Sebastian Vettel will retire at the end of the season
The German driver has announced that he will retire after the current world championship. Titled four times, he won 53 Grands Prix in his career.
Sebastian Vettel, photographed on July 9, at Spielberg.
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German driver Sebastian Vettel, four-time Formula 1 world champion, announced on Thursday that he would retire at the end of this season.
“The decision to stop F1 at the end of the year was difficult and I thought about it a lot. At the end of the year, I want to take the time to think about what I want to do next, “said Vettel, quoted in a press release from his team released before the Hungarian GP this weekend.
“As a father, I want to spend more time with my family”
“As a father, I want to spend more time with my family. Today is not about saying goodbye, but rather saying thank you to everyone, starting with the fans without whom Formula 1 could not exist.
53 wins on the clock
Vettel, 35, current driver for the Aston-Martin team, was world champion in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, then with Red Bull. Winner of 53 Grands Prix, he is second only to Briton Lewis Hamilton (103 victories) and his compatriot Michael Schumacher (91).
After moving to Ferrari from 2015 to 2020, he joined Aston Martin in 2021, without winning any races there so far. The 2021 season was difficult for the German, who had only finished 12th in the championship, Vettel currently occupies 14th place in the provisional classification with only 15 points.
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