took 52 percent of all poles also with 40 poles he became a four-time world champion at the age of 27 and by the end he was in the conversation for being one of the greatest of all time, but forgetting the statistics for a second why Vettel was almost unstoppable. in his prime, firstly let's get the obvious out of the way that no one can stop talking about and yes, like every dominant driver who has come before or since, he had the best kart on the grid for most of those championships.

The entire Red Bull team was a great team and with the genius of Adrian Newey at the helm of the car's design, the entire Red Bull Aero team absolutely complied with the aerodynamic regulations for that generation with some fantastic innovations such as the blown diffuser and also En the transition from Bridgestone to Pirellis tires in 2011, all of this gave Seb the car he needed to unleash his true potential and for me Red easily had the best car in 2010, 2011 and 2013, in 2012 on the other hand, I've always thought. that McLaren actually had the better car from start to finish, but the point is that red will consistently give Vettel a car good enough year after year to challenge him for the title.

Now the next reason is obvious: his speed, his raw speed was incredible, evident by the number of poles he took during that time and on a Saturday there was no one on the F1 grid who could match him and a lot of people were just happy at some races to see someone other than Vettel be on pole position, but that was how he adapted in racing and also his ability to adapt to the Pirelli tires in 2011, which also gave him a big advantage, something that his teammate Mark Webber did not understand so quickly that Vettel at certain points became so ridiculously and almost arrogantly fast that he would even try to set as many fastest laps as possible during a race just for fun with his team he always tried to control him and try to slow down to Stop him from driving too fast now it's a new toy and it's going to erase your life.

He's also very good at coming back, although we look at the four world titles and think he led from start to finish, probably sliding most of the time on his Red Bull. Let's not forget that both in 2010 and 2012 he had to win a great title. comebacks towards the end of the seasons after being 31 points down in 2010 and 44 points down in 2012 against multiple title contenders, now the next skill in Vettel's arsenal was his utter ruthlessness and unrivaled self-confidence, never He thought he was in something wrong, what kind. sounds a little familiar to me and I was never afraid to go wheel to wheel with any driver, even pushing the limit with both teammate Mark Webber and his own team.

His relationship with his teammate and the other drivers was never surprising. Sure there was respect, but you would never see Weber or Alonso giving Vettel too much credit for what he achieved against them in those days. His rivalry with Fernando is actually something that isn't talked about as much as it should, in my opinion, but his rivalry with teammate Marc Webb, on the other hand, yes, that's well documented, there were many incidents between the two. while both were casual, one that dates back even to his best days at Toro Rosso when he crashed into Webber's back under the safety car in Japan in 2007 when they became teammates, the rivalry soon began with multiple incidents both in the public and within the team between them from the front wing incident at Silverstone in 2010 to their crash together while fighting for the leadership in Turkey that same year and then finally escalating to the incident that probably caused Mark Weber not only to leave Red Bull but also Formula One forever.

The multi 21 incident in Malaysia in 2013. Now I'm sure many people know about the multi 21 incident between the two, but for those of you who were during the Malaysian Grand Prix with Webber leading and the team in a comfortable position Halfway through, his race engineer told Vettel over the team radio to basically turn everything down and just follow Webber. to the checkered flag and secure the team a comfortable half, however, Vettel had other ideas defying team orders, he fought hard against Mark Webber in a wheel-to-wheel battle and overtook him to win the race much to the dismay of his teammate. equipment. his team and everyone watching too now this is where it gets interesting because after the race Sebastian Vettel stuck to the usual PR script and said he regrets everything he did, however a few weeks later in China we could see the real mentality of a world champion if I had understood the message I would have thought about it and probably would have done the same because Marc doesn't deserve that conclusion is that I was running, I was faster, I passed him, I won now, this move basically did public to Vettel.

The number one enemy in the eyes of the drivers, the fans and everyone criticized him for his attitude and also hated the fact that he was winning like never before, he was even booed on the race podium several times that year. on the podium with you please don't do that that's not right they on a tour you know they go with a bus however despite all this despite all the hate he had to enjoy and go through, he responded like a champion winning his fourth world title in India in 2013, he also set and equaled some ridiculous Formula One world records along the way, such as becoming the youngest world champion, the youngest double, triple and quadruple world champion.

He also tied Michael Schumacher for the most wins in a single season. He then also tied Schumacher for the most consecutive wins in a single season with nine, which is ridiculous, and he also became the youngest race winner in 2008, plus so many other records that, honestly, would be the video . too long if I went through them all but basically I just know that when he was in his twenties he started rewriting the Formula One history books now as it had become normal at the time everyone, even people like Alonso, were trying to belittle and diminish his achievements by saying that it was only the Adrian Newey Red Bull combination that had won Vettel all four world titles as an example, listen carefully to what Martin Brundle said moments after Vettel became a four-time world champion to conquer the most valuable title in the world. man in Formula One standing there now I know he's not that big and I'm not trying to point fingers at Martin Brundle by the way, but it always seemed like whenever fans or pundits talked about Sebastian Vettel in those days, he never got the credit he deserved for being an absolutely unstoppable force.

Yes, Vettel was not a good guy on the track, he was ruthless, nasty and never gave up, he didn't even go against his own team's orders to benefit himself, but at the end of the day. The only thing his rivals saw was the back of his car and that famous finger that shows people exactly who the number one dog in Formula One was and to be honest guys, character wise, from my point of view Sight, the good guys in Formula One don't do it. become world champions and Sebastian Vettel, regardless of what you think of him, well, he became a four-time world champion, so I guess for me there's only one last thing to talk about: Sebastian Vettel is still at his best moment.

Well, to be honest, guys, for me, you know don. Don't get me wrong, style all the haters and all the Redbull criticswhen he went to Ferrari and showed exactly why he was a four-time world champion, but I think he came to the end of his prime sometime between 2018 and 2019 when he could. He didn't achieve everything to beat Hamilton for the title and he made quite a few mistakes under pressure and then of course he was beaten by his young teammate Sho LeClair but at the same time to me that doesn't make sense because maybe he's just one from those. drivers who perhaps peaked too early in his career, which almost sounds a little ridiculous.

I mean, the guy is a four-time world champion, but the bottom line is that, regardless of what has happened since his championship-winning years, Sebastian Vettel will always be a Formula One legend who in his prime was absolutely unbeatable, well guys, there you have it, that's my video on Sebastian Vettel. We're seeing how good he was in his prime. Now Seb is one of my favorite drivers on the grid. I love him. The guy I grew up watching Sebastian Vettel and he's a fun, cool kind of character both in and out of the car, plus he's great with the media and great with the fans and yes, certainly, like I said, one of my favorites. racing drivers of all time that lemon in the comments below guys when you think about the video and say during this era of Formula One I hope you enjoy this video and if you did don't forget to leave a Me like. subscribe button, check out my social media, Instagram and Twitter will be up and guys, I'll see you next time, bye guys.