The true passing-of-the-torch moment came at Monza, where Leclerc became the first Ferrari driver since Fernando Alonso in 2010 to win on the team’s home soil, all while Vettel had the worst race of his season, if not his career, finishing a lap down in 13th.Ī driver out of favour with the fans and with the team but still with all the pressure on his shoulders, it arguably was the worst year of Vettel’s time in F1, even though he did win the Singapore Grand Prix and took two pole positions, albeit now under a cloud of suspicion given the power unit furore of last season.Īfter the 2019 campaign finished, Ferrari signed Leclerc to an extended contract through to 2024, a clear indication they saw him as its future. Leclerc and Vettel clashed all year, although it was the young driver who was getting the results.
‘The moment’ on this day last year👌🏻 Sebastian Vettel feels he was wrongly penalised for blocking Hamilton after going wide and received a 5sec penalty, so swaps the finishing boards in Parc Ferme in Canada 2019👌🏻📷 /SDlrHqrJ86- MARK SUTTON June 9, 2020 More so now than before, Vettel made errors while under pressure from Hamilton in races in Bahrain, and most famously in Canada. While he managed to win three races in 2015, he never came close to the dominant new force in Mercedes, while 2016 was an echo of his final year with Red Bull as for the second time in three seasons he ended the campaign without a victory. The Michael Schumacher comparisons - a title-winning German in a Ferrari - inevitably followed, yet Vettel’s first two seasons in Maranello were complete write-offs. Let's go back to the beginning, and following a winless 2014 at Red Bull, after being outscored by team-mate Daniel Ricciardo, Vettel left for pastures new with Ferrari, pairing up with another world champion in Kimi Raikkonen.
How time flies.Īnd you have voted Sebastian Vettel as your Driver of the Day! #SpanishGP 🇪🇸 #F1 /s7eRGacrdv- Formula 1 August 16, 2020 On Sunday at the Circuit de Catalunya, the German was voted Driver of the Day as he finished seventh after qualifying 11th for Ferrari.
In the Spanish Grand Prix two years ago, a slow Vettel pitstop cost him a podium and gave Hamilton a 17-point championship lead as the two heavyweights continued their very close ‘fight-for-five’ world title battle.
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