LONDON, May 12 — The writing has been on the wall for Sebastian Vettel since September 2018 when Ferrari announced Charles Leclerc as his Formula One team mate. The German, who will leave the Italian team at the end of a pandemic-hit 2020 season that has yet to start, was top dog at Maranello at...
Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc at the Russian Grand Prix in Sochi, Russia, September 29, 2019. — Reuters pic
Strapped into the red car for 2019, the Monegasque — now 22 — outperformed the four-times world champion on just about every measurement. Vettel, who arrived at Maranello from Red Bull in 2015 as the replacement for Spaniard Fernando Alonso, is paid a reported annual salary of US$40 million . In 2016 he was fourth overall, without a win, and last year he finished fifth, further away than ever to bringing Ferrari their first drivers’ title since Kimi Raikkonen in 2007.
That pressure and frustration was evident in Canada last year when a time penalty dropped him from first to second and he angrily replaced the number one sign positioned post-race in front of Hamilton’s car with the number two.
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